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To: E_K_S who wrote (21306)	9/8/1998 8:26:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

Hi Glen - How is 3COM going to respond to this new product announcement from CS today? Is the CoreBuilder 9000 their answer? Eric, I am far from a network engineer. I will sate that COMS has a better known name than CS. That will help COMS. I have no clue on the rest. Glenn

To: E_K_S who wrote (21306)	9/8/1998 8:42:00 PM
From: matt fahy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

EKS, One reason for the price disparity may be that everyone talks about end-to-end solutions which 3Com and Cisco offer with there gear and CS and Bay don't or not as well. Maybe Steve can rant on this for us, I am far from a networking gearhead, just follow stock and industry. Matt

To: E_K_S who wrote (21306)	9/9/1998 10:18:00 AM
From: Shroder Wertheim (Hijacked)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

CS is selling a fixed-configuration router switching "enterprise edge" Ethernet-only device at an extremely aggressive price. CoreBuilder 9000 is a chassis "enterprise core" any to any device. CoreBuilder 3500 is more of a competitor of CS SSR with slightly better expansion capability, RMON2 support and more mature/reliable routing software. CS is new to the router software (as I know, it acquired from public domain software which implies bugs in real world) and few customers will trust router software in the market for less than 1 year. BGP4 for ehternet only device- no much use today. RIP/OSPF are supported by both CB3500 and SSR2000.