3com 4500G or the new 4800 series...cheap,solid from the company that's been doing networking since day 1.
At the end of an interview we did this week with HP's Marius Haas on the $2.7 billion deal to buy 3Com, we asked, 'What would you say to competitors like Cisco?'
"We're here to build a networking powerhouse and we're determined to make the investments to make that happen," was Haas's reply. Read more
Rumors of a networking acquisition have been flying around HP for years -- I've heard the names Brocade, Extreme, Force10, and even Juniper thrown about. HP indeed followed this logic, but zigged with 3Com instead of zagging with one of these others.
Why 3Com? With the H3C and TippingPoint portfolios, HP got a far broader product line than it could have elsewhere. What's more, H3C high-end switches and routers could be extremely disruptive as they could attack Cisco profit margin which could really hurt even if Cisco wins business.
HP is acquiring 3Com for $2.7 billion to fill out its data center product portfolio and customer base, a move that clearly has Cisco in its gunsights. The companies hope their combined entity will give Cisco a run-for-the-money in data center networking and convergence. Read more
HP and 3Com are claiming that their switches offer a better value that Cisco equipment, due largely to lower price for comparable performance. But does that equate to overall value in every instance? Read more
File this one under, current-economy-a-good-time-to-consider-alternatives. Quinnipiac University in Connecticut is replacing its Cisco network with 3Com. Read more
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. Read more
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 Read more
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."
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 Read more
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.
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.
3Com finally arrived at the gigabit Ethernet party being thrown by small businesses everywhere. Although lagging behind other SMB favorites such as Linksys and Netgear and even HP, at least 3Com appeared. Read more
You probably saw the headlines about 3Com being bought by a partnership of a private investment firm and the company doing most of their manufacturing in China. Will they remain focused on small and medium business networking tools? Probably, says this article recommending 3Com customers stand pat for now. Read more
So now Huawei and Bain Capital have bailed out 3Com and given it a $2 billion new lease of life, what are its chances of competing with its old arch enemy, Cisco?
Analysts say an injection of funds won't do much to scrub the memory of customers who were dropped when 3Com pulled out of the enterprise market 7 years ago. Read more
This is a very positive move! 3Com can make a real comeback with better financial strength that they have.
I can see the bright future for 3Com.
Good luck for 3Com!!
Confirming earlier rumors, 3Com is being sold to Bain Capital and one-time partner Huawei Technologies for a reported $2 billion in a deal expected to be announced later this morning, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.
From the Journal:
The cash deal values Marlborough, Mass.-based 3Com at more than $5 a share, the person said. Huawei Technologies, the Chinese networking giant, will take a minority stake in 3Com as part of the deal.
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The combination of a united Nortel, 3Com and Polycom would create a formidable competitor to Cisco, writes Silicon Valley strategy consultant Sramana Mitra in her blog.
She adds:
Today, the networking industry is represented as Cisco and the Seven Dwarfs. Well, if at least 3-4 of the dwarfs get together, the chances of actually being able to compete in specific markets would become higher.
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