And some analysts recommend that investors also keep tabs on those REIT's that are busy rolling out new high-speed, high-bandwidth telecommunications and Internet services for their tenants.
Frontline invested in a number of Internet or communications companies, including OnSite Access, which was formed to wire office buildings for high speed telecommunications, and RealtyIQ, a real estate transactions reporting company, and 11 others, many of them dot-coms.
"We expect companies from several industries–high tech, telecommunications, airlines and public utilities to be heavily staffed during the calendar rollover to safeguard internal and international operations".
The comb-like frequency bands may be useful for the designing of optical switches, optical narrowband filters, high capacity telecommunications, and multichannel filters, etc.
But as Naujokas explains, the communications feature that is at the heart of Java its web enabled capabilities are essentally irrelevant in an America where universal high quality telecommunications is a given.
Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn noted that, "as far back as the 1970s, Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system.
In addition, he said, the presence of the high-tech companies meant that there was a high-capacity telecommunications infrastructure already installed in the area, which is important to printers who now receive much of their source material as electronic files over the Internet.
The demand was highest in telecommunications and pharmaceuticals, as well as among employers in the Southwest.
One is PMC-Sierra, a British Columbia maker of semiconductors used in high-speed telecommunications lines.
So how has a humble mechanical device managed to get a foot in the door of high-performance telecommunications?
