Economic conditions have changed the operating landscape for government and educational organizations. Networking technology offers an opportunity to provide better service with lower taxpayer cost. A modern, converged network utilizes advanced optical and Ethernet technologies to form a highly flexible and scalable infrastructure capable of delivering many emerging applications and ready to scale far into the future.
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