This gives our products considerably higher performance.

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"We are already shipping commercial products today with higher performance and with the same density they claim in their research, " he said.

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New products translate quickly into higher sales figures, as do technological and performance-driven upgrades.

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Ford noted that higher costs for steel, copper, investment in future products, and inflation eroded profits, despite the strong performance.

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These providers require a migration path to a much higher performance powerline technology to meet future bandwidth demands while maintaining interoperability with their current HomePlug AV installations and future IEEE1901 products.

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