SECURE CONVERGED NETWORKS

Today, businesses of all sizes leverage their network infrastructure to significantly improve productivity and strengthen interactions with customers, employees, and partners. As globalization, competition, regulation, and evolving business models place accelerating demands on enterprises, executives are examining their business and technology architectures to define strategic initiatives that help them reach their short- and long-term goals. At the heart of these initiatives is the network infrastructure.

Customers, employees, and partners increasingly access enterprise applications, resources, and services around the clock using a variety of tools, including mobile phones, laptops, and wireless devices. Whether they are connecting from work, home, branch offices, automobiles, airplanes, coffee shops, or any other commercial space, their need to reach information resources anytime, anywhere is real. And, meeting these demands requires more than innovation and integration.

Security must be designed into every aspect of the network. If it's not, the enterprise faces serious consequences from internal and external vulnerabilities, particularly as organizations converge their voice and data infrastructures. Increased mobility and expanded access requirements broaden the risk of voice and data corruption. Regulatory compliance and intellectual property protection become more difficult as attacks gain sophistication. Factor in government requirements like Sarbanes Oxley, and the security gap widens exponentially. It's no wonder security is the number one issue on the minds of IT Managers today.

Teledynamic offers an integrated portfolio of security, voice, wireless, network management, and service products helps ensure business continuity and closes the gap between business growth and security risk. The broad selection of end-to-end 3Com solutions - from the edge to the core of the network, from 3Com IntelliJack® switches for strikingly easy port expansion to wireless LANs, stackable switches, and IP telephony platforms - are tied together with an award-winning intrusion prevention system and robust centralized management capabilities.

SECURITY
3Com is changing the foundation of corporate networks by pushing intensive "intelligence" - usually reserved for the "core" - to the network edge with innovative products that support new secure converged networks. The 3Com TippingPoint™ Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) addresses even the network's most active mobile users, stopping viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware before they get into the network. Unlike legacy methods of security detection that let the first incident happen, the 3Com solution identifies, prevents, or quarantines the problem before it infects the rest of the network, all in real time.

CONVERGENCE
Whether for a company with 10 or tens of thousands of employees in a single office or distributed around the globe, the 3Com Convergence Applications Suite offers the productivity-enhancing benefits of advanced applications and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based platforms. 3Com convergence applications further facilitate cost-effective business interactions with global calling plans and support for important regulatory compliance-required applications such as call recording, unified voice mail, and media-rich conferencing. Voice routing intelligence allows call-flow decisions to be made at local or global locations, based on real-time voice-traffic requirements, so that service level configuration, availability, and cost can more closely match business needs. And for efficient use regardless of location and wired or wireless connectivity, a single user-friendly interface - the award-winning 3Com Convergence Center Client - supports desktop video conferencing, secure presence (with Instant Messenger), as well as audio conferencing and file sharing.

Read more about Voice-Ready Networking here: Voice Ready Network Brochure.

NETWORKING
Today's business networks must be powerful and flexible. 3Com standards-based architecture is designed to let enterprises pick and choose components that match business strategies and budgets. A rich choice of 3Com enterprise network platforms, all purpose-built for converged environments, offers resilient backbones, edge aggregation, workgroup connectivity, and branch office services. Switching solutions range from advanced modular core switches with up to terabit speed and multilayer traffic prioritization capabilities to stackable switches that combine flexibility with affordability. Based on the latest Wi-Fi standards and security, 3Com wireless access points, controllers, and bridges give organizations the agility to cost-effectively grow and support their mobile workforces. Robust 3Com routers can be deployed in a variety of mixed-vendor networks; they've been independently proven to interoperate with Cisco routers. And the 3Com Enterprise Management Suite (EMS), a Java-based tool, is so powerful that multiple network managers in heterogeneous enterprise networks can simultaneously and efficiently perform key management and administrative tasks in converged network environments.