3Com is turning up the heat on enterprise routing rival Cisco Systems. On Monday, the company announced two new sets of low-cost access routers that are designed to be replacements or alternatives to ...

The new Router 3000 WAN family is targeted at small remote offices and retail outlets, said Nick Hallwood, director of enterprise solutions at 3Com, Marlborough, Mass. The line features a fixed ...

3Com announced the Multi-Service Router (MSR) with OSN, a branch-in-a-box offering designed for deployment in branch and regional offices and by MSPs. MSR's IP router platform runs applications on ...

3Com has added a virtualization feature to its routers via a partnership with LineSider Technologies, a provider of policy-based network infrastructure control and management products. LineSider’s ...

3Com stopped selling high-end routers and switches for corporations about six years ago to concentrate on service provider and small business gear. But in 2003, the company reentered the market by ...

HP boasts that its newest data center achieves twice the port and capacity density and a 50 percent reduction in power consumption versus previous solutions HP has unveiled a new “edge-to-core ...

I'm a power engineer, more used to working with batteries and generators than network equipment. I've been drafted into a project, and will be spending some time configuring a couple of pallets of ...

3Com will revive another of its previously abandoned enterprise network lines this week as it launches a series of WAN routers for enterprise branch and central offices. The 3Com Router 5000 series is ...

After a lengthy hiatus from the router business, 3Com is jumping back in. “For a long time, our customers have been asking us to get back into the router business,” said Nick Tidd, director of ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. On Monday, ...