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To: Dennis R. Duke who wrote (41550)	3/30/1998 1:25:00 PM
From: djane	Respond to of 61433

Excerpts from 3/30/98 ASND press release on MAX 6000 "Ascend's MAX remote access concentrators are used by 28 of the 30 of the world's largest Internet service providers. According to The Dell'Oro Group's February 1998 worldwide survey, Ascend leads the remote access concentrator market with 40.8 percent of the RAC analog port shipments in Q4 1997, which is 59 percent more than the closest competitor, 3Com Corp., and 158 percent more than Cisco Systems." "The MAX 6000 has undergone rigorous performance testing in some of the top dial access testing labs in the U.S. The Tolly Group states in its March, 1988 Access Concentrator Comparison Report that the MAX 6000 "outperforms Cisco Systems' AS5300, and Lucent Technologies' PortMaster 3 across analog and digital connections loaded with 24 or more clients," and that the MAX 6000 "offers solid and consistent performance even when fully loaded at 92 connections."" "XXCal Testing Laboratories compared the MAX 6000 against three more highly priced concentrators including the Bay Networks' Versalar 5000, Compaq Microcom's 6200, and 3Com's Total Control Hiper Access System. The MAX 6000 tied for first in upload performance and came in second in download performance. Cisco declined participation in this product review."