Hi Glen - How is 3COM going to respond to this new product
announcement from CS today? Is the CoreBuilder 9000 their answer?
(http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/980908/cabletron_1.html)
Cabletron Delivers the Industry's Most Powerful Enterprise Desktop
Switch
New SmartSwitch Router 2000 Brings Wire-Speed Application Level
Control To The Desktop - Priced 70% Below The Competition
from the article:
Competitive Positioning and Pricing
Vendor Configuration Functionality Price
(US list)
Cabletron
SSR 2000 24 10/100 TX IP, IPX, RIP, OSPF, $8,995
2 Gig SX BGP-4, standards-based
multicast, access
control lists
3Com
Corebuilder 3500 12 10/100 TX IP, IPX, no access $30,000
2 Gig SX control lists, no layer starting
4 application priority
Cisco Systems 8510 24 10/100 TX IP, IPX, RIP, OSPF, $40,000
2 Gig SX BGP-4, standards-base starting
multicast (future), no
access control lists
Bay Networks
Accelar 1100 24 10/100 TX IP only, RIP, OSPF, $15,000
2 Gig SX standards-based (IGMP), starting
no access control lists
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Is 3COMS CoreBuilder 9000 which boasts 70G bit/sec capacity their
response? Is it more cost effective per port? It has significantly
higher bandwidth though but will customers pay the premium?
Seems like there may be some pricing preasure on both CSCO and 3COMS
EKS |
