I had mentioned Cisco's emphasis on the consumer market at the C-Scape event. I will say that one disappointment from the event was a lack of news regarding what the Scientific-Atlanta side of the business is doing. It seemed like Cisco talked headend, edge, and consumer retail products more than anything else and left out any real discussion on service provider CPE trends. Maybe they'll rectify that at CES.

According to a couple of news articles today, the first iteration of Cisco's consumer entertainment strategy will be a multi-room wireless music system. I had the chance to see this at C-Scape, and it is a nicely-designed system. Obviously, Cisco's goals are to get more bits and bytes of data and video through networks, so this is definitely a foundational solution for some future efforts aimed at getting more products network-connected and accessing content stored locally inside the home and distributed over a variety of access networks.