Monday's News: The following search will yield the CMPNet stories headlined below:
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Trunking Branches Out -- Logically aggregating
switch-to-server links gooses performance, but should
net managers go with software-only solutions or
code-and-cards combos?
To go gigabit or not to go gigabit?...
$8.4 million deal buys Boulder company -- 3Com
snares EuPhonics for audio expertise
EETimes , December 07, 1998
Rolling Meadows, Ill. - 3Com Corp. signed an agreement last
week to purchase EuPhonics Inc. (Boulder, Colo.), a
semiconductor and software specialist in high-quality audio....
3Com and Cisco make acquisitions
Computer Reseller News , December 07, 1998
San Francisco -- Two big data networking companies, 3Com
Corp. and the seemingly insatiable Cisco Systems Inc., each
bagged an acquisition last week, hoping to further their
respective strategies for converged networks....
3Com Dominates LAN Cards
Computer Reseller News , December 07, 1998
Results from the latest CRN Inside Spending brand-preference
poll leave no room for doubt about who owns the network
interface card market....
3Com Adds New Server Smarts, VLANs To NIC
InternetWeek , December 07, 1998
Servers are becoming the venue for IT managers' most
challenging balancing act....
Training Briefs
VARBusiness , December 07, 1998
At Comdex/Fall '98, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash.,
announced its premier certification for database administrators
(DBAs), Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA),
to augment the existing Microsoft Certified Professional
Progra...
Palmtop Goes Wireless -- 3Com Unit's Palm VII
Offers Wireless Access To Internet And Messaging
Information Week , December 07, 1998
3Com Corp.'s Palm Computing unit last week introduced the next
generation of its popular palmtop, a product that it says will
advance wireless data access and messaging technology. The Palm
VII, due next year, lets users retrieve limited in...
Convergence Moves Ahead -- Sprint Outlines ION
Service; 3COM To Use AT& T For Network
Information Week , December 07, 1998
The prospects for converged voice, data, and video on a single
network moved ahead last week when Sprint detailed the
Integrated On-Demand Network services it plans to make
available early next year. Also touting convergence was 3Com
Corp.,...
ISDN: Alive And Well -- Small businesses are
breathing new life into ISDN modems
VARBusiness , December 07, 1998
The advent of cable and ADSL modem technologies cut into the
ISDN modem market and even replace the technology. But
analysts and vendors agree that the market still holds
considerable potential for VARs serving the small-business
market. IS...
An Upgrade In Convenience
InternetWeek , December 07, 1998
Although 3Com's popular PalmPilot has long been a favorite of
busy managers for organizing personal information, the
diminutive computer platform has lately become an important
means of staying in touch with the rest of the world as well. W...
Next-generation Palm handheld gets wireless link
EETimes , December 07, 1998
Santa Clara, Calif. - Anxious to keep its lead in the
handheld-computing race, the Palm Computing subsidiary of
3Com Corp. is adding wireless connectivity to its popular Palm
system, hoping to take the offensive in promoting Palm devices
as...
3Com selects Lucent DSP for Palm Vll
Electronic Buyers' News , December 07, 1998
Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group got a
significant boost in its DSP efforts last week when 3Com Corp.
announced that it will use Lucent's POMP-15 in its
next-generation Palm VII organizer....
The Year That Was
Electronic Buyers' News , December 07, 1998
It's been some year. Videotapes of Big Bill (East) showed the
country's chief exec wondering aloud what the meaning of "is" is.
Videotapes of Big Bill (West) revealed the Microsoft chief exec
suffering from a memory conflict. Meanwhile, the...
New Juice for Analog Modems? -- The V.90 spec has
been ratified-and net managers can start shopping for
56K modems packed with value-added features
Electronic Buyers' News , December 07, 1998
The more insistent end-users' demands for bandwidth become,
the more analog modems look like one tired technology. Think
snail's-pace throughput, excruciating delays for e-mail
attachments, and Web pages that take forever to pop up on scree...
Device Lets You Snap-On To Web
InternetWeek , December 07, 1998
3Com PalmPilot owners have had good reason to smile for some
time. But now, Option International Inc.'s Snap-On GSM Adapter
for the PalmPilot can make life even more productive-and make
being productive downright entertaining....
3Com Launches 10/100 NICs
InternetWeek , December 07, 1998
3Com last week unveiled the OfficeConnect Fast Ethernet 10/100
network interface card for small offices, the first NIC in the
OfficeConnect line. The NIC is designed for PCs running Windows
95, 98 and NT. The OfficeConnect NIC is available ...
Three-Port Card From 3Com
InternetWeek , December 07, 1998
3Com this week will unveil a three-port network interface card
for migrating legacy coaxial 10-Mbps Ethernet to Fast Ethernet.
The Fast EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI combo NIC has an RJ-45 port
for Categories 3, 4 and 5 twisted-pair copper for 10...
Net-telephony design deals become the talk of the
Western Show -- Cable carriers embrace
voice-over-Internet
EETimes , December 07, 1998
Anaheim, Calif. - Cable-TV operators' aggressive plans to deploy
voice-over-Internet Protocol shifted into overdrive at last
week's Western Show, here. Integrated components, development
alliances and carriers' road maps for rolling out the...
3Com Euphoric Over Euphonics
Electronic Buyers' News , December 07, 1998
3Com Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., last Friday acquired
audio-software vendor Euphonics Inc. for $8.3 million in cash
and stock. Euphonics will now adapt its PC audio-software
algorithms to improve the quality of 3Com's forthcoming
voice-over...
Who Mugged Santa Claus?
InternetWeek , December 07, 1998
As I turned to look at the man who had called my name, I nearly
keeled over like the @Work network, which kicked many Arizona
businesses off the Internet during a power failure Thanksgiving
week....
3Com Takes VitalSigns For USR
InternetWeek , December 07, 1998
INSoft, formerly VitalSigns Software, is incorporating its
VitalAgent client-based performance management software into
3Com's new Modem Manager package for managing the U.S.
Robotics V.90 56-Kbps modem. INSoft, which recently was
acquired ...
Enforcing Net Policies
InternetWeek , December 07, 1998
For most IT managers, the big problem isn't that they don't
understand the company's business priorities, it's getting the
company's systems, networks, directories and management
systems to understand those priorities....
Recession-Proof? -- According to the Data Comm 1999
Market Forecast, vendors have good reason to be
bullish about the networking industry
InternetWeek , December 07, 1998
Can the bulls beat back the bears? After this year's
roller-coaster stock rides and Asia-Pacific meltdowns, the best
minds in business seem to be focusing on that question. But
should anyone in the networking and telecom industries care?
Ma...
Creative Accounting
InternetWeek , December 07, 1998
Worried that Y2K fixes will sap the network budget? Some
crafty net managers are actually turning the Millennium Bug to
their advantage, siphoning off money from Y2K budgets and using
it to upgrade infrastructure with multilayer switches, g...
ProTech cashes in on white boxes
Computer Reseller News , December 07, 1998
Lenexa, Kan. -- ProTech Computer Services Inc. has discovered
white boxes are a white-hot business....
Handheld computers carve niche
Computer Reseller News , December 07, 1998
New York -- Small computers are leading to large sales for
resellers. Companies are discovering that handheld computers
are powerful enough to augment users' desktop computers....
NIC niceties
Computer Reseller News , December 07, 1998
3Com Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., this month will offer an upgrade
to its 3C980B-TX Fast EtherLink Service network interface
card. One card costs $199, a five-pack is $975, and a 20-pack
is $3,800....
HP call-center program adds integration options
Computer Reseller News , December 07, 1998
Palo Alto, Calif. -- Integrators building customer- contact
centers now have the option of adding outbound dialing or virtual
call-center capabilities....
Top Of The Charts
Computer Reseller News , December 07, 1998
IS managers signaled very few changes in their preferences of
mass-storage and board product brands this year, according to
the CRN Inside Spending survey. Perennial favorites continued to
dominate the product categories, as they have in pr...
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