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Enterprise Networking: 3Com to Take On Cisco in Enterprise Networking


3Com was a major player in the enterprise networking space until about five years ago, when officials decided to focus their attention on smaller and midsize companies. However, during that time, through a partnership with Huawei Technologies, 3Com had a stake in H3C, an enterprise networking business in China. In 2006, 3Com bought out Huawei for $882 million, gaining sole control over H3C. Now 3Com is ready to grow H3C beyond the Chinese market, and is looking to challenge dominant player Cisco Systems in the United States, Europe, Latin America and elsewhere. 3Com is announcing May 11 that it not only is bringing H3C's entire line of networking products global, but also adding new offerings, including new enterprise-level switches and a new management software product, Intelligent Management Center. 3Com officials say that China is the only market where Cisco faces a real market share challenge in H3C, and that they want to expand that competition worldwide.
 
  • 3Com to Take On Cisco in Enterprise Networking
    by Jeffrey Burt
  • H3C S5580-32C
    3Com's H3C S5800 Series flex-chassis enterprise switch family is aimed at improving network reliability and application delivery while reducing overall ownership costs for businesses.
  • H3C S5800-60C
    This switch is a 48-port, triple-speed model that includes two expansion module slots and one OSN (open service networking) module. Its port density can grow to one 80G or 12 10G ports.
  • H3C S5820X-28C
    The S5820X-28C is a flex-chassis switch that offers high-density 10G and 1G connectivity. It also supports embedded extensible application services, including security, wireless and monitoring.
  • H3C S12518
    The new H3C S12500 data center aggregation and high-end core switch can deliver 2.2 billion packets per second of forwarding through a 6.6-tbps (terabit-per-second) non-blocking fabric, with up to 128 10G or 864 Gigabit Ethernet ports and consuming 50 percent less power than competing models.
  • 3Com IMC
    3Com's Intelligent Management Center offers single-pane management of the entire enterprise network infrastructure. The screenshot shows the hierarchical network topology view, with dynamic status monitoring showing the ability to import maps and building plans as a background to the device topology.
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