3Com Cable Modem Termination Systems Awarded Excite@Home Level II Status; Company's e-Networks for Service Providers Strategy Strengthened By Approval From Top Industry Advocate.Business/Technology Editors SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2000 3Com(R) Corporation's (Nasdaq: COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ) Carrier Systems Group today announced it has been awarded Level II status by Excite@Home -- a leader in broadband subscription services -- for its Total Control(R) 1000 and new Total Control 1000 Enhanced Cable Modem Termination Systems A cable modem termination system or CMTS is equipment typically found in a cable company's headend, or at cable company hubsite and is used to provide high speed data services, such as cable internet or Voice over IP, to cable subscribers. (CMTS (Cable Modem Termination System) A computerized device that enables cable modems to send and receive packets over the Internet. It inserts IP packets from the Internet into MPEG frames and transmits them to the cable modems via an RF signal. ). These CMTS designations complement 3Com's Level II approved cable modem cable modem Modem used to convert analog data signals to digital form and vise versa, for transmission or receipt over cable television lines, especially for connecting to the Internet. products. With Level II status, 3Com CMTS and cable modem products become part of a cable solutions portfolio supported by Excite@Home for use in data-over-cable deployments by its affiliate service operators including AT&T BIS, Comcast, and Cox Communications Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. It is the third-largest[2] cable television provider in the United States, serving more than 6. among many others. The Excite@Home Level II approval process evaluated 3Com CMTS equipment through field deployment scenarios that tested against performance, stability and scalability benchmarks. By achieving Level II status, 3Com CMTS and cable modem products have been further validated as major broadband e-Network access solutions for cable providers worldwide. "Excite@Home approval is a major milestone for both of our CMTS products" stated Todd Landry, vice president of product management for 3Com's Carrier Systems Group. "3Com's CMTS products now offer the highest performance available and our unique `Adaptive Streaming' capability allows cable operators to optimize their networks for subscriber growth and performance requirements." Total Control 1000 Cable Modem Termination Systems 3Com's Total Control 1000 CMTS and its new Total Control 1000 Enhanced CMTS offer industry-leading system performance for standards-based, DOCSIS-compliant data-over-cable services. Both products feature a distributed processing The first term used to describe the distribution of multiple computers throughout an organization in contrast to a centralized system. It started with the first minicomputers. Today, distributed processing is called "distributed computing." See also client/server. architecture that allows cable operators to scale performance as additional subscribers are added. Another 3Com CMTS capability, known as "Adaptive Streaming" allows cable operators to alter the ratios of upstream and downstream channels -- 3Com CMTS products are the only DOCSIS-compliant systems available in the industry with this unique and powerful capability. Additionally, 3Com's CMTS products provide a variety of unique advantages, including telephony and cable-return modem support fully integrated into the award-winning Total Control 1000 platform. The Total Control 1000 CMTS products are part of 3Com's versatile CommWorks(R) architecture for multiservice packet-based networking that allows service providers to evolve their existing infrastructure for remote access, IP telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. , wireless data, and cable access into an integrated IP-based multiservice network. Presently more than 8 million Total Control 1000 dial-up ports are deployed worldwide at service providers, giving 3Com 39 percent of the worldwide market for Internet access See how to access the Internet. systems (Source: Synergy The enhanced result of two or more people, groups or organizations working together. In other words, one and one equals three! It comes from the Greek "synergia," which means joint work and cooperative action. Research Group, September 1999). 3Com plans to begin customer shipment of its Enhanced CMTS in the first half of 2000. About 3Com Corporation With over 300 million customer connections worldwide, 3Com Corporation connects more people and organizations to information and each other in more innovative, simple and reliable ways than any other networking company. 3Com delivers e-Networking solutions through information access products and network systems to enterprises, small businesses, consumers, carriers and network service providers. For further information, visit 3Com's World Wide Web site at www.3com.com or the press site at www.3com.com/pressbox. Note to Editors: 3Com, CommWorks and Total Control are registered trademarks of 3Com Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. |
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