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To: Sawtooth who wrote (30732)	5/9/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: Mang Cheng	Respond to of 45548

"3Com bests quartet of ISDN router rivals" 3Com Corp. recently demonstrated that its OfficeConnect LAN Modem is more powerful and offers greater functionality than four other ISDN routers. In tests of competitive ISDN routers commissioned by 3Com, The Tolly Group found that the OfficeConnect LAN Modem provides a powerful and sophisticated implementation of Network Address Translation (NAT), which enables multiple clients to share a single ISP account. The 3Com OfficeConnect product also allows for easy configuration through a standard Web interface and offers multiple network destination support and "data call bumping." Moreover, the OfficeConnect LAN Modem achieves high performance with text and pre-compressed data. The Tolly Group benchmarked the OfficeConnect LAN Modem against Ascend Communications Inc.'s Pipeline 75, Cisco Systems, Inc.'s 776 ISDN Access Router, Nortel Networks' NETGEAR RT 328 ISDN Router, and Ramp Networks Inc.'s WebRamp 410i. Testing revealed that the 3Com OfficeConnect LAN Modem offers features and functions unsupported by rival products. For instance, the 3Com OfficeConnect LAN Modem offers the widest array of applications supported under NAT, an expansive set of features supported from the product's GUI, and has the capability to connect to separate remote destinations simultaneously by monitoring LAN traffic and bringing up channels to remote networks based on the destination addresses of packets. With regard to applications throughput, the OfficeConnect LAN Modem delivers aggregate applications throughput of over 120 Kbit/s for unidirectional traffic and over 200 Kbit/s for bidirectional traffic. Applications throughput was measured with NAT enabled, implying that 3Com's NAT implementation does not impose a processing penalty on throughput. To view the complete Test Summary, point your browser at: tolly.com, follow the links for Custom Tests, and access Document 199110. tolly.com Mang