Cisco Systems Launches the Connected Home in Second Life

John Chambers, CEO and Chairman of Cisco is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show tomorrow.  His speech will focus on the “connected home,” which is one of the areas Cisco has targeted as a key growth area in the coming years.

To coincide with the topic and as an element of their consumer strategy, Cisco is also launching The Connected Home in Second Life – and you are invited to a reception there tomorrow, at 4:00 p.m. PST/SLT at Cisco Island.

Cisco, Linksys and Scientific Atlanta (an IPTV Cisco company) are joining forces to discuss Cisco’s consumer vision and how “the network” is increasingly at the center of the consumer revolution.

The Second Life Connected Home is a virtual demonstration of this type of connectivity, i.e. being able to access the cental media library from any room, and “smart picture frames” that allow you to change the picture by pulling images in from a web server or local network.

Undoubtedly we’ll be hearing more on this from Cisco.

Cisco and Linksys are also giving away [real] Linksys iPhones in Second Life each day of the CES show which runs today through January 11. (The iPhone integrates web-based multimedia with VoIP services, Skype, Yahoo Messenger and more.)

Attend the reception and visit the Connected Home here.

January 8, 2007