San Jose (California): Hoping to capture a larger slice of the small-business market, Cisco Systems Inc is launching a bundled offering that will combine data, Internet telephone and other services in a single platform for companies with fewer than 100 employees.
The service, Linksys One will be priced on a per-seat basis. It will be sold through resellers and hosted by service providers, such as MCI Inc and others.
It's expected to be available regionally in the next few months, with full US deployment by next summer.
"The average small business would pay $62 per seat per month, which is right in line with what they're paying today just for voice," said Marthin De Beer, general manager of the Linksys Small Business Systems Business Unit at Cisco.
"They will effectively get voice, video, data and security all for the price of voice," added De Beer.
Linksys One is being described as Cisco's seventh "advanced technology" - a name the company applies to businesses that are expected to generate at least $1 billion in annual sales over the next five to seven years.
The others - wireless, security, home networking, optical, Internet telephony and storage - have been growing at a faster rate than Cisco's traditional business of selling routers and switches that direct traffic over the Internet and other networks.
The technologies also are seen as a way to drive up demand for Cisco's high-end gear.
Linksys One is expected to do exactly that, De Beer said.
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