Few clarifications as I understood it (again, from the conference call) Thus spake Nicolas St-Pierre
3Com is shedding Netbuilder and Pathbuilder to Motorola
Most of Netbuilder and most of pathbuilder...not all of them. I'm not familiar with the Netbuilder line so can't make a guess there, but I suspect 3Com will hang on to the Tunnel Switch line in the Pathbuilder line (this is a personal guess)...I believe that's the 57x series.
They are spinning off the NICs and the Modems to/with ACCTON Technologies and form a new company "US Robotics" (20% ownership by 3Com).
What goes around, comes around. :)
They are selling the Mt Pleasant FAB (HiPer DSP?) to NatSteel Electronics.
Yes, DSP's are made there...about all of Total Control equipment is made there...along with (at least that I know of) CPE cable modems, sportsters (or whatever they're called now), DSL (they only do CPE for these right now), and probably a few other things that I'm forgetting.
They are now reselling Copper Mountain CopperEdge 150 and 200 DSLAM? (hopefully a trend to put it in TC!!)
I'm pretty sure they said that they will be done in a form factor that will include them in the TC.
Looks like they're concentrating on TC and the CPE.
Yeah, carrier and ISP (which is basically TC), home and small office (basically Office Connect) the NBX 100 and related (VOIP stuff) and point products from the rest of their lines that complement these areas (like the tunnel switch I suspect). I don't know if others have felt this way, but I've always thought that TC was the "ugly step-child" of 3Com...didn't ever get the attention it deserved, etc. It seems this is changing.
o, and a new logo too!
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