Established in 1979, 3Com is focused exclusively on serving the enterprise data and voice networking market and has a strong balance sheet, renowned brand, large intellectual property portfolio and global presence. The company has world-class strategic partners and one of the broadest product lines and distribution channels in the industry. 3Com continues to define the way networks are built through superior engineering and by leveraging standards to reduce complexity, unlocking the hold of proprietary systems and lowering cost of ownership.

In order to meet the business and technology needs of enterprise customers, 3Com's 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 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 multi vendor environments. 3Com's portfolio includes wide area network (WAN) router solutions designed to eliminate enterprise customers' concerns about premium-priced, proprietary systems that are highly complex and costly to manage and support.

3Com's innovative expandable Resilient Networking (XRNT) technology connects multiple LAN switches and manages them as a single fabric, lowering administration burdens, decreasing costs, and creating a highly resilient and redundant network core. By allowing multiple switches to be administered as one, XRN technology maximizes performance management. XRN allows companies to expand their networks with "pay-as-you-grow" scalability and helps reduce the risk of network failure.
  

3Com's enterprise solutions also include advanced modular chassis switches that enable customers to expand their networks with cost-effective and resilient solutions for converged networking of voice and data.

3Com's newly released product line - the 3Com VCXT IP Telephony Solution - offers a pure-IP based, carrier-grade telephony solution for the enterprise customer of any size. The VCX solution offers a unique ability to scale across a large, multi-site, distributed network efficiently and reliably through a centralized, modular architecture ideally suited for management and provisioning. At the same time, VCX technology easily integrates with legacy infrastructures, avoiding a costly "fork lift" approach, to allow for a measured migration to a full IP telephony network.