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3Com's share was about 2.6% of the US$796 million worldwide market in the third quarter. 3Com hopes the price/performance of its OSN/MSR offering can begin to dent Cisco's dominance. The company says it can offer in some cases more than twice the raw throughput of an ISR at $2,000 to $4,000 less cost.
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A proposed $3 billion cash deal between 3Com, Bain Capital and China's Huawei has been deemed a legitimate threat to U.S. national security, according to a report by Bill Gertz in the Washington Times. Tags: U.S., China, Huawei Technologies, 3Com Corp., National Security, Gertz, Mergers & Acquisitions, Intrusion Prevention, Telephony, Investment, Finance, Security, Networking, Ryan Naraine Blog posts 2007-12-03
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"In building the new 3Com switch network, MHUSD had concerns about the overall security for school data," said David Ricci. "To address these issues and prevent potential breaches, PWT-IT designed the network with various security features that enable the school to closely regulate the traffic on their network. The network design ... aids in the prioritization of application flow, enabling performance control for each application that resides on the network."
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With this announcement, 3Com has both aggressively positioned itself in the standards battle, and, in spelling out terms ahead of time, sought to quell any angry, standard-threatening backlash by competitors. "If they'd established the license agreement with this guy then not put [the terms] on the table, all the other vendors would have screamed bloody murder and done everything they could to hold up the standards process," said IDC Research analyst Abner Germanow. "[This] basically clears that roadblock." Germanow ... says that the company has allied with the right man, Townshend, who he says owns the core 56-Kbps intellectual property.
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In the server Network interface card business, the more lucrative part of the NIC business, 3Com remained second in market share, after Intel. 3Com never managed to beat Intel with its own products or even with joint ventures with Broadcom. It started developing Gigabit Ethernet cards in-house but later scrapped the plans. Later, it formed a joint venture with Broadcom, where Broadcom would develop the main ASIC component and the NIC would be 3Com branded. The venture fell apart some time later and 3Com no longer had the talent to pursue Gigabit Ethernet on its own.
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Strategically positioning itself for a market with or without a 56K standard, 3Com directed the spotlight to one Brent Townshend, president of Townshend Computer Tools and an associate professor at Stanford University. Townshend, the company says "conceived the original idea for how these new 56-Kbps modems operate." Townshend's inventions are basic to any 56-Kbps modem protocol that might be adopted, 3Com argues. And now, the suddenly beknighted Townshend is with them.
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