The problem with this strategy, however, is that Cisco end up paying top prices for Net Speed and Growth Networks acquired at the peak of the high-tech bubble.
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Over the period 1993-2000, Cisco acquired seventy companies, including Cresendo Communications (1993), Newport Systems Solutions (1994), Network Translation (1995), Netsys Technologies (1996), Net Speed (1998), and Growth Networks (1999), etc.
Multiple mobile phones were found in 89% of nuclear families and 66% had a high-speed net connection.
Communities that are keen to obtain fibre-based broadband are being asked to publicly declare their desire for high-speed net access.
Many of Sky's set-top boxes have a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) port on the back that can link to a high-speed net service.
Compaq also announced its new Triple Play broadband Internet access program, which offers customers a choice of three high-speed Net access options: cable modem, DSL, and satellite.
However, like many areas around the world the region is grappling with how to deliver high-speed net access to rural areas where the market is reluctant to go.
To be sure, Microsoft is spending money to develop high-speed Net services and content in Asia (it is teamed with Hong Kong's major phone company on a broadband portal).
The UK Government is aiming to make the UK one of the most competitive broadband markets in Europe, with more people connecting to high-speed net than in Germany and France.
It found that 2003 was a good year for consumers, with competition driving down the cost of a high-speed net connection over the phone line via ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line).
The inquiry by the select committee, chaired by Labour MP Martin O'Neill, has been set up to examine the progress of high-speed net roll-out across Britain, via phone lines, cable and satellite.
To try to make up for the time lag, the two European companies have set up research offices in Japan and routinely conduct market surveys to understand what makes i-mode tick and, by extension, how consumers might react to high-speed Net access from their phones.
Once they have access, companies will be able to offer their own brand high-speed ADSL net surfing services.
No team can deliver the ball from their own end to the back of the opponent's net so often with the speed of the Germans.
Its technology has been designed to give people high speed access to the net over relatively long distances.
Fund manager Rajiv Kaul has focused on a handful of relatively new companies, including high-speed router maker Juniper Net (nasdaq: JUNI) at 8.98% of holdings, semiconductor manufacturer JDS Uniphase (nasdaq: JDSU - news - people) at 6.09% and optical networking vendor Sycamore Networks (nasdaq: SCMR - news - people) at 3.14%.
Contrary to the assertion in the play Speed-the-Plow, there is such a thing as net income, and someone in Hollywood cares about it.
Net neutrality is seen as central to the government's broadband plan to provide high speed access to every citizen by 2020.
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The net effect is about 12 to 54 percent faster game performance than NVIDIA's current mobile speed champion, the GTX 680M, and up to four times the general computing prowess in OpenCL. The 8970M is more than up to the task of powering up to 4K in one screen, and it can handle up to six screens if there are enough ports.
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