Q: In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.
Sentence 1:In the mean time some operators went off and created an alternative , Ethernet based IX , SOL - IX . Sentence 2:However , Netnod managed to get their 8 customers quite fast and built out Gigabit Ethernet at all cities .
A:
however