Cisco Connect Cloud is a revolutionary new way to interact with your home network and wireless devices. Cisco Connect Cloud revolutionizes the way you interact with your home network and wireless devices by providing you an easy and secure access by just using a browser.

Cisco Cloud Connect in short gives you an app on your mobile phone or tablet, which gives you access to connect to your home network anytime, anywhere with a simple touch! If you’re out for the evening and you need to make sure your family at home are viewing suitable content – Parental controls are in hand

How Does Cisco Connect Cloud Work?

• Create your Home Wireless Network
• Register at CiscoConnectCloud.com
• Download Apps and enhance your connected home experience

Which Linksys Wireless Routers are needed for Cisco Cloud Connect

Not all Linksys wireless routers work with Cisco Cloud Connect. Only the EA series routers work with Cisco Cloud Connect. Following are the top rated Linksys EA Wireless Routers:

• Linksys EA4200 v2
• Linksys EA4500. Read EA4500 Review
• Linksys EA4200
• Linksys EA3500
• Linksys EA2700
• Linksys EA3200
• Linksys EA2500

When you download Cisco Connect Cloud, you get a host of free built-in apps that give you anytime, anywhere access to your home network. A few of the built-in apps are:

1. Parental Control - Use a web browser, mobile phone or tablet to restrict access to specific web sites or block the Internet during certain times of day.
2. Guest Access – When friends and family visit home and you’re running late to get home, provide them guest internet access from apps even when yore miles away from your home network.
3. Media Prioritization - Every family now has several wireless devices – phones, tablets, laptops, TVs etc. connected to their wireless network. Don’t let your kids watching YouTube get priority over your work. Using Media Prioritization, you can manage which device gets the most bandwidth and which one the least. If you’re streaming a HD movie on your HDMI TV – give it the most bandwidth to enjoy a smooth entertainment with least lag time.
4. USB Storage - Expand the capacity and capabilities of your home network by attaching a USB storage device.

Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers give you access to a growing suite of apps that offer new ways to interact with your connected home. Innovative apps are already available and you will be able to go beyond today’s capabilities as more are introduced.

1. Block the Bad Stuff - Easily add one of three levels of protective filtering to your wireless network with the Block the Bad Stuff app.
2. HipPlay - HipPlay is a fun and easy to use universal digital media aggregator and player.
3. Gemini IP Camera Viewer - The Gemini IP Camera Viewer app works on your iPhone and offers quick and easy access to IP Camera {}M-JPEG video streams over Wi-Fi and GSM networks.
4. Twonky Video – Twonky Video app is a new way to discover interesting videos and beam them to your connected TV or devices like Apple TV.
5. Device Monitoring - The Device Monitoring app monitors devices such as game consoles, iPads and PC’s and provides real time network status.
6. Netproofer – The Netproofer app empowers users to restrict the access of specific websites on their home network.

There are several devices, which are also en-route to becoming smart! – your fridge, your microwave, your oven, your temperature control etc. As devices become smart and start to interact with the home network, Cisco Connect Cloud will provide you a future proof solution, which will enable these devices to get connected to your home network and you’ll be able to control all these devices from the touch control of a button.

Difference Between Cisco Connect and Cisco Connect Cloud

The Cisco Connect application installs on a computer connected to your home network, and home network settings can be accessed only while using that computer. Cisco Connect Cloud runs on the web and you can access it from any web browser, using a secure login account. So you can be on your home computer, your mobile phone on-the-go, or even at work, and access your home router settings and activity using Cisco Connect Cloud.

Which Devices Work with Cisco Connect Cloud

Cisco Connect Cloud for the web supports Android™ and iOS mobile phones and the iPad. The Cisco Connect Cloud mobile app supports Android and iOS phones only

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