In a combination that would joint two companies in the cable television infrastructure sector, SeaChange is reportedly in talks to be acquired by Arris Group.
Every node in the enterprise and metro will have to switch at 10 Gbps to handle the seachange from narrowband voice and slow data applications to various forms of full-motion video.
Paul Lunn, founder of SeaChange, the company that has developed the Shark Shield, said the device worked by attacking a shark's nervous system, and it worked on sharks with the strongest of charges.