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Jeff Snell began Systech Systems nearly four years ago in an unused, eight-foot by 11-foot bedroom of his Raleigh apartment.
"I did everything, including take out the garbage," explains Snell, who created the company as a computer systems integration firm and then guided it toward other horizons.
Those horizons included networking solutions and, finally, in a rush toward the Internet, web design, Internet service and e-commerce solutions.
But within the last six months, Snell took another change of direction. He developed a partnership with Santa Clara, Calif. giant Covad Communications Group to offer digital subscriber line (DSL) services in the Triangle.
"DSL has a long way to go and, in my opinion, it got off to a rocky start," says Snell. "The companies providing backbone DSL service didn't know what they were doing. What we're about is offering copper and fiber solutions that don't cost $1,000 a line."
Covad Communications, which hit the Triangle market in July, is...