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Its new access gear, called the OneStream Broadband Access Server, is targeted at the same market where Redback Networks rbak has found huge success.
Cisco will include the technology in its access gear and has lined up a list of partners to help speed its adoption.
For months a rumor has circulated about the company acquiring Ascend Communications asnd, the billion-dollar maker of IP access gear with a strong presence among Internet service providers.
It's no surprise Breezecom, which reported $45 million in sales over the last 12 months, says its biggest growth is in providing wireless Internet access gear.
At the same time Ascend Communications, the biggest competitor to both in the business of selling access gear to the Internet service providers and carriers, bought Cascade.
"It completes the transformation cycle we began with the Palm [spinoff]." The company now will focus on two distinct businesses: making inexpensive networking gear for consumers and small businesses and selling wireless and broadband access gear to Internet service providers.
In exchange for a service agreement, Northpoint supplies the customer with Copper Mountain access gear that ties into the concentrators the company has already installed in a particular central office.
Sales of Internet access gear that Cisco sells to service providers and large businesses grew a whopping 236% in the fiscal first quarter ended Oct. 30, according to an amended quarterly report the company filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Thanks to the DMTF, a packet can start out on a network run by Cisco routers, travel over remote access gear made by Lucent Technologies and end up on a Nortel Networks'.
Lucent Technologies, based in Murray Hill, N.J., said it would co-brand and market Copper Mountain's products as the heart of its line of broadband Internet access gear for businesses; and 3Com, of Santa Clara, Calif., hailed a strategic alliance with the company to build a new line of Copper Mountain-based gear for the customer premises equipment (CPE) side of the market.
