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To: Sector Investor who wrote (679)	12/9/1997 10:24:00 AM
From: Captain James T. Kirk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1629

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To: Sector Investor who wrote (679)	12/9/1997 2:04:00 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 1629

J.P. Morgan raised its rating on shares of 3COM CORP to buy from market perform and set a 12-month $50 per share target price. Last Friday, 3Com and its competitors Lucent Technologies Inc, Motorola Inc and Rockwell International Corp said they were starting to come to a consensus decision about a 56K modem standard. Analyst William Rabin said this was good news for 3Com, and modem standard would help spur sales of 56K modems and Total Control remote accesss concentrators, while alleviating some pressure 3Com is seeing in channel inventory. (Reuters 03:10 PM ET 12/08/97) For the full text story, see infobeat.com

To: Sector Investor who wrote (679)	12/9/1997 9:01:00 PM
From: Maverick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1629

MCI doubles Net capacity Faced with Internet traffic growth doubling each year, MCI Tuesday announced a massive upgrade of its Internet backbone. The company said it had doubled the capacity of the infrastructure, and added more than 4,000 access ports to handle the demand. The company said it also introduced technology that also doubles the capacity of its fastest network links without the cost of adding new cables, and allows the equivalent of over one million voice calls to be carried over a single pair of optical fibers. A company vice president based the upgrade to the network was necessitated both by increased usage and demand, and by next generation Internet services, such as Internet broadcasting of multimedia content, which increases the demand for bandwidth.