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3Com Maintains Lead in Worldwide Remote Access Market With 29 Percent Share
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1999--3Com Corp. (Nasdaq:COMS) maintained its global leadership in the remote access market in 1998, claiming 29 percent of the worldwide market, the company announced today.
The Dell 'Oro Group's 1998 Remote Access Market Analysis, published February 22, reports that 3Com ended 1998 with a 29-percent share of the worldwide remote access market, which includes both access concentrators and access servers. 3Com held a 31-percent share of the access concentrator market, and a 17-percent share of the access server market.
"There are more than 6 million 3Com(R) ports installed around the globe, connecting an estimated 85 million people to connect to the Internet," said Irfan Ali, senior vice president and general manager, 3Com Carrier Systems. "Our award-winning Total Control(R) multi-service access platform provides service providers with a powerful and complete remote solution, including support for remote access, IP telephony and virtual private networking applications."
The Dell 'Oro report places 3Com and Ascend Communications in a virtual tie for overall remote access market share leadership, with Cisco placing third. 3Com holds a solid position in both the service provider (35 percent market share) and enterprise markets (22 percent).
Counting the Numbers
"Market share figures vary by research firm and are affected by whether or not mid-range access router revenue is counted as access concentrator revenue. Dell 'Oro does not include them," Ali said. "We believe that mid-range access routers are sold primarily to enterprises and that they are not scalable enough to cost-effectively offer high-density dial access solutions for services providers."
3Com's award-winning Total Control multi-service access platform provides telecommunications carriers, service providers, and large enterprises a powerful and complete networking solution, including support for remote access, VoIP, and virtual private networking applications. The 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, thus minimizing network downtime.
About 3Com
With more than 200 million customers worldwide, 3Com Corp. connects more people to information in more ways than any other networking company. 3Com delivers innovative information access products and network system solutions to large, medium and small enterprises; carriers and network service providers; PC OEMs; and consumers. 3Com -- More connected(TM).
For further information, visit 3Com's World Wide Web site at 3com.com, or the press site at 3com.com.
Note to Editors: 3Com and Total Control are registered trademarks and More connected. is a trademark of 3Com Corp. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
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