RE: (usr-tc) Is 3Com going to give us the SHAFT?!
Form the sound of the article, they are drop-kicking teh dial-up modem business, but they are holding on to the ISP hardware. Another article mentioned they were selling the ISP hardware part to Motorola. Of course all of this won't be known for sure for a few days still as the dust settles and the "misunderstandings" created by the journalists disappear. -Greg
-----Original Message----- From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Brian Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 3:56 PM To: USRobotics TC Mailing List Subject: (usr-tc) Is 3Com going to give us the SHAFT?!
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It doens't sound like they are spinning it off, it sounds like they plan to 86 it................if that's the case.........well then we are fscked.
Brian
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3Com is shedding Netbuilder and Pathbuilder to Motorola Corebuilder goes to Extreme Networks. They are spinning off the NICs and the Modems to/with ACCTON Technologies and form a new company "US Robotics" (20% ownership by 3Com). They are selling the Mt Pleasant FAB (HiPer DSP?) to NatSteel Electronics. They are now reselling Copper Mountain CopperEdge 150 and 200 DSLAM? (hopefully a trend to put it in TC!!) They will be reselling F5 Labs layer 4 switches and new Corebuilder based switch as "Switch 2000?" TotalControl stays with 3Com. CDMA , Cable , Dial, SS7 and DSL is their new target CPE Devices for Cable and DSL will also be part of 3Com Looks like they're concentrating on TC and the CPE. o, and a new logo too! I got that info from the conference call. Greg Long wrote:
Form the sound of the article, they are drop-kicking teh dial-up modem business, but they are holding on to the ISP hardware. Another article mentioned they were selling the ISP hardware part to Motorola. Of course all of this won't be known for sure for a few days still as the dust settles and the "misunderstandings" created by the journalists disappear.
-Greg
-----Original Message----- From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Brian Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 3:56 PM To: USRobotics TC Mailing List Subject: (usr-tc) Is 3Com going to give us the SHAFT?!
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It doens't sound like they are spinning it off, it sounds like they plan to 86 it................if that's the case.........well then we are fscked.
Brian
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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!
Look forward to seeing it. Only heard it described, and I'm not a terribly good person at visualizing things like that. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.
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Nicolas St-Pierre