| Health-Care Organizations Worldwide Choose 3Com's Advanced Networking and Security Solutions |
| More than 1 million 3Com switches and routers deployed in health-care industry, delivering high performance with lower TCO; enhancing productivity and protecting patient data |
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MARLBOROUGH, Mass. — April 6, 2009 — 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS), today announced that a growing number of hospitals, health-care providers and medical device manufacturers worldwide are turning to 3Com for advanced networking and security solutions to enhance communications, protect confidential patient information, and help them comply with privacy regulations. More than a million 3Com switches and routers have been deployed by a wide range of health-care institutions that demand high-reliability, high-performance enterprise networking with a lower total cost of ownership that is essential in today's global economy.
Among the latest organizations to choose 3Com solutions are South Bend Medical Foundation in Indiana, Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida, and Instrumentation Laboratory in Massachusetts. Other health-care leaders that have chosen 3Com solutions include:
"A growing number of health-care organizations are realizing the performance, security and financial benefits of deploying 3Com data-networking solutions," said Saar Gillai, senior vice president, worldwide products and solutions for 3Com. "Like most companies, health-care organizations can't tolerate network downtime or security breaches. Our portfolio is the freshest and most energy-efficient in the industry — developed within the past four years — which is why health-care and other enterprises choose high-performance 3Com products and solutions." South Bend Medical Foundation (SBMF), which provides medical laboratory services to patients in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky, has deployed a complete core-to-edge, secure, converged 3Com solution, including:
"We're 24/7, 365 here, so we needed a network that was absolutely cutting-edge," said Mark Ferency, network supervisor and systems analyst for SBMF. "It had to be fast enough, flexible enough and technologically advanced enough so that three or four years down the road, we wouldn't need to replace it. 3Com provided everything we wanted. We now have the network we need to provide superb data and voice access for our employees while keeping our patients' confidential information safe from unauthorized access." Sarasota Memorial Hospital (SMH), Florida's second-largest acute care public hospital and the only facility in southwest Florida that has been ranked repeatedly among U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Hospitals," chose 3Com's TippingPoint IPS and Network Access Control solution to protect its network and the vital data that traverses it. "Last fall, in a five-week period, our network was hit hard by two viruses that jeopardized patient safety and care," said John Bozer, director of information systems at SMH. "A majority of our processes depend on our electronic systems at SMH, including medical records, so as systems were infected, it slowed down the work of the hospital. We needed to protect the network from attacks like these, so we checked the Gartner Magic Quadrant for IPS and saw TippingPoint in the leaders quadrant. We were intrigued by the way it integrates IPS and NAC and knew TippingPoint was the right choice. No other vendor could match the complete security package of TippingPoint." Instrumentation Laboratory is the market leader in diagnostic instruments for critical care and hemostasis (stopping bleeding). The company has deployed the 3Com Switch 8800 as the backbone of its network at its Bedford, Mass., headquarters. "The functionality and flexibility of the Switch 8800 is vital because we have a very robust network with multiple VLANs, trunking, ACLs, and more, and 3Com accommodates our demands with ease," said Carlos Fernandes, network supervisor for Instrumentation Laboratory. "If we have downtime on our network, it means money lost. 3Com provides us with a solid, reliable infrastructure with built-in redundancy that delivers outstanding uptime. Since we installed the Switch 8800 at our new facility, we have had no network failures." See 3Com Health-Care Solutions at HIMSS Attendees at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition in Chicago, April 4 - 8, 2009, can visit 3Com at booth 6039. About 3Com Corporation 3Com Corporation is a $1.3B global converged network infrastructure supplier that helps customers achieve business success by delivering solutions that provide exceptional value. The company's H3C enterprise networking portfolio provides best-in-class performance, efficiency and reliability and delivers unparalleled return on investment. With TippingPoint, 3Com is a leading provider of network-based intrusion prevention systems that deliver in-depth application protection, infrastructure protection, and performance protection. For further information, please visit www.3com.com, or the press site www.3com.com/pressbox. Copyright © 2009 3Com Corporation. 3Com, the 3Com logo, VCX, TippingPoint and H3C are registered trademarks of 3Com Corporation or its wholly owned subsidiaries in various countries around the world. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective holders. For More Information: |
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