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3Com Corporation

3Com is a manufacturer of local area network equipment, founded in 1979.

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.

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