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To: Harold S. Kirby who wrote (31595)	6/15/1999 7:25:00 PM
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Subject: 3COM GEARS UP FOR INTERNET2 IN ASIA Advertisement: ************************************************************************************************* Salomon Smith Barney offers free access to its top-rated research * nearly 1,500 companies covered * personal watch list * timely updates throughout the day Click here to register for free online research today. smithbarneyresearch.com ************************************************************************************************* MAKATI CITY, PHILIPPINES, 1999 JUN 11 (NB) -- By Joel D Pinaroc, Metropolitan Computer Times. 3Com [NASDAQ:COMS] is beefing up its presence in the Asian region with the establishment of six more regional training centers (RTCs) in select Asian countries in the coming months. The move is also seen to be in sync with the company's bid to become part of Internet2, a new networking backbone that seeks to complement the existing Internet infrastructure. Internet2 currently links a number of colleges and universities in the US as well as numerous research and development institutions worldwide. Internet2 is also touted to become a new information highway that is more powerful than the existing Internet, and capable of hosting bandwidth-hungry applications. Since the new backbone will be research-based, it is expected to deliver knowledge in more robust multimedia forms. Aside from 3Com, other information technology (IT) vendors such as IBM, now have a stake in Internet2. According to Daphne Tham, 3Com's education and training manager, Asia Pacific, the 3Com RTCs will be established in key cities in Australia, Malaysia, Shanghai, Singapore, and Japan, among others. In the Philippines, Asia Pacific College was recently appointed a 3Com RTC. Tham said 3Com is eyeing to establish two more RTCs in the country, one in the Visayas and another in the Mindanao region. "We are establishing RTCs all over Asia as part of our academic initiative and as part of our initiative for Internet2," Tham said. She added that the core of the 3Com RTC would be NetPrep, the company's network-centric curriculum to be offered to students. 3Com apparently seeks to eventually link its RTCs to the Internet2 backbone, and deliver multimedia instructions to students. Tham added that, eventually, 3Com would also be able to deliver certification for NetPrep over the Internet. She stressed that with the number of technical jobs in the US now estimated to be 340,000, the demand for network-based curriculum has become even higher. With the NetPrep eventually becoming an integral part of Internet2, 3Com is hoping it will reach more students in more countries. Reported by Newsbytes.com, newsbytes.com Message - Choose Folder -[New Folder]Subscriptionsefax Prev \| Next Download Attachments \| Back to Inbox as attachmentinline text Terms of Service Copyright © 1994-1999 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.