3Com Corporation

3Com is a manufacturer of local area network equipment, founded in 1979. Palm, Inc, which manufactured the Palm Pilot, used to be a subsidiary of 3Com.

They acquired:

• BICC Data Networks in 1992
• Star-Tek in 1993
• Synernetics in 1993
• Centrum in 1994
• NiceCom in 1994
• AccessWorks, Sonix Communications, Primary Access and Chipcom in 1995
• Axon and OnStream Networks in 1996.

They merged with U.S. Robotics in 1997.

See also: 3Station

External Link

• 3Com Corporation

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