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.

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Machines inside of your network can be partially concealed through IP masquerading (the version of Network Address Translation most used in Linux).

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There are a variety of problems associated with masking IPv4 address space behind network address translation technologies, especially Large Scale NAT (LSN) or Carrier Grade NAT (CGN).

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However, ISPs have so widely deployed network address translation (NAT) devices, which coordinate multiple intranet addresses through a single Internet address, that they're in no hurry to move to IPv6.

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Usage will not incur any transmission fee since the translation process does not require network connection.

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As the group, the African Youth Initiative Network, did a live translation of the film narrative into the local Luo dialect, an estimated 35, 000 people began jeering.

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