Word: gigabits
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Krispy Kreme's doughnuts have outperformed microchips, routers and 10-gigabit lasers since the Winston-Salem, N.C., chain went public at $21 a share last April--just as the NASDAQ started its swoon. The company has become so hot since the offering that it plans to quit NASDAQ in May for the industrial-age New York Stock Exchange...
...souped-up computers that sort the streams of information packets that whiz throughout the Internet. As it happened, routers turned out to be the indispensable heavy artillery of the digital revolution. As the Internet has grown, so too have the demands for bigger, faster, better routers. Today, Cisco manufactures gigabit routers that can handle a billion bits of information a second. Coming soon, as bandwidth requirements increase and Internet traffic doubles every 100 days--and as we consumers increasingly upload and download video, voice, music and data--Cisco will be ready with terabit (trillion bit) routers and more...