3com to Compete with Cisco

RNelson writes "3com has announced its new lines of routers poised to compete with Cisco. 'The company claims that these routers will cost 30 percent to 50 percent less than similar offerings from market leader Cisco.' The new routers compete the Cisco's 3725, 3745, and 83xx routers."

Re:The Error is You

[Anonymous Coward]

Linksys doesn't own 3Com. That someone is you.

Heh

[Gannoc]

The new routers compete the Cisco's 3725, 3745, and 83xx routers.

Hehe.

The new routers compete the Cisco. 3com have no chance to survive make your time.

Should I bother with my CCNA and CCNP,

[Trigun]

Or can I get the same certificates from 3com for 30-50% less work and knowledge?

Re:30-50% less?

[Agent Green]

3com knows this, I suspect, which is why they are lowballing them. I would even suspect they think high enough of their name to not charge less than 30-50% less than cisco stuff.

Apparently, 3Com has never heard of eBay. :)

Re:Interesting move for 3Com...

[jayhawk88]

I'll have you know that 3Com's line of routers have a default username/password of 3Com/oakland. So clearly they are a seperate and complete product from Cisco's line of routers, and there is no chance whatsoever that any of Cisco's code was used to create the 3Com router code.

Re:30-50% less?

[Karma Farmer]

Why didn't you just make your own replacement switch, using open bsd, some spare ethernet cards, and an old 486 you had lying around? Then, if you had problems, you could go to a mailing list or usenet newsgroup or irc chat, and get almost immediate help.

That's what real men do on slashdot. People who need technical support are wussies, or have jobs, or silly crap like that.

Re:Wait and see

[maxbang]

Your comparisons are insightful, indeed. But you forget that THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!

*runs screaming into net ops room, kitana drawn...*

Re:backdoors

[talon77]

Yeah, because look at how secure 3COM's officeconnect firewalls are. If you are a neophite to networking, then you can go with a 3com "my first NAT device" or now, a 3com "my first router". But if you have an office enviorment, you might want to look at a real security product, such as a PIX.

Re:30-50% less?

[WarlockD]

I HATE THOSE.

We sell auctioned Cisco equipment some times, and it takes us 30 min to carve up a power cable for it.

UGH.