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To: Alex Raytselsky who wrote (30490)	5/3/1999 12:20:00 PM
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3Com to Spur Wireless Data Growth With High-Speed, Packet-Switched CDMA Platform Business/Technology Editors SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 1999-- System Will Boost Mobile Users' Data Access Speeds to 64 Kbps and Enhance Network Scalability for Service Providers A packet-switched wireless network platform from 3Com Corporation will soon deliver unprecedented wireless data access speeds and new network economies to service providers and their mobile subscribers. The 64-kbps wireless module for the 3Com Total Control(R) multi-service access platform is scheduled to ship in the fourth quarter to wireless infrastructure OEMs, as well as to service providers who wish to offer wireless Internet/intranet access services to their customers. The new system is expected to stimulate new growth in the mobile data networking market by delivering significantly higher network access speeds to subscribers while bringing the networking efficiencies of packet-switching technology to the wireless service provider market. The Yankee Group reported last month that it expects the mobile data market to ramp up over the next 24 months because of two trends: the convergence of wireless networks and the Internet and the deployment of packet-switched wireless systems that enable higher-speed networking. The Boston-based research firm predicts that the number of North American mobile data subscribers will triple between 1999 and 2002, for example, growing from 3.38 million to 10.64 million during that time period. High-Speed Wireless Access to Support New Applications "This new generation of CDMA data technology makes capacity and connection improvements that will support a broader variety of applications and thus attract new users to a wireless access solution," said Irfan Ali, Senior Vice President and General Manager, 3Com Carrier Systems. "In addition, this new system yields access link efficiencies that enable service providers to easily scale their networks in step with subscriber growth." Added Naqi A. Jaffery, wireless industry analyst for Dataquest, an information technology research firm based in Stamford, Conn.: "All the elements are falling into place for the accelerated growth of wireless data. CDMA operators are eager to quickly enter this market and are demanding data capabilities from their suppliers." The new wireless platform will join the Interworking Function (IWF) of 3Com's Total Control platform, which already accepts incoming circuit-switched CDMA signals and transports them over an IP backbone infrastructure to their destination at standard 14.4-kbps CDMA speeds. IWF enables service providers to converge voice PCS services with newer data PCS applications across an integrated infrastructure. Their customers can use CDMA data connections for sending and receiving fax messages and e-mail, browsing the Internet, and accessing their corporate intranets (see 3Com press release, "VPNs Go Wireless: 3Com Adds Tunneling To CDMA Data Networks," May 3, 1999). Both the circuit- and packet-switched versions of 3Com's IWF technology free users from telephone connect times and enable them to bypass the public switched telephone network (PSTN) for call completion, allowing them to save on PSTN toll charges. CDMA is a very efficient, high-capacity technology that spreads multiple conversations across a wide segment of the broadcast spectrum. Each telephone or data call is assigned a special code that identifies it as part of a unique conversation. Packet-Switching Boosts Scalability As with landline networks, packet-switching offers significant efficiencies that enable greater network scalability and support larger volumes of customers than circuit-switched networks. Instead of nailing up connections between two points and leaving bandwidth idle during periods when no transmission is taking place, packet-switching allows full use of network bandwidth. It does so through the use of statistical multiplexing, which separates packets and disperses them to fill the entire transmission link, then reassembles them at their destination. In addition, users do not have to manually set up and tear down phone calls to communicate using packet-switched networks. Instead, they can be "always connected," much as users on a local-area network are continually online. 3Com's award-winning Total Control multi-service access platform provides telecommunications carriers, service providers and large enterprises with a powerful and complete networking solution, including support for remote access, IP telephony and virtual private networking applications. The software-upgradable platform is designed for service reliability, using redundant power supplies and modular application cards to prevent a single point of failure. About 3Com With more than 200 million customers worldwide, 3Com Corporation connects more people to information in more ways than any other networking company. 3Com delivers innovative information access products and network system solutions to large, medium and small enterprises; carriers and network service providers; PC OEMs; and consumers. 3Com -- More connected.(tm) For further information, visit 3Com's World Wide Web site at www.3com.com or the press site at www.3com.com/pressbox. 3Com and Total Control are registered trademarks and More connected. is a trademark of 3Com Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. --30--ap/sf* CONTACT: 3Com Corp. Steven M. Plavny, 847-262-1329 Cell: 847-525-9917 steven_plavny@3Com.com or Steven M. 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