The U.S. Attorney's Office now blames six ex-Anicom executives for sinking the former Rosemont, Ill. distributor of cable, wire, networking and fiber-optic parts.

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Remember those rumors that the networking giant was shopping around its Scientific Atlanta cable set-top box business?

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Further complicating matters is the demand for low "latency, " the networking term for how long it takes information to travel across the cable.

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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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Because no electrical reconfiguring or rewiring is necessary, networking can be delivered to remote areas of a house without expensive and inconvenient drilling and cable-laying.

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From wireless home networking and entertainment, to mobile accessories, energy management, and a broad USB and cable mix, Belkin products connect the dots between people and the things they love.

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The home-networking method with the most steam behind it is wireless, because it avoids the considerable hassle of running network cable through walls.

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