For various reasons, 3COM has become a shell company, and 95% of its profits come from H3C, a China company, which was once jointly owned by Huawei and 3Com, and has now been completely taken over by 3Com.

Due to poor management, 3COM plans to sell H3C to Huawei again and then withdraw from the data communication market. However, due to the strict trade protection policy of the United States, the plan aborted.

201April 12, HP announced that it had completed the acquisition of 3Com company in cash at the price of 7.9 USD per share (or nearly 2.7 billion USD in enterprise value). The terms of the transaction have been approved by the boards of HP and 3Com.

20 10 on April 26th, HP announced the new network brand HP Networking this month. Under this brand, a set of sub-brands will be provided from the edge to the core, including A series (for large enterprise users), E series (for medium-sized enterprise users), V series (for small and medium-sized enterprise users) and S series (network security) products, and ProCurve and 3Com brands will no longer be used. In the future, 3Com with three circles in one will only exist in the history of science and technology, and will be replaced by the integrated new company-HP Network.