Spotlight: Cisco to Enter Cable-Networking Market

San Jose-based Cisco Systems Inc., looking for new markets, said it will make the networking gear required by cable television operators to pipe information from the Internet to consumers’ computers. The world’s biggest maker of networking equipment has vowed to enter and become the biggest player in all niches of the computer-networking business. The move reflects Cisco’s growing interest in cable modems, a technology that is beginning to take off.