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Over the past month or so we’ve seen several, seemingly new Cisco routers pass through the FCC.  These included the E2000 and E3000 dual-band wireless N routers, as well as the M10 and M20 wireless N models.

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.

Last week Cisco Linksys passed their M10 wireless-N router through the FCC, and yesterday the company followed up with the M20.  The device offers 802.11 b/g/n connectivity as well as a gigabit switch (no word on how many ports).  Test reports for the device also suggest that the M20 rocks a Broadcom processor under its hood.

We still don’t know much about the M-series networking line from Cisco Linksys.  It appears that this is a consumer-focused line, but we have no idea on pricing or availability.