Simple Start enables one-click access to the router dashboard, making it easy to configure a media server, turn on parental controls or troubleshoot from a mobile device.
Attaching appliances to a power socket via a smart plug containing sensors and a ZigBee transceiver allows information about the appliances' power consumption to be beamed automatically to a broadband router within the home, and thence to a web server located elsewhere.
Both consisted of two parts, a client component running on the Cisco 819 router designed to handle machine to machine (M2M) communications and server based software which handles various tasks, such as data analytics.
One aspect of the new home router can help you eliminate it: The device has a built-in print server that allows more than one computer to share a single printer.