For example, as the vice president of marketing for a major cable television operator, my marketing plan relied on our engineering division making major upgrades to our cable systems.

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Business Secretary Vince Cable said he was pleased to see the creation of highly-skilled engineering jobs.

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Nortel claims its Shasta 5000 BSN for aggregated DSL or cable offers services such as network-based firewalls, virtual private networking, and traffic engineering for several thousand subscribers over a single chassis.

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Campaign group A Human Right, which is supported by the UN, has called on the Department for International Development to contribute a substantial amount to the engineering costs of connecting the island to the South Atlantic Express, a new superfast fibre optic cable being laid by South African firm eFive.

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Building a giant cable to connect Iceland with Europe would change all of that, but such a project would also be a monumental engineering feat.

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