3Com Ships Flexible, Affordable, High-Performance Enterprise-Wide Fast Ethernet Solution; Proven Ethernet leader offers suite of 100BASE-T products that enables users to easily migrate to 100Mbps networks.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)--Sept. 11, 1995--Global data networking leader, 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ), is now shipping its enterprise-wide Fast Ethernet An earlier name for 100Mbps Ethernet. See 100Base-T. (networking) Fast Ethernet - A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. solution. Designed to be both flexible and affordable, the 3Com solution incorporates adapters, stackable hubs, switches and routers that enable users to fully capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. the performance advantages of 100BASE-T technology. This suite of reliable, high-performance 100BASE-T products is built on the company's proven Ethernet expertise, a heritage that has enabled 3Com to achieve the market leading position in Ethernet adapters, stackable hubs and switches. 3Com's Fast Ethernet strategy will also allow customers to further scale their solutions by offering 100BASE-T switching in the LANplex and LinkSwitch product families. "3Com pioneered the Ethernet business. Its world-class and worldwide research and development, manufacturing, distribution, and support all have enabled the company to become the established leader in Ethernet technology," said Doug Spreng, executive vice president and general manager of 3Com's Personal Connectivity Operations. "We're now applying the same expertise and resources to Fast Ethernet to provide users with the same high level of quality and value they expect with our 10Mbps Ethernet products. Quite simply, we're doing for Fast Ethernet what we did for Ethernet, and our suite of industry-leading products will lead us to the same position in this new market." Fast Ethernet Networks Shipping Today 3Com's scalable Fast Ethernet solution allows users to reap the benefits of high speed networks today, while simultaneously ensuring a migration path for future growth. Users can now deploy Fast Ethernet technology in the workgroup, backbone, or throughout the enterprise using 3Com's new 100 Mbps 100BASE-T modules for the NETBuilder II modular, high-performance router, new LinkBuilder FMS FMS - Flexible Manufacturing System (factory automation). 100 SuperStack hub, LinkSwitch 1000 desktop and workgroup switch A network switch designed for LAN traffic within an enterprise. Contrast with carrier-class switch. and Fast EtherLink 10/100 PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). and EISA (Extended ISA) Pronounced "ee-suh." A PC bus standard that extends the 16-bit ISA bus (AT bus) to 32 bits and provides bus mastering. ISA cards can plug into an EISA slot. Parallel Tasking adapter cards. 3Com's enterprise-wide Fast Ethernet solution includes a suite of products derived from market leading lines, enabling users to deploy high-performance 100Mbps networks that offer the same level of reliability and ease-of-use as that of 3Com's 10Mbps products. The new Fast Ethernet modules for the NETBuilder II router The first full-featured Fast Ethernet WAN router A network device designed to forward packets to an external network such as the Internet. Most routers are used to direct traffic to a network outside of the one they reside in such as the Internet. , the 3Com NETBuilder II combines leading-edge technology with a flexible, modular design In the context of systems engineering, modular design — or "modularity in design" — is an approach aiming to subdivide a system into smaller parts (modules) that can be independently created and then used in different systems to drive multiple functionalities. . The new Fast Ethernet modules are supported by NETBuilder II's ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. and multiprocessor-based high performance architecture, complementing NETBuilder's wide array of modular LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. and WAN interfaces. These hot-swapable interface modules can be deployed in any of the NETBuilder II chassis, and provide easy growth and unsurpassed value. The inclusion of the Fast Ethernet modules also provide a larger bandwidth pipe to WAN connections for users linking to remote office sites. A 100BASE-TX module for shielded UPT UPT Universal Personal Telecommunications UPT Universidade Portucalense UPT Uptown (New Orleans, LA) UPT Undergraduate Pilot Training UPT Units Per Transaction UPT Urine Pregnancy Test UPT Union Pacific Technologies or CAT 5 UTP UTP (uridine triphosphate): see uracil. (Unshielded Twisted Pair) See twisted pair. UTP - unshielded twisted pair is $4,295; a 100BASE-FX fiber version to support greater distances is $4,995. The new LinkBuilder FMS 100 hub Part of the industry leading SuperStack family, the LinkBuilder FMS 100 hub offers 100Mbps connectivity in an affordable and flexible stackable system. The hub has 12 100BASE-TX ports and a media flexible 13th port. The hub is stackable up to eight units, providing up to 104 ports in a single stack. The FMS 100 is available for $199 per port, in a 48-port configuration; $2899 for a single unit. The LinkSwitch 1000 10/100 switch Introduced in May 1995, the LinkSwitch 1000 offers revolutionary switching price performance, bringing switching to the price of repeating. A SuperStack family, the LinkSwitch 1000 allows users to build high-performance 10BASE-T workgroups with multiple 100BASE-T servers or backbone connections. Available at $4,975, the LinkSwitch 1000 is also multimedia-ready, with built-in hardware to support 3Com's PACE technology for multimedia over Ethernet. The Fast EtherLink PCI and EISA adapter cards Extensions of the market leading EtherLink III adapter family, the dual-speed 10/100 PCI and EISA Fast EtherLink adapters perform up to 72 percent faster than the competition; performance is achieved by marrying bus mastering A bus design that allows the peripheral controllers (plug-in boards) to access the computer's memory independently of the CPU. It allows data transfers to take place between the peripheral device and memory while the CPU is performing other tasks. bus mastering - bus master technology with 3Com's patented Parallel Tasking technology. The adapters, shipping since February, are available starting at $195. Proven Performance -- Tolly Group Testing Independent tests of 3Com's Fast Ethernet products running in a NetWare environment prove that 3Com's 100BASE-T products dramatically increase network performance and sustain data throughput beyond 80Mbps. The NETBuilder II provides routed Fast Ethernet close to 80Mbps. The LinkBuilder FMS 100 supports shared Fast Ethernet workgroup and server farm throughput of up to 86 Mbps. And, the LinkSwitch 1000 scales performance of existing Ethernet workgroups from 10Mbps to 160Mbps, using its two switched Fast Ethernet parts for server connectivity. Scaling Performance with Fast Ethernet As Fast Ethernet technology continues to roll out into the Enterprise, 3Com's products allow the customer to further scale their solutions in several ways: through increased switching density; switched connections to other high-speed backbone technologies, such as FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Often pronounced "fiddy," it was a LAN and MAN access method that had its heyday in the mid-1990s. FDDI was an ANSI standard token passing network that transmitted 100 Mbps over optical fiber up to 10 kilometers. ; and easy migration to ATM. Stackable Fast Ethernet switching Announced in May for availability later this year, the LinkSwitch 3000 SuperStack Fast Ethernet switch will provide stackable, affordable, wire-speed 100BASE-T switching. Modular, departmental switching 3Com ASIC technology has provided the LANplex 2500 with spectacular performance for Ethernet and FDDI switching and IntraNetwork routing. With the introduction of a slide-in Fast Ethernet module in early 1996, the platform's modular design will allow users to construct workgroup, departmental, or data center designs employing combinations of Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and FDDI. For example, Ethernet workgroups with local or departmental Fast Ethernet servers, all switched at wire speed to a building or campus FDDI backbone. High-density, data center Fast Ethernet switching Two modules for the LANplex 6000 data center switch, available in early 1996, permit construction of dense Fast Ethernet Enterprise networks, as well as easy connection of users' Fast Ethernet environments with Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI and ATM networks. The Tri-Media Module (TMM TMM The ISO 4217 currency code for the Turkmenistan Manet. ) for the LANplex 6000 enables customers to create 100BASE-T server farms and connect to an FDDI backbone. Based on the industry-leading ISE Ise (ē`sā), city (1990 pop. 104,164), Mie prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on Ise Bay. It is one of the foremost religious centers of Shinto, the site of the shrines of Ise. chip, the TMM offers an FDDI backbone interface, switched 10Mbps Ethernet connections for client workstations, and Fast Ethernet connections to servers. The Fast Ethernet Switching Modules (FESM FESM Festa do Espirito Santo de Manteca ) for the LANplex 6000 are built on the same proven BRASICA ASIC technology employed in the LinkSwitch 1000 and LinkSwitch 3000. The FESM offer either 100BASE-TX or 100BASE-FX interfaces to connect LinkSwitch 1000 workgroup switches, LANplex 2500 workgroup switches, LANplex 2500 workgroup switches or 100BASE-T servers. Fast Ethernet to ATM and FDDI 3Com's Fast Ethernet solution can be easily integrated into an existing FDDI network and smoothly migrated to ATM backbones. Connection to FDDI networks is through the LANplex and NETBuilder products. For ATM migration, 3Com will offer ATM modules for the LinkSwitch 3000, the NETBuilder II and both the LANplex 2500 and 6000. 3Com Corporation has helped more than 22 million people gain access to critical information through high-speed networks. Designed to serve large enterprises, small offices and homes, 3Com products provide a scalable architecture to meet the connectivity needs of today's users. With research and development on three continents, 3Com is one of the data networking industry's largest and fastest growing companies. 3Com's innovative manufacturing, marketing, sales and support simplify communication, optimize network reliability and protect customer investments. For further information, visit 3Com's World Wide Web site at http.//www.3Com.com. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: 3Com, EtherLink, LANplex, NETBuilder, NETBuilder II, Parallel Tasking and LinkBuilder are registered trademarks of 3Com Corporation. LinkSwitch, SuperStack and FMS are trademarks of 3Com Corporation. 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