Instead, a lot of the excitement is about delivering high-speed Internet service and even telephone calls using the cable industry's " broadband communications pipe, " otherwise known as the coaxial cable lines that pass almost all of the nation's homes.
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As competition increases in every sector of the communications industry, established companies like SBC and AT & AMP; T are trying to de-emphasize the sale of raw communications pipes and offer instead more complex services that can carry richer profits.
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He recently described the deployable command post as " containers of communications gear, very large communications pipes that we're able to put in the back of an airplane, fly it a long ways, land it on the ground and then set up a command and control complex ."
