Cisco Challenges Sonos in Wireless Home Audio

By Rob Enderle
February 18th, 2009

I've been spending the last week playing World of Warcraft on my new Mitsubishi 60-inch TV, and moving music around the home. We'll talk about the TV experience in a future post, but I've been covering products that pretend to move media around the home for some time, and most turn out to be really disappointing. The biggest problem, for some reason, is the concept of a “party mode.” This is when you have multiple speaker systems playing the same song. Your parents and grandparents likely could do this in audio systems they had in their homes, why is it so difficult for anyone else to make this work?

Up until recently, only one affordable system that I have tested would do this, and that was Sonos, which is the benchmark against which I compare everyone else. Well, it turns out, Cisco's ...

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