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by ZDNet Author  |  July 19, 2006 11:36am PDT  |  Image 6 of 10

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Cisco senior vice president and chief development officer Charles Giancarlo speaking during the New Growth Opportunities in Computing and Communications session at MIT's September 2005 Emerging Technologies Conference. Giancarlo talked about how today's switches are operating at the same speed as the computer's backplane. The next logical conclusion, of course: replace the computer's backplane with the switch, thereby making the computer's bus and the network's bus one in the same.

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