3Com

Since 3Com's founding in 1979 and creation of the Ethernet standard more than 30 years ago, the world has embraced 3Com's vision of networking:

• every personal computer has a network connection
• businesses are fundamentally built around a flow of information carried by a network
• enterprises large and small are increasingly adopting "converged" networks that include Internet Protocol (IP) telephony technologies to achieve significant cost savings and dramatic new functionality and features that enhance the bottom-line
• organizations are actively seeking and deploying integrated security solutions that can ensure business continuity

Today, customers want increased innovation and more intelligent networking products that ensure a secure, cost-effective, interoperable infrastructure.

More than any other company, 3Com is today delivering secure converged networks.

1. A Proven, Broad Portfolio: 3Com offers one of the broadest range of edge-to-core solutions to meet the needs of public and private sector organizations of all sizes for security, performance, and reliability.
2. Superior Business Value: 3Com changes the cost-to-acquire, -own and -operate equation by removing the overhead of costly and complex architectures and unlocking the hold of proprietary systems, making best-of-breed solutions easy to own and maintain.
3. The Company You Keep: 3Com backs each customer with global sales, service and support, technology and financial and operational strength, all combine to deliver tier-one credentials that enterprise customers demand.

3Com Enterprise Networking
3Com's long-term technology-based vision centers on enterprise customers migrating to secure IP infrastructures that fully integrate data and voice networking applications.

Data Networking Infrastructure
In order to meet the business and technology needs of enterprise customers, a 3Com® network infrastructure focuses on the main requirements for fully converged enterprise networks: availability, performance, scalability and ease-of-use, while lowering the cost to buy and own. 3Com is one of only a few vendors that can deliver secure, feature-rich, high-performance, end-to-end solutions that support voice and data applications to the large, medium and small enterprise markets.

As part of an aggressive, standards-based approach to meeting enterprise customers' requirements for lower cost of ownership, 3Com is focused on reducing complexity by making management and configuration of data networking much easier. 3Com continues to innovate around an open architecture that supports multivendor environments.

The 3Com portfolio includes switching solutions that range from advanced, modular core switches with up to terabit speed and multilayer traffic prioritization capabilities to stackable switches that combine flexibility with affordability. Based on the latest Wi-Fi standards and security, 3Com wireless bridges, access points, and controllers give organizations the ability to cost-effectively grow and support their mobile workforces. Robust 3Com routers can be deployed in a variety of mixed-vendor networks; they have been independently proved to interoperate with Cisco routers. And the 3Com Enterprise Management Suite is so powerful that multiple network mangers in heterogeneous enterprise networks can simultaneously and efficiently perform key management and administrative tasks in converged network environments.

3Com delivers its networking capabilities in the following categories of data networking products and solutions

For more information, visit www.3com.com

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