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3Com Corporation

That manufacturer of digital electronics manufacturer was famous for the creation of infrastructure products for computer network. Foundation history of the firm goes back to 1979 when it was created by few person and they were Greg Shaw, Howard Charney, Robert Metcalfe and Bruce Borden. 3Com was chosen as a name by Metcalfe as a simple contraction of such just three common words - Computer Communication Compatibility. Meanwhile the main efforts were concentrated to deploy so called Ethernet technologies invented also by Robert himself, the latter was meant to enable PCs networking.

The company offered controllers for the interface of network as well as switches, points for wireless access, routers controllers for wireless access, numerous systems of IP voice, and systems for prevention of intrusions. Headquarters of this firm were located in Massachusetts state of USA. In 2007 the company bought full ownership of H3C Technologies Ltd, which was primarily kind of joint venture with one Chinese firm named Huawei Technologies. By such acquisition 3Com managed to become one of the leaders in Chines market as well as big player in the European market, Asian market and even American market, too. The selling brands were though H3C, 3Com and Tipping Point.

12th of April 2010 was the day when 3Com became a part of Hewlett-Packard, since then this company has no more separate entity.