3Com Corporation

Practical and Innovative Technology Designed for the Reality of the Customer's World

Corporate Profile
3Com Enterprise Networking
3Com Connectivity

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

• Virtually every personal computer contains a network connection or modem;
• Most businesses are fundamentally built around a flow of information carried by a network; and
• Telecommunications service providers are increasingly using Internet Protocol (IP)-based technologies to deliver new services to their customers and dramatically lower their operating costs.

• 3Com Enterprise Networking - provides practical, innovative and high-value converged network infrastructure products, services and solutions for enterprises of all sizes and the public sector; and
• 3Com Connectivity - provides easy-to-use, reliable, high-performance connectivity solutions at the edge of the network.

• By delivering a high performance, practical-to-use, cost-effective solution in an environment of constrained capital and resources;
• By delivering communications technologies that enhance the productivity of the user community;
• By delivering scalable products and solutions based on open architecture that enable ease of integration and evolutionary migration and growth;
• By enabling the effective use of technology to meet the strategic objectives of the business.

1. Network security. 3Com provides security for all areas of the network - from the core to the perimeter and down to the desktop.
2. Collaboration by enabling user-to-user communications via voice, video or data. 3Com's networked telephony products offer collaboration today, and this will broaden in the future to cover voice and data and video.
3. Mobility with anytime, anywhere connections. 3Com offers wireless access points, adapters and connectivity products based on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology, supported by web-based device management tools.
4. Content delivered effectively and quickly where it's needed in the network. 3Com's cutting-edge switching products make it cost-effective to scale performance for the many disparate workgroups within an organization, based on the types of applications they use and the amount of bandwidth they need.

• Switches and web solutions
• Networked Telephony systems
• Wireless access points, adapters and connectivity products
• Internet access gateways
• Secure NICs, including embedded firewall products
• Network Jack
• Network management applications.
• Professional services

Enterprises of all sizes have the goal of operating reliable and cost effective voice and data operations that maximize productivity. Faced with today's economic challenges many enterprises no longer have the luxury of operating disparate networks, and migrating to one network to streamline voice and data operations is a viable solution. Research clearly shows that IP telephony in the enterprise lowers the total cost of network ownership. Yet while cost savings are important, the long-term value proposition of IP telephony is the ability to add new applications that improve employee flexibility and productivity. Companies can significantly enhance business communications through the deployment of new IP-enabled services and applications, such as unified messaging, centralized voice mail, IP-based conferencing, and IP-based call centers.

3Com offers one of the industry's broadest suites of IP telephony solutions to serve enterprises of all sizes - from small and medium-sized enterprises with 40 or fewer phone lines, to large corporations with hundreds of thousands of users across a multi-site environment. By combining and extending industry-leading technologies, including the carrier-class 3Com VCX V7000™ (Voice Core eXchange) softswitch and the award-winning NBX® platform, 3Com delivers an IP architecture design and applications capable of creating a return on investment that could result in substantial savings per user per year. The savings occur as a result of 3Com's system ability to:

• Manage multiple locations from a scalable centralized location;
• Reduce operating costs of voice and associated applications for the company's many locations by creating a single network with a single point of management; and
• Deliver new applications that improve employee productivity and responsiveness to customers.