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Technology Stocks : Osicom(FIBR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Optician1 who wrote (6472)	4/16/1998 9:34:00 AM
From: David Pawlak	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10479

Optician- The test you are referring to is the bake off that was done by Business Communications Review Magazine that just started hitting mailboxes. In fact, their web site hasn't even been updated yet bcr.com Osicom's IQX-200 was tested against Cisco, ACC, Ascend, Nortel/Shiva, RAScom, and 3Com. Osicom won the "Best Value" award. Quotes: "Osicom has a habit of setting the low-end price for market niches it pursues-including T1 CSU/DSUs, access routers and other product categories. And at $215 per port, barely a third of what higher-priced systems like Nortel's and Ascend's cost, the IQX-200 is a good buy for the budget conscious enterprise. You don't get all the bells and whistles of the high-priced systems, but the features provided are enough to get the job done. And you also get per-port throughput performance that rivals the higher-priced products ... we saw no sign of per-port throughput degradation as we loaded it up." Best Value: FIBR Best in Test award: CSCO and ASND Most Full Featured: ASND and Nortel Most Scalable: ASND Price per port: ACC- $385 ASND $540 CSCO- $468 & 581 (showed 2 boxes) NT/SHVA- $646 FIBR- $215 RAScom-$542 COMS $416 Osicom looks like they are well positioned to attain the market they are pursuing.. the small - mid size, mom and pop ISPs and corporations. You could buy as many as 3 IQX-200's for the price of the more expensive ones. The IQX doens't have all the bells and whistles as the other boxes but it seems to have what is needed to get the job done at a fraction of the cost, and therefore should be able to make a dent in the market. Heck, if they only penetrate 1% of the market, that would add approximately $40 million in new revenues. This award should be a great sales tool to assist them in accomplishing that.