Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : 3Com Corporation (COMS) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mang Cheng who wrote (34573)	9/29/1999 1:35:00 AM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

next headline to read... Microsoft Makes Bid for 3Com Software Giant to Buy Networker you got to admit it makes a nice headline! :) mark

To: Mang Cheng who wrote (34573)	9/29/1999 8:58:00 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

3Com Licenses ARM7TDMI(TM) Core for Networking Innovation SANTA CLARA, Calif. and CAMBRIDGE, England, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ via NewsEdge Corporation -- Building upon their previously announced technology alliance (March 99), ARM; (Nasdaq: ARMHY; London: ARM) and 3Com today announced that 3Com has licensed the ARM7TDMI(TM) core for its next-generation network interface cards. This licensing agreement gives 3Com access to the high-performance, low-power RISC technology from ARM and its semiconductor partners. "ARM's emphasis on delivering re-usable, easy to implement and readily available intellectual property makes them an ideal fit with 3Com's silicon and business strategies," said Tom Werner, vice president and general manager, Business Connectivity Division, 3Com. "We can leverage ARM's strengths of performance, multi-source availability and cross-industry development support, as well as the depth of the ARM semiconductor Partnership Model for our next generation products." "ARM has always partnered with industry leaders -- first with world-class semiconductor companies to support OEM needs, and now with world-class OEMs to support end-user needs," said Reynette Au, vice president of Marketing, ARM. "This agreement with 3Com, an industry-leading network solutions provider, proves ARM's commitment to its business model and to the evolving System-on- Chip arena. By working closely with OEMs to address system needs via these SoC solutions, ARM is supporting business opportunities for our semiconductor partners in the rapidly growing networking market. ARM processors range in performance from 60 MHz (54 MIPS) to 175 MHz (200 MIPS), extending to 300 MHz (400+ MIPS) for processor cores currently in development. The cores are noted for performance, small die size, low power consumption, tight code density, and multiple supply sources. Instruction set compatibility between processor families promotes design reuse and reduces software development time. ARM offers full system-on-chip solutions including processor cores, peripheral intellectual property, development tools, applications software, EDA tools and design services. The ARM architecture is well supported by semiconductor partners, real-time operating system providers, third-party toolchain developers, application software providers and ARM design centers.

To: Mang Cheng who wrote (34573)	9/29/1999 8:59:00 AM
From: KyrosL	Respond to of 45548

Telecom Leaders to Collaborate On Standard-Based HDSL2 Effort for Business Access Market RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE) via NewsEdge Corporation -- Leaders in Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology announced today that they are collectively endorsing HDSL2, a high-performance symmetric, standard-based DSL service for the business access market segment. In order to accelerate the deployment of HDSL2, 3Com Corporation, Alcatel, FlowPoint Corporation, Level One Communications, Netopia and Nortel Networks are publicly endorsing this new two-wire transmission technology. Comprised of both central office (CO) and customer premise equipment (CPE) manufacturers, the group intends to develop products incorporating HDSL2 technology. The equipment vendors will work together, using the University of New Hampshire's (UNH) Interoperability Lab to ensure interoperability among CPE and CO based equipment. The addition of small-to-medium business-focused HDSL2 technology to the local loop will allow Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) the ability to offer a full suite of symmetric DSL services for businesses. The draft proposed American National Standard for HDSL2 was developed by ANSI accredited Committee T1 and is now out for voting and comment. In addition, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is working on an international standard, referred to as G.shdsl, for this technology. The companies will base their work on the ANSI HDSL2 standard and progress towards G.shdsl when available. HDSL2 is currently designed to deliver T1-quality symmetric service over a single copper pair. The ITU G.shdsl effort intends to build upon this base technology to deliver a multi-rate symmetric service over extended reaches for maximum business coverage. "It is critical that the leaders in the DSL market place work together to drive standards. Standards translate to interoperability and this reduces stranded assets for customers. With this HDSL2 announcement, key participants in the supply chain for DSL service have agreed to endorse HDSL2. Our customers, and the entire market, will benefit from these efforts," said Mike Dobbs, VP/GM Alcatel ADSL. "As a long-standing interoperability advocate, 3Com Corporation fully supports efforts to establish a universal HDSL2 standard," said Joe Celia, product line manger for 3Com's network systems business unit. "As demand for high-speed Internet access grows, HDSL2 could provide seamless, high-bandwidth connectivity solutions to small and medium businesses worldwide." "Netopia is pleased to endorse HDSL2, as we believe that the move towards standardization and interoperability will provide many new business opportunities for DSL customer premises equipment vendors such as Netopia," said Michael Trupiano, senior vice president and general manager, Netopia Internet Equipment Division. "HDSL2 will allow our service provider partners to offer DSL service that is as powerful as leased line technology and substantially more cost-effective." "The enthusiasm that we are seeing for our HDSL2 chip set is evidence of the demand by service providers for this high-speed, symmetric and interoperable technology," said Dr. Robert Pepper, vice president, Intel's Network Communications Group, and general manager, Level One Communications, Inc. "We are working closely with our key customers to provide more highly integrated, lower power, standards compliant chipsets that will help enable widespread deployment of HDSL2 in early 2000." The HDSL2 line code, known as TC PAM, is designed to overcome some the limitations of today's Symmetric DSL (SDSL) offerings based on 2B1Q line codes. In addition to the increasing concern about 2B1Q-based SDSL solutions' degradation of coexisting services, they are not formally standardized, making them vendor-specific and not interoperable. HDSL2's TC PAM line code is more "spectrally friendly" to coexisting services while allowing for longer reach and higher data rates.

To: Mang Cheng who wrote (34573)	9/29/1999 9:03:00 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

QUALCOMM Announces the pdQ Diagnostic Monitor [pdQ is a CDMA mobile phone integrated with a Palm PDA. Kyros] biz.yahoo.com