Despite falling prices for high-speed bandwidth and wireless service, telecom budgets keep growing because of increased usage and new services such as virtual private networks, voice-mail storage and Web hosting.

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It works over the open internet and streams using a high-speed codec developed by Cavium Networks that needs only 350kb of bandwidth to function.

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Ten years later, unlimited bandwidth has yet to arrive and the market for high-speed communications chips is dominated by MicroUnity rival Broadcom.

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