This capability actually allows us to do software upgrades immediately without production downtime or waiting until a scheduled maintenance window.

We estimate that Cisco IOS Software Modularity will reduce the time required to upgrade software on our company's more than 60 Catalyst 6500s from six weeks, given the need for planned outages, which in our case could only occur on the weekends, to less than six hours.

Upgrading our network with ECI's solutions will give us the bandwidth capacity to address the very strong demand for DSL services and the growth of applications like gaming that require high bandwidth.

Upgrading our network with ECIs solutions [provider] will give us the bandwidth capacity to address the very strong demand for digital subscriber line services and the growth of applications like gaming that require high bandwidth.

Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.

It's hard for companies to compete and find software engineers.