1.   As for Adaptive, the company already sells low-speed powerline networking gear used in commerce and industry.

2.   As its product line broadened through acquisitions, the company became a one-stop shop for networking gear.

3.   All these companies are trying to create one-stop shops for networking gear.

4.   But with the economy slowing, phone companies and big corporations are ramping down their spending on the kinds of networking gear Cisco and others make.

5.   Cisco is dying to share it with other companies, because it requires a lot of networking gear, which Cisco happens to sell.

6.   Company executives dismissed the declines as a blip that came because several Bell companies delayed big purchases of networking gear until next year.

7.   It will be the first time a chief executive from a maker of computer networking gear has delivered a keynote at the consumer-oriented show.

8.   The company introduced telecommunications products and said that it intended to acquire at least one smaller company that could help it offer a full line of networking gear.

9.   The maker of networking gear released its financial report after the market closed.