3Com, which has been under financial pressure for some years, has successively cut its workforce, while building up its non-US design expertise. Last year it set up a design center in Taiwan.
In April, 2003, it struck an alliance with Chinese telecom equipment vendor Huawei, which 3Com said would provide it with modular layer 2 and 3, 10/100/1000MB switches, and a full line of enterprise routers.
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