November 19, 2005

Cisco Buys Scientific-Atlanta

Cisco announced on Friday it has acquired Scientific-Atlanta for $6.9 billion. Let's hope this means our future cable boxes will have better user interfaces, features, and crash much less. Cable boxes in general from my experience have been a total disaster.

Cable TV set-top boxes could become the primary conduit for consumers to receive video programing, ranging from television and on-demand movies to videogames and Internet content. "The infrastructure of the future must allow consumers to personalize data, voice and video," Cisco Chief Executive John Chambers said in a conference call with analysts.