SANTA CLARA, Calif., —
December 6, 1999 — It is not the Triple Crown, but it is
close. 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS) today announced that
its NBX® 100 communications system received three top
industry honors recently from PC Magazine, Internet Telephony
and Internet Telephony Expo Fall 1999. During COMDEX/Fall
‘99 on Nov. 15, PC Magazine awarded the NBX 100
communications system with the "1999 Technical Excellence
Award." Also last month, Internet Telephony deemed the
NBX 100 communications system one of the "Products of the
Year." And lastly, at Internet Telephony Expo in October,
the product won the "Best of Show" award. These
awards demonstrate that industry experts who closely follow
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) rank the NBX 100
communications system as one of the hottest products on the
market.
"We are honored to be
recognized with these top awards from two illustrious industry
magazines and one prestigious exposition," says Ed
Wadbrook, director, Voice Solutions Group, Network System
Business Unit at 3Com Corporation. "The NBX 100
communications system is setting the standard for data and
voice converged network solutions – delivering
customer-focused products organizations demand. We will
continue to lead with innovative solutions that provide a
compelling advantage to companies implementing IP telephony
systems – basic e-Network building blocks for
e-business."
Technical Excellence Award
When choosing the winner of the Technical Excellence Award,
the editors and staffers at PC Magazine look for products that
exhibit new technology, new concepts and major advances in
existing products.
"The NBX 100 had to
compete with hundreds of products that shipped in the year
ending September 30, 1999," said Leon Erlanger, executive
editor at PC Magazine. "The Technical Excellence Award
winners were chosen after weeks of debate among the PC
Magazine editorial staff. We chose the NBX 100 communications
system because it's the most elegant solution for combining
voice and data over a single network. Voice quality was
excellent, and even with its long list of call control and
telephony features, the NBX 100 communications system was
easy-to-use and very reliable."
Product of the Year and Best
of Show Awards
Internet Telephony’s "Products of the Year" awards
are the publication’s selection of the industry’s most
outstanding commodities. According to Rich Tehrani, president
of Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), the NBX 100
communications system was placed on this "Who’s
Who" list of products because it is a "must
see" IP-PBX.
At Internet Telephony Expo, the
system was singled out for the "Best of Show" award
by the editorial staffs of both Internet Telephony and CTI
magazines from among products of over 55 top
telecommunications company exhibitors. The editors from TMC
recognized the NBX 100 communications system as a truly
ingenious leader in the rapidly growing Internet telephony
market.
"Our editors selected 3Com
for the outstanding impression it made on the exhibit floor
based on innovative product design and elegant
execution," Tehrani says. "3Com, with NBX 100
communications system, helped make our first Internet
Telephony Expo the leading forum for the IP telephony
industry."
Since its introduction in 1998,
the NBX 100 communications system has been recognized by
customers and industry experts alike as the symbol for
reliable, full-featured, IP, PBX solutions that leverage the
burgeoning convergence of data and telecommunication networks.
Today, more than 1,500 North
American growing businesses save money and compete more
effectively by using 3Com's NBX 100 communications system for
standards-based Ethernet LAN voice and data networking. These
include companies such as August Associates of Dallas; RoweCom
of Boston; bitHeads inc. of Ottawa, Canada; and Crawford Steel
of Chicago.
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. 3Com — More
connected.™ For further information, visit 3Com's World Wide
Web site at www.3com.com or the Pressbox.
3Com and NBX are registered
trademarks and More connected. is a trademark of 3Com
Corporation. All other company and product names may be
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