Packet Design's engineers plan to infuse new software into this layer of the network in six months.

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Itching to get back to startups, she left Cisco in April and joined Carrico to form Packet Design.

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Packet Design was set up to focus on Wi-Fi and other basic networking issues while avoiding such big-company hassles as having to choreograph quarterly earnings.

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They were pleased to hear Tory health spokesman Jackson Carlaw reassure them it's not their fault that people choose to be unhealthy, while he committed the Scottish Tories to opposing their Westminster colleagues on proposed moves to standard and plain cigarette packet design.

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Thanks to advances in chip design and computational throughput, a typical SoC today contains multiple cores to deliver extremely high levels of packet processing, security functions, signal processing, programmability and more.

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