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Harris PRISM Chips Selected For 3Com’s High Speed Wireless LAN Solutions

— PRISM chips will enable 3Com® AirConnect*11 Mbps products

MELBOURNE, Fla., June 24, 1999 — Harris’ PRISM* Chip Set will be used in a new family of wireless networking products demonstrated by 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS) at PC Expo. This summer, 3Com mapped out an aggressive wireless connectivity roadmap that includes product families for enterprise customers, travelers and consumers. Harris’ industry-leading PRISM Chip Set will be used in 3Com’s standards-compliant, high-speed AirConnect™ wireless LAN solution.

"3Com wins two important firsts with their announcement," said Ron Van Dell, vice president and general manager of Harris’ Communications Products Business. "They’re the first big networking company to offer 11 megabit per second wireless solutions for the Enterprise space, and their home networking solution is expected to be the first to meet the IEEE’s 802.11 high rate standard, now in draft form. 3Com is an industry leader, and we’re proud to have PRISM on board their products."

The 3Com AirConnect* Wireless LAN solution boosts productivity by allowing people to stay connected to network data, email and the Internet—anywhere in the enterprise. There are four products in the 3Com solution; access points, notebook PC Cards, desktop network interface cards (NICs) and network management software. The access point acts as a bridge between the wired network and up to 63 wireless clients whose laptop, desktop PC, or other wireless appliances are fitted with either a PC or NIC card. Harris’ PRISM chips are used in all three hardware products, allowing Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) radio transmission of data over the 2.4 GHz ISM band with compliance to the IEEE 802.11 and 802.11 HR (high rate) standards.

"3Com is pioneering the wireless connectivity revolution with a high speed, standards-based wireless LAN solution that will profoundly change the way people work in the office," said Rich Redelfs, vice president and general manager of 3Com’s Wireless and Home Connectivity Division. "We are pleased to offer the industry’s most reliable and easiest-to-manage solution at a price point that will enable broad adoption by small, medium and large enterprise customers. Harris’ PRISM chips help us accomplish that goal."

About 3Com Corporation
With more than 200 million customers worldwide, 3Com Corporation connects more people to information in more ways than any other networking company. 3Com delivers innovative information access products and network system solutions to large, medium and small enterprises; carriers and network service providers; PC OEMs; and consumers. 3Com—More connected™. For further information, visit 3Com's World Wide Web site at www.3com.com or the press site at www.3com.com/pressbox.

About Harris
Harris Semiconductor manufactures discrete devices and integrated circuits with R&D efforts focused on innovative new products for high-growth segments of the communications, power and space/defense markets. Harris Semiconductor’s PRISM WLAN chip set is recognized as the industry-leading solution, and has been incorporated into over 100 wireless products from 40 different companies. Harris Semiconductor is being divested by Harris Corporation, as announced June 2, 1999. When the divestiture is complete, Harris Semiconductor will operate as a subsidiary of Sterling Holding LLC, a Citicorp Venture Capital investment portfolio company.

PRISM is a registered trademark of Harris Corporation.

3Com is a registered trademark and AirConnect and More connected. are trademarks of 3Com Corporation.