Craig Hubbard

Growth of networking technologies in 2002 was less than stellar but 2003 has seen a modest return to strength by most, driven by the business needs of customers and aided by the evangelizing of vendors. Led by sales of wireless LANs and IP telephony, most technologies have seen improvement in the first half of this year, with high-end switches and routers showing a less formidable drive, while the picture for Web services remains uncertain.