3Com Corporation maintained its global leadership in the remote access market in 1998, claiming 29% of the worldwide market, the company has announced.
The Dell`Oro Group`s 1998 Remote Access Market Analysis, published 22 February, reports that 3Com ended 1998 with a 29% share of the worldwide remote access market, which includes both access concentrators and access servers. 3Com held a 31% share of the access concentrator market, and a 17% share of the access server market.
"There are more than 6 million 3Com ports installed around the globe, connecting an estimated 85 million people to connect to the Internet," says Irfan Ali, senior VP and GM, 3Com Carrier Systems. "Our award-winning Total Control multi-service access platform provides service providers with a powerful and complete remote solution, including support for remote access, IP telephony and virtual private networking applications."
The Dell`Oro report places 3Com and Ascend Communications in a virtual tie for overall remote access market share leadership, with Cisco placing third. 3Com holds a solid position in both the service provider (35% market share) and enterprise markets (22%).
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"Market share figures vary by research firm and are affected by whether or not mid-range access router revenue is counted as access concentrator revenue. Dell`Oro does not include them," Ali says. "We believe that mid-range access routers are sold primarily to enterprises and that they are not scalable enough to cost-effectively offer high-density dial access solutions for services providers."
3Com`s award-winning Total Control multi-service access platform provides telecommunications carriers, service providers, and large enterprises a powerful and complete networking solution, including support for remote access, VoIP, and virtual private networking applications, explains 3Com SA`s pre sales manager, Paul Ruinaard.
"The platform is designed for service reliability, using redundant power supplies and modular application cards to prevent a single point of failure," he says. "In addition, its modular architecture supports hot-swapping of interface and application cards so that the system remains live and online, thus minimising network downtime."
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