20 August 2004
DUBAI - 3Com Corporation, offering comprehensive wired and wireless product line, easy wireless integration into ordinary wired networks, yesterday announced a 'blueprint' for its new wireless switch-based solutions. It will be launched within few months in a series of new product announcements and the company is intended to map out the options available to its enterprise customers in building next-generation, converged wired and wireless networks.
3Com is also pursuing its partner strategy to facilitate faster time-to-market for certain components of the solutions and to have the ability to integrate wireless switch functionality into other 3Com(r) products and new platforms over time.
"3Com's new strategy blueprint is news for enterprises in the Middle East, as it will provide them with a comprehensive range of options to enable them to develop fully-converged wired and wireless networks," said Wael Fakharany, general manager for 3Com in the Middle East.
The benefits to customers include the ability to lower total cost of ownership, more flexibility in choosing affordable, standards-based hardware, creating reinforced links for security across the network, and supporting an increasing number of business applications for enterprise sites and wireless hot spots. Anik Bose, vice president of corporate business development, 3Com,said: "Our new relationship with Trapeze Networks employs this strategy to help bolster our already strong enterprise wireless product line. This relationship will enable us to extend the scalability and feature-leadership of our wireless solutions to all segments of the enterprise market."
As part of its blueprint, 3Com will support wireless switching as an application to standard wired networks giving customers greater choice in deploying their wireless LAN solutions.
BY A STAFF REPORTER
© Khaleej Times 2004
