Cisco is pairing its instant technologies leadership with Flip Video’s simplicity-in-design technique to launch Valet™ — a breakthrough new item line that creates home instant simple and accessible for everybody. Valet is created to transform how families use the web within their homes so they are able to take pleasure in the freedom of wireless access without having the traditional frustration and complexity of setting up a home network.
“Valet is home wireless made easy,” said Jonathan Kaplan, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Customer Products. “With complementary backgrounds and expertise, our Cisco and Flip teams have combined forces to change the rules for house wireless with an item line that empowers buyers to very easily set up, enjoy and manage all of their wireless products anywhere in their houses.”
Untapped House Wireless Market
Whilst customer demand for wireless products is on the rise having a tremendous array of new products in the market, research from IDC(1) reveals that only one-third of US houses are currently set up for wireless use. This surprisingly slow adoption of home instant is largely due to the complexity of existing offerings that are too technical for that average customer to install and manage on their personal. At the exact same time, the demand for wireless-enabled items – for example mobile phones, gaming methods, and music players – is extremely strong according to ABI Investigation information that reports a lot more than 264 million of these kinds of products shipped worldwide in 2009.
“Consumers have felt powerless and frustrated with the whole process of home wireless, but with Valet we are tearing down the walls and opening it up to everyone,” added Kaplan. “The market for wireless-enabled products is exploding and now mainstream customers will be able to take full benefit of all of the new opportunities.”
Quick Set-Up and Simple Management
Valet is the very first instant item line to create it easy for anyone to create and handle their own home wireless network. Consumers merely insert the included Simple Set up Crucial right into a USB port within their PC or Mac and also the Cisco Connect software program takes over. Unlike other instant products that require 20 to 30 complex actions to create a single computer, Cisco Connect requires you through three actions from begin to finish. The Simple Setup Crucial retains all setup information and could be very easily inserted into additional house computer systems to seamlessly add them to the home’s instant network.
Personalized Wireless Experience
Once set up, Valet gives consumers a simple method to manage their family’s house instant encounter. The included Cisco Connect software program makes it easy to: 1) add additional devices towards the network, 2) set parental controls, three) provide Internet access for guests on a separate guest network and 4) customize personal security settings for example passwords.
Valet also provides a brand new level of control for parents with simple tools to handle their family’s online experience. Valet’s Cisco Connect software lets parents easily specify controls on the fly, so they can change web usage for particular days and times of the week, or even for temporary periods. For instance, if teens are spending as well significantly time on social networks or gaming systems, mother and father can modify their wireless access so that they can’t go online right after 9:00 pm on weeknights. Internet entry for every individual device connected to some Valet – from a computer, to a gaming system, to some smartphone – can be individually controlled or changed as required for that particular child or teen, including blocking inappropriate web content.
In addition, Valet makes it easy to set up guest instant access when pals or family come to visit. Having a totally separate instant connection, guests can use their laptops or mobile phones close to the house, while the primary Valet house network remains secure and private.