We initially thought that these routers were part of new E and M series networking lines from Cisco, however a tipster has informed us that these new routers are actually just rebranded Linksys routers with slightly different firmware.  According to our source, the most notable improvement on these routers is a simplified hotspot set-up process, suggesting that these routers will be targeted at SMBs, not consumers.

The hardware on the Cisco M and E series products correspond to their Linksys brethren as follows:

Cisco M10 shares the hardware of the Linksys WRT160Nv3
Cisco M20 shares the hardware of the Linksys WRT310Nv2
Cisco E2000 shares the hardware of the Linksys WRT320N
Cisco E3000 shares the hardware of the Linksys WRT610Nv2

Thanks to our tipster who sent this in.

Cisco Linksys passed the E3000 router, above, through the FCC today.  The E3000 is an 802.11 a/b/g/n router with a gigabit switch.  This is a dual-band Wireless N router, with support for 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz bands.

Cisco’s FCC filing doesn’t give us much information about the device, although the label pic above suggests that the E3000’s form factor is similar to Cisco’s existing Wireless N routers.  The E3000 model number doesn’t seem to fit within any of Cisco’s existing product lines, however.