Cisco's gateway, which underwent a trial in Honolulu, functions similarly but is more hardware-based, complementing its line of network routing equipment and voice-over-IP telephony.
The Internet, by contrast, is a connectionless network designed for routing packets of data.
"There's a big bucket of possibilities, " a spokesman told me - including a sale, downsizing or re-routing the network.
In 1988, Pierre Mauroy, the city's mayor and a powerful figure in France's Socialist Party, engineered the routing of a new network of domestic and international high-speed train services through Lille and used that coup to turn the city into a logistics and service hub.
Adoption has been even stronger in businesses, where corporations can replace their expensive phone networks and save money routing calls over their computer network.
On Monday, Cisco announced the development of the Nexus 7000, a network switch that's capable of routing 15 terabits of data per second--the equivalent of moving the entire contents of Wikipedia in a hundredth of a second, or downloading every movie available on Netflix (nasdaq: NFLX - news - people ) in about 40 seconds.
Even with its emerging network, the Dash Express is surprisingly effective at routing around known trouble spots on the fly.
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Last year Morton, 52, obtained his own CCIE certificate in routing and switching, and followed up with his CCIE in network security earlier this year.
Under the new system, software will analyze the entire Norfolk network every hour and, to keep traffic flowing efficiently, suggest changes in speed, routing and train meeting places.
This new breed of company is leveraging its relationships with the payment networks and handling the behind-the-scenes routing to ensure that transactions are processed through the cheapest path, which is often the debit network.
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