Dual-n band wireless router by Cisco

MUMBAI, INDIA: Cisco announced its first simultaneous dual-n band router for the Indian market. The router works with any DSL or cable broadband connection and offers a great entertainment experience when streaming video and music around the home.

The networking is designed to allow consumers to utilize both the 2.4GHz wireless spectrum and the wider, less crowded 5GHz wireless spectrum. The 2.4GHz spectrum allows older network devices like print servers, cameras or older notebooks and PCs to access the network.

The Linksys by Cisco WRT610N comes with Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) support. WPS is an optional certification program from the Wi-Fi Alliance that is designed to make devices on wireless local area networks more secure and to make the set up as easy as possible. The WRT610N features a button that enables consumers to add additional devices to their network by simply pushing it and the corresponding button on the other certified product.

Suresh Balasubramanian, National Sales Director—Consumer Business Group, Cisco India, said, “There are products in the market that are positioned as dual-band that allow access to only one band at a time or lose transmission speeds when both bands are in use. The Linksys by Cisco WRT610N is a dual-n band broadband router that is designed to support simultaneous, separate wireless and radio bands. As we foresee consumers starting to use the 5GHz spectrum for their multimedia devices, it becomes more important to have access to the full capabilities of both bands.”