Although such integrators sometimes sell equipment from multiple vendors, they are specially trained to sell proprietary gear and service programs.
Should 3Com focus on building Internet gear for service providers, the fastest-growing part of the communications-equipment market, the company would have better growth prospects than the current version of 3Com.
The company has already provided gear and service to more than 85percentt of major cities that have adopted body cameras, and the opportunities seem likely to keep growing.
Konami's Metal Gear Online service for the PlayStation 2 closed in Japan on December 26 , 2006 followed by in North America on April 2, 2007 and in Europe on October 30, 2007, although a fan community has revived it by emulating the servers.
Authorities are increasingly insisting that telecoms gear (and services like Skype) should allow for the lawful interception of communications.
Of course, it helps that there are so many contractors and suppliers who lobby for spies to buy more of their gear and services.
In Korea, US design group Continuum finds that its Seoul office has one in 10 projects geared to service design, particularly in retail.
Particularly in the fast-growing markets for optical and Internet gear, telecoms-service providers increasingly prefer to buy the best products they can find from firms such as Ciena and Juniper Networks, for example—and then to integrate them in-house.
The worldwide server industry grew 12percentt in total revenue, to $13.4 billion in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, Gartner said, adding to evidence that customers are starting to spend more on computers, software and related gear and services.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (Reuters) — The Pentagon announced tentative plans on Wednesday to sell surplus P-3C Orion submarine-hunting aircraft and air-defense missiles to Taiwan in deals potentially worth more than $2.23 billion, including related gear and services.
