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| THIS IS THE NEWS Invest in your future with new Open Services Networking |
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As business needs change, enterprises are moving away from networks that simply provide traditional connectivity services, to networks that enable the delivery of an ever-growing range of services such as VoIP, compliance monitoring applications, WAN optimisation and mobility. |
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If you’re in the process of reassessing your networking needs, investing in a switch that offers the fastest, most cost-effective route to new applications on your network is an investment in the future of your business. 3Com’s 5500G Switch family, compatible with the revolutionary, new Open Services Networking (OSN), is the ideal solution.
| “3Com is doing the right thing with OSN. By enacting this strategy in an open manner, and before most of its competitors, 3Com is giving itself a competitive advantage.” Current Analysis, February 2007 |
Simple, cost-effective, flexible
OSN means you can enjoy the simplicity, low cost and ease-of-use associated with integrated solutions combined with the innovation, flexibility and scalability of a multi-vendor, best-of-breed approach.
No longer do you have to be locked-in to the premium pricing and limited choice of a single vendor, or suffer the management challenges and high operational expense of the traditional multi-vendor solution.
Adopt an open, all-in-one network infrastructure, and you can implement new and emerging technologies that best address your business issues, while reducing the complexity of your IT infrastructure on which they run.
Multi-vendor technology on a single hardware platform
At the heart of this remarkable innovation is a Linux-based OSN Module which, when integrated into 3Com routers and switches such as the 5500G, provides an open service delivery platform from which a variety of software-based services can be run.
The OSN Module comes complete with software that provides security, provisioning and management tools, including a traffic control engine and mechanisms that facilitate easy upgrades, backup and multi-unit installation. This advanced software is critical for efficient distribution and management of applications, secure access to the networks switching and routing features, and advanced failover and fault tolerance.
Enabling innovation through technology partnership
An important component of the OSN solution is the 3Com|On Program. Through a collaborative, open approach, the 3COM|ON team actively engages leading solution providers in developing products and services that complement our product portfolio. For our customers, this ensures quality testing of secure solutions, trustworthy choices and seamless deployments.
Effectively addresses your business needs
An OSN-enabled 5500G Switch affords you the ability to truly innovate. Free from the high dependency associated with a single vendor, you can customise best-of-breed services to effectively address network pain points.
You can deploy the best available solutions according to your own timeframe, not the vendors, while the ability to dynamically adapt the network means you can enjoy lasting investment protection.
Investing in 3Com’s Open Services Networking allows your business to realise its full potential. To find out more about this innovative technology go to: http://3com.com/osn
