All those bytes and gigs need to be routed the right way
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Sitting in a room where two rotating cylinder lenses track you and project a blown-up high definition image of you to your colleague sitting in Jordan, and vice versa, may be disconcerting for any number of reasons, but for Hani Raad, general manager for the Levant region at networking giant Cisco, it is a time saving routine and just another day of business meetings conducted over Internet Protocol (IP) telephony. According to Raad, while products as state of the art and futuristic as the IP telecommunications have somewhat of a fan base among certain business segments in Lebanon, the country is missing a sizeable market for, and investment in, the more mundane market of networking infrastructure. Routers, modems, switches and fiber optic cables are certainly one of the less hyped lines of business, but they do make up the backbone of the internet, which is not of negligible relevance to a
