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Press From Around the World Turn to 3Com`s VCN System for Always-On, Content-Rich Access at All Three Presidential Debates SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- 3Com (Nasdaq: COMS) completed its pressroom broadband offerings via the new 3Com(R)Visitor and Community Network (VCN) System at Tuesday night`s presidential debate in St. Louis, Missouri. This follows the company`s successful support of pressrooms at the presidential debates held in Boston, Massachusetts and Winston-Salem, North Carolina earlier this month. The VCN System deployment at each debate location was a public service provided through 3Com`s sponsorship of the Commission on Presidential Debates. The VCN System is an on-premises, dedicated 10 Mbps (megabit per second) superior alternative to today`s xDSL broadband solutions and traditional dial-up modem access. Quickly deployed in each presidential debate pressroom, 3Com`s VCN System offered reporters and photo-journalists an always-on, easy-to-access resource regardless of their laptop computer brand or configuration to disseminate debate news throughout the world. The VCN System utilizes Ethernet over VDSL (Very high speed Digital Subscriber Line), a next generation advancement over today`s xDSL connectivity options, as a powerful method to rapidly download and upload bandwidth-intensive web-based content, email and other media-rich applications. Members of the 1000-plus Press Corps Turn to 3Com`s VCN System Throughout the debates, press were able to plug their laptop computers into the VCN System and instantly access a content-rich Presidential Debate 2000 information resource web page -- complete with hot links to debate related websites. Once on the system, reporters and photographers marveled at the ease and speed of accessing and sending time sensitive information to do their jobs. Peter DaSilva, a photographer working with Corbis Sygma, a world-leading photographic press agency for publications and events such as Time Magazine, Newsweek and the 2000 Olympics commented on his VCN System experience. "If I send an 800 kilobyte image it would take me 3 to 4 minutes per image using dial-up 56 Kbps (kilobits per second) connection. By contrast, with 3Com`s VCN System, I was able to send a 1.3 megabyte image in just 3 seconds." With two minutes to deadline, Ann McFeatters, reporter for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and Toledo Blade, instantly logged onto the VCN System and completed her assignment. "I was able to file my stories to both papers just in time thanks to the VCN System." Robert Willett, staff photographer from the Raleigh News & Observer finds the VCN System speed and performance equally impressive. "I have sent 17 photos from the start to the end of the debates -- that`s incredible! I could have only sent half as many photos in the same time frame using a 56 Kbps dial-up modem." Rich Galen, vice president of National Affairs for SpeakOut.com, took advantage of the always-on, instant access offered on the VCN System. "Accessing the Internet was so easy I was frightened by it," Galen said. "I`ve used high-speed connections in hotels before but many times e-mail doesn`t work. On the VCN System I could not only receive all my e-mail but all my e-mail was sent immediately which means 31 minutes after the debates my story is filed and I`m done." Next Generation Broadband for Public Spaces and Multi-Tenant Buildings The VCN System lets people plug in their Ethernet adapter-equipped PC or laptop and get an instant connection to the Internet -- a connection dramatically faster and more content-rich than other popular broadband technologies including standard DSL. Through a strategic relationship with 3Com, broadband service providers deploy the VCN System on-premises in apartments, hotels, public spaces and multi-tenant office buildings. The broadband networking system is deployed with third party servers for auto-provisioning the network when users log on, and for instantly displaying web-based content accesses via a portal page. At the debates, for example, the VCN System utilized an advanced server from 3Com VCN-partner SolutionInc, which 3Com resells to broadband service providers. When deployed in locations such as airports, hotels and multi-tenant buildings, service providers typically customize a server-based portal page with location-specific content, including information and hot links for local merchants, professional services, restaurants, and other desirable consumer and business resources. With full duplex 10 Mbps per user, the VCN System is an ideal platform for adding content-rich services to basic broadband access services right on the customer-premises. Property management companies and service providers are now eyeing on-demand services such as DVD quality video, on-line gaming and video-conferencing. The VCN System is also an ideal platform for deploying a wide range of consumer and business-oriented "rentable" application services from ASPs (Application Service Provider). These applications will be as diverse as family finance, home and yard improvement and business-class human resource and customer relationship management applications. "We are proud to have offered this valuable service for the debate press corps during the 2000 presidential debates," said David Hayward, director of marketing at 3Com. "3Com`s VCN System has again proven to be an asset and an important tool for the press to quickly complete their assigned tasks. It was a great demonstration of how this new kind of broadband network and content services can benefit people anytime, anywhere." |
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