Sentence examples for internet gear from inspiring English sources

Customers of Cisco Systems, the world's biggest maker of internet gear, are taking longer to make decisions, according to John Chambers, the company's boss.

Cisco is seeking more orders from American regional phone companies as corporations spend less on Internet gear such as routers and switches.

The contractor, Alan Gross, 63, has been jailed since Dec. 3, 2009, serving a 15-year sentence for providing Internet gear to Cubans under a United States program that Cuba views as subversive.

Alcatel, the world's largest provider of broadband Internet gear, said the French government held the decision on the future of the military contractor Thales, after a report that Alcatel is considering a bid.

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.

[World Business, Section W.] 2 Companies to Make Internet Gear Linksys and Netgear, providers of home networking equipment, are expected to announce that they are entering the business of making gear used to place telephone calls over the Internet, according to industry executives.

Besides Cisco and Avaya (a Lucent Technologies spinoff) companies that produce Internet telephony gear include Alcatel, Mitel, Nortel, Siemens and 3Com.

Juniper Networks, which makes Internet communications gear, said yesterday that it had agreed to acquire Pacific Broadband Communications for $200 million in stock.

SAN FRANCISCO — Cisco, the maker of Internet routing gear, customized its technology to help China track members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week by members of the movement.

There is certainly no bigger enemy of Cisco than Lucent, the former equipment arm of AT&T that has stumbled recently, even as Cisco, the No. 1 maker of Internet communications gear, has become one of the world's most valuable companies.

The high-speed Internet connection gear (dish, PC card,software and satellite decoder) retails for around $700.