While the pace of change in network technology continues to increase, global deregulation of telecommunications has allowed more service providers to compete for data, voice, and video network services. Only companies who have designed their network infrastructures with these factors in mind will be able to benefit from the lower prices caused by increased competition and protect themselves from "technology lockout" in the future.Cisco offers its new uplink module that best suits current bandwidth requirements while ensuring an easy migration path. This dual port 100BaseFX MMF uplink module for Supervisor III provides flexibility and scalability.