3Com Leads Worldwide Service Provider Market in Remote Access With Nearly 40 Percent Share - Company Operations

Cambridge Telcom Report, Sept 13, 1999

3Com Corporation maintained its global leadership in the service provider access concentrator market in the second quarter of calendar year 1999, claiming nearly 40 percent of the worldwide market, the company announced Wednesday.

3Com's leadership position is confirmed in a new report from Synergy Research Group. According to the Synergy report, 3Com held a 39 percent share of the worldwide Internet service provider access concentrator market for the second quarter of 1999.

"3Com has consistently focused on providing intelligent, multiservice access solutions to some of the largest network operators in the world," said Todd Landry, vice president, product management, 3Com Carrier Systems. "Our Total Control family of multiservice access products incorporates the latest technology while ensuring a high level of investment protection for our customers. Our unique approach allows our customers to migrate easily to new services, while minimizing their total cost of ownership."

The Total Control platform is the foundation for multiservice, universal access. Today, 3Com offers customers circuit switched data/RAS, fax-over-IP, voice-over-IP, CDMA wireless, and cable access within the Total Control system. More than seven million Total Control ports are deployed with service providers worldwide.

"Most of the leading network service providers around the world use our Total Control platform for remote access, and a number of them use our platform exclusively," Landry said. "While there has been much emphasis on new IP-based service capabilities, the growth of traditional dial access services continues. Remote access is 3Com Carrier Systems' traditional business, and we continue to invest heavily in new technologies and features as this market expands."

3Com's award-winning Total Control multiservice access platform is designed for service reliability, using redundant power supplies and modular application cards to prevent a single point of failure. In addition, its modular architecture supports hot-swapping of interface and application cards so that the system remains live and online, minimizing network downtime.

Unlike many competitors' products, which are hard-wired and use specialized chipsets requiring network service providers to dedicate equipment to specific services, 3Com's Total Control platform uses a generalized processor architecture. This allows new capabilities to be introduced via software upgrades, making it easy to migrate from technology to technology. 3Com has also pursued open systems, standardization and interoperability, all critical factors for the widescale deployment of new technology. This inherent investment protection in the architectural design of the Total Control platform is a significant business cost advantage for customers.

With approximately 300 million customers worldwide, 3Com Corporation connects more people to information in more ways than any other networking company. 3Com delivers innovative information access products and network system solutions to enterprises, small businesses, carriers and network service providers, PC OEMs and consumers. 3Com - More connected. - For further information, visit 3Com's World Wide Web site at http://www.3com.com, or press site at http://www.3com.com/pressbox.>

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