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To: richard w allgaier who wrote (29670)	4/13/1999 6:37:00 PM
From: Mang Cheng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

"3Com boosts small-business lineup" April 13, 1999 COMPUTER RESELLER NEWS via NewsEdge Corporation : Santa Clara, Calif.-3Com Corp. last week gave its small business lineup a boost by adding new switches, modems and a remote-access system expansion unit. The OfficeConnect Switch 800 and 1600 are 8- and 16-port 10/100Mbits-per-second auto-sensing switches. The 800 is priced at $495 and the 1600 at $795, or less than $50 a port, according to 3Com. 3Com's new SuperStack II Remote Access 1500 expansion unit adds 24 analog or ISDN ports to the 1500 system. In addition to adding scalability, the unit supports SNMP, a network monitoring and control protocol. It is priced at $1,795. A 4-port analog card is $995, and a 2-port ISDN card is $1,195, 3Com executives said. The new OfficeConnect 56K and ISDN LAN modems can support up to 25 users and feature more Intelligent Network Address Translation (NAT) capabilities. IntelligentNAT lets offices share a single ISP address and shields router-attached workstations from the public Internet. The 56K modem is $349 and the ISDN modem is $499. 3Com, based here, also added more technical support for its OfficeConnect and SuperStack II products. The devices now come with 90-day phone technical support from the date of purchase, 3Com said. VARs can continue to provide onsite service to their small-to-midsize business customers, said Jarek Chylinski, director of small-to-medium enterprises at the company. 3Com's small business VARs also will start to see 3Com-branded LAN PBXes, which 3Com gained when it purchased NBX Corp last month. These new LAN telephony systems, and accompanying 3Com handset, will be available from the company this month. 3Com stressed that the NBX 100 Communications System is an open platform in that it supports a variety of standards, including 802.1p and q for Quality of Service programming, H.323 videoconferencing standard, and Microsoft Corp.'s TAPI, which allows software developers to write telephony applications for customers. By Kimberly Caisse <<COMPUTER RESELLER NEWS -- 04-12-99, p. PG78>> Mang