3Com 公司宣布,它将使自己的局域网电话解决方案能够用于大规模的企业。3Com 公司之所以决定这么做,是因为它认为大型企业可能很希望把自己的语音和数据业务更密切地结合在一起。此举有效地终结了它跟德国西门子公司之间失败的网络合作。3Com 和西门子公司原先结成合作伙伴,在1998年投资1亿美元组建合资企业,为企业网络开发电话产品。但在今年夏天3Com 公司收购NBX 之后,双方终止了合作关系。NBX 是一家致力于在数字网络上开发电话系统的公司。当时3Com 与西门子公司还没有取消一道合作为大公司创建类似的基于网络的电话系统的协议。但随着现在3Com 公司宣布新的发展计划,该公司已经决定单独开发自己的技术来跟像 Cisco 公司、北方电信公司以及朗讯等公司展开竞争。为此, 3Com announced that it will make its own local area network telephony solution available to large-scale enterprises. 3Com decided to do so because it believes that large companies may very much want to bring their voice and data businesses closer together. The move effectively ended its failed network of cooperation with Germany’s Siemens. 3Com and Siemens originally formed a partnership to invest 100 million U.S. dollars in 1998 to form a joint venture to develop telephony products for corporate networks. But after 3Com bought NBX this summer, the two sides terminated the partnership. NBX is a company dedicated to developing telephone systems on digital networks. At the time, 3Com and Siemens had not yet canceled a deal to create a similar Web-based phone system for big companies. But with 3Com now announcing a new development plan, the company has decided to develop its own technology to compete with companies like Cisco, Nortel and Lucent. to this end,