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

To: joe who wrote (17334)	6/12/1998 10:28:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

joe, Actually I work at a.. okay THE Hamilton, Ontario university (McMaster.. www.mcmaster.ca). I have _strong_ ties into CIS and the "politicians" on campus. They are looking at deploying 100Mbps into everyroom on campus (most now have Cat 5 10base 2). So basically we are just talking nic, hubs, routers and switches. Actually our WAN is quiet impressive. From out T3 feed we go straight into fiber which runs all over the campus (including most of the residences). There is talk that in a couple of years, all students will be presented with notebooks at sign up and just plug them in, in ever classroom. This is a massive undertaking. Anyway back to the point, I am recommend 3COM products whereever I can, because they offer better value (and in my personal experience) reliability than CSCO units. Now I'm not saying they are better. Just stating _MY_ experiences (no flames please). I used to be in computer sales and still have my finger on the pulse of it (I have several friends who retail, do LAN/WAN setup etc.) and we allways talk. In fact they are the ones who reminded COMS even existed (I had forgotten about them in the CSCO this and CSCO that). (so it is possible to forget about COMS). COMS has a bright future and great products. In addition COMS has a brain and are busting their balls to bring out newer, faster and cheaper products. They can't lose in this situation. First we have the sub-$1,000 PC. Then we have the sub-$1,000 switches and giga-bit. Then finally we get the sub-$1,000 T1's into every house. That's gotta be the order. (backend equipment will fall before ADSL or cable will ever be cheap enough to compete for the average users' money). Sorry this is so twisted and convoluted, but I am basically rambling here. I hope you find it enjoyable reading (and hopefully mildly informative ;-) ) Steve