"At this point, we're primarily focused on the safety and security of our employees, " said Mary Lou Ambrus, VP for external communications and infrastructure at Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill, N.

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"Once vendors support more protocols, acceptance of Layer 3 switching should increase dramatically, " said Eric Pylko, global infrastructure coordinator at Eastman-Kodak Corp. in Rochester, N.

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The larger n is, the more resources are wasted on redundant infrastructure.

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