21.  Levine, known for his military-style antics and quirky management, leaves at a critical time for the once-hot networking company.

22.  Montgomery Securities analyst Al Tobia notes that Cabletron was the only big networking company not to revise its fourth quarter estimates downward.

23.  Networking companies he owned also took a hit.

24.  New Jersey-based optical networking company Tellium is one of the only telecom start-ups to go public this year.

25.  Novell Inc. shares skyrocketed on reports that International Business Machines Corp. was interested in acquiring the networking company.

26.  One of those two is full of communications stocks, telephone and networking companies.

27.  Other networking companies also fell.

28.  Other networking companies also rose.

29.  Other networking companies declined as well.

30.  Other networking companies have moved to establish themselves in the gigabit Ethernet market.