1997 – The company spends $7.3 billion to buy U.S. Robotics, the maker of modems and Palm handhelds.
2000 – 3Com gets out of the large enterprise switching market and spins off Palm as a separate entity.
2003 – The company creates a joint venture with Huawei – H-3C - in an effort to get back into large enterprise switching. The headquarters moves from Santa Clara to Marlborough, Mass.
2004 – for $430 million.
2006 – for $882 million.