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3Com Voice Solution Outshines Competition to Revolutionize Campus-Wide Communications and Beef-Up Student Safety

SANTA CLARA, Calif., January 29, 2002 – 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS) today announced that Lubbock Christian University is bolstering its communications and security using a $500,000 3Com® IP-based business telephone system. After evaluating systems from Cisco and Sanyo, Lubbock chose the 3Com SuperStack® 3 NBX® Networked Telephony Solution, which affordably delivers advanced telephone features over a single wiring infrastructure. Based on a 25-building campus in Lubbock, TX, Lubbock Christian University employs 400 staff and faculty and offers a unique curriculum to 1,850 students. The school awards a range of undergraduate degrees, including Christian bible studies and an Organizational Management program tailored to the nontraditional working student. The intimate but growing university provides classes with less than 25 students and supports an international student body seeking quality education with a personal touch. "We needed better, more secure communications than our preexisting Centrex and Dimension PBX phone systems provided to fulfill new federal emergency notification requirements," said Robert Smith, Lubbock's director of technology. "The reliability and superior price/performance of the 3Com solution allowed us to quickly meet every need – for substantially less than competing solutions. The system also allows us to expand quickly to meet the phenomenal growth of the university." Renowned for its plug-and-play setup and interoperability, the 3Com NBX family provides full-featured, premium-quality telephone communications over Ethernet networks, eliminating the cost of separate phone wiring and supporting up to 600 users and 750 ports. Secure, Campus-Wide Communications Lubbock installed two SuperStack 3 NBX chassis and distributed 400 NBX phones throughout the campus administrative and academic buildings. The university additionally deployed empty SuperStack 3 NBX chassis in five dormitories. Within the empty chassis, Lubbock inserted 450 NBX analog terminal adapters (ATAs) that allow students to plug their "junk" phones into dorm walls and still receive the most crucial functionality of any "fully-loaded" NBX chassis. Using the 3Com solution, Lubbock confidently meets new federal 911 regulations using the NBX system's e911 feature, which enables emergency units to know precisely from which building and room a 911 call originated. The university is further streamlining communications between the campus and the outside world by using automated attendants, voice mail and direct inward dialing (DID). Teachers also use the NBX system's call forwarding feature during the summer to direct calls to their homes, and Lubbock's admissions staff will use the PcXset headsets and CTI functionality to dial numbers from the computer and speed recruiting efforts. Lubbock's IT team is effortlessly handling changes to the 3Com system with the browser-based NetSet™ administration tool and the university's baseball sportscasters will use NBX phones to call in broadcasts to radio stations. In addition, the system allows the IT team to set up telephone banks for fund-raisers and other events with only a small commitment of manpower and time. "Without 3Com's technology and cooperation, we could not have afforded the advanced communications we now enjoy," concluded Smith. "Thanks to the NBX solution, we've joined the telecommunications revolution while ensuring we measure up to federal requirements for campus-wide safety." About 3Com Corporation 3Com is the global leader in functionally rich, easy-to-use networking products that connect businesses to their employees, customers and suppliers—anytime, anywhere. 3Com is also a leader in Internet protocol (IP) service platforms and access infrastructure for the network service provider market. In 1979, the company was founded by one of the inventors of Ethernet technology on which virtually all local area networks are based. Since then, 3Com has sold more than 340,000,000 Ethernet connections. 3Com has headquarters in Santa Clara, California and offices around the world. For further information, please visit www.3com.com, or the press site www.3com.com/pressbox. 3Com, NBX and SuperStack are registered trademarks and NetSet is a trademark of 3Com Corporation.

This press release was accurate at the time it was issued but may not reflect 3Com's current strategy or product offering.

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