3com 4500G or the new 4800 series...cheap,solid from the company that's been doing networking since day 1.

3com 5500g is really very fast!

That's it. Bain Capital Partners and China's Huawei Technologies have thrown in the towel and abandoned their bid to buy 3Com blaming security concerns of the U.S. government, which is shuddering at the thought of one of its networking equipment suppliers being owned by a China-based company that has strong ties with the country's government. Bain and Huawei first announced their intention to buy 3Com for $2.2B last September but the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has made it difficult for the deal to go ahead. 3Com had even offered to sell off its network security software division Tipping Point to sweeten the deal for the U.S.

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Interesting turn of events with Tipping Point being cited as the culprit, or the deal breaker....

I wonder just how much of this was the effect of Cisco lobbying against it. Too bad... The US keeps trying to close the borders and while we may isolate ourselves from "competition" what we're really doing is isolating ourselves from the world...

The lawsuit that Cisco has been served by Network-1 Security Solutions clearly illustrates Cisco's argument that the United States' patent laws are desperately in need of reform. Network-1 is suing Cisco, and others including Linksys, Foundry Networks, Extreme Networks and 3com, for infringement of a remote power patent. But the technology was not developed by Network-1. Instead, Network-1 acquires and licenses intellectual property "to maximize its value for the benefit of our investors and inventors."

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3Com has Cisco's Integrated Services Routers squarely in its sights as it prepares to launch two applications - one for Asterisk VoIP, and the other for WAN acceleration/optimization - to support its MRS series of multiservice routers (learn more about access routers in Network World's Access Routers Buyer's Guide). The applications are built to 3Com's year-old Open Services Networking (OSN) initiative that allows its routers to run apps from third-parties.

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Great article and a great observation but it omitted to also highlight how flawed are (were) the BoDs at each of the aforementioned companies. BoDs in technology-centric companies are a bigger part of the problem than management since, for the most part, BoDs are not tech-savvy and always drive the financial engineering agenda since that is what they know…Also, MIT guys have much bigger egos than Harvard guys…

3Com Buy News with relations to China Puts forward interesting theory. MASS BUYING..

China did the same in Telecom . Never game huge contracts. Instead asked Motorola to tweat some technology and sell to China. Motorola networks as much as I know is not TOP 3 slot or not-much in news.

NOW Juniper can do something like this.

Juniper + Sycamore [ Optical ] + Broadcom can stich allaince and get Listed on Bombay Stock Exchange.

Vinod Khosla has experience stiching alliances.....

Plz India-as-strategic-investor;India-for-IndianRetailSelling; India-as-iMarket;Rechristen-As-Indian

Might help.

There aren't lot many people in India at minute diff level. Word-of-mouth and peer-success is deciding factor.