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To: nihil who wrote (18316)	10/21/1998 1:58:00 AM
From: George Bielski	Respond to of 77397

Nihil: Why would anyone enter a contest in which the results are published and humiliation and ridicule are a possible result? to get good press like this... quote.bloomberg.com -------------- 3Com, Networking Competitors to Unveil Gear for Phone Market 3Com, Networking Competitors to Unveil Gear for Phone Market Atlanta, October 20 (Bloomberg) -- 3Com Corp., Cabletron Systems Inc. and other computer-networking companies will unveil new products for the telecommunications market at a major trade conference in Atlanta this week. 3Com, the No. 2 networking company, will demonstrate new software at Networld+Interop that lets businesses send phone calls over the Internet. No. 4 Cabletron will unveil a version of its fastest computer switch, which links corporate networks to the Internet at high speed. Networking companies are racing to develop products for telecommunication carriers as sales to traditional corporate customers slow. Phone companies and Internet service providers need new gear that lets them manage their networks better and offer lucrative data services to their business customers. ''There's a wide gap between what (equipment) the telcos have and what they need'' to handle Internet traffic, said Craig Johnson, an analyst with Pita Group, a market research firm in Portland, Oregon. Phone networks were designed to carry voice communications, and Internet data traffic is clogging the networks as it more than doubles every year. 3Com, along with No. 1 networking company Cisco Systems Inc. and No. 5 Ascend Communications Inc., makes the so-called remote- access concentrators used by Internet providers to route incoming calls. The new version of 3Com's remote-access software lets corporations, and the telecommunication carriers who handle their Internet traffic, to combine voice and data traffic without buying new equipment. Cabletron, whose share of the corporate market plunged in the last 12 months, is adding new modules to the SmartSwitch Router line that it acquired when it bought Yago Systems Inc. in February. The corporate version of the switch has performed faster than competing equipment in several independent tests, and its sales are growing faster than any other Cabletron product.