11.   Through four acquisitions in the past year, the San Jose, California-based company has bought expertise in the wide-area networking technology.

12.   Yet Cisco, they say, moved to make sure that its data routers adopted networking technology that could communicate with different kinds of computers and over the Internet.

13.   Ekasit said it is suitable for small business owners who have limited time or a lack of technical expertise to implement networking technology in their offices.