Users Cry Foul After 3Com Ditches Switches
3Com Corp. customers were blindsided last week by the company's plan to kill off its large enterprise switches.
3Com Corp. customers were blindsided last week by the company's plan to kill off its large enterprise switches.
In an effort to get its renewed focus on small/midsize businesses, service providers and home networking off to a good start, 3Com Corp. last week announced a slew of acquisitions, investments, alliances and new products.
Cisco Systems Inc. this week is expected to significantly expand its voice/data convergence portfolio with 10 new products, including some designed to scale LAN telephony environments to tens of thousands of users.
A bug has cropped up in Cisco Systems Inc.'s firewall products that could allow unauthorized network access.
In an effort to focus on new high-growth markets, 3Com is leaving the large enterprise LAN/WAN (local area network/wide area network) and analog modem businesses.
Cisco Systems Inc. this week will announce an IP Multicast initiative that includes a $100 million investment to help kick-start the market.
Users hoping to see Nortel Networks' next-generation Layer 3 backbone switch this month will have to wait a little longer because the company has delayed delivery again. . . . This time until the second quarter.
Having recently spun off part of its Palm operations, 3Com may have other significant restructuring plans in the works that could have a more dramatic effect on its enterprise customer base.
In an effort to focus on new high-growth markets, 3Com Corp. is leaving the large enterprise LAN/WAN (local area network/wide area network) and analog modem businesses.
Having recently spun off part of its Palm operations, 3Com Corp. may have other, more significant restructuring plans in the works.
Cisco Systems Inc. this week announced products designed to provide quick delivery of Web and other Internet content across a network.
Cabletron Systems' recently announced convergence strategy varies little from the plans outlined by senior executives last fall.
A security problem has cropped up in Foundry Networks Inc.'s ServerIron switches that make the devices susceptible to denial-of-service attacks.
As if enterprise customers haven't heard enough about terabit router startups and how their equipment will foster a new generation of data services . . . well, get ready to listen again.
Cabletron Systems Inc. customers are generally upbeat about the company's plans to split up, noting that new products and technologies may now come to market sooner.