Ian, Cisco has their feet in every industry now since the computer geeks like them so much. They are doing a very good job of practically destroying the telecommunications industry and making billions in the process. They might make good network hardware (I don't disagree), but the rest of their products are cheap Chinese-made junk.
Well you gotta figure, Cisco owns SA, SA technically makes the equipment (which I believe is made in Mexico.) What I heard is they want to merge the lines, which could go either way, SA-branded Motorola cable boxes that work, or Motorola-branded SAs that are junk. And in case anyone's wondering, I'm comparing my family's current and past Motorola/GI boxes to my cable-engineer-uncle's current 4 SA boxes, which are all "experimentals" from Comcast. His boxes always work fine, while ours get swapped about every two years.
Just my 2ยข
Ian A.
