3Com® Secure Networks White Papers—Helping Enterprises Optimize Business Interactions The information in the following documents is presented to help businesses
take full advantage of rapidly evolving technologies and technology trends.
3Com's goal is to provide the resources organizations require to deploy Secure
Converged Networks now.
While most organizations are ready to experience the benefits of Voice over IP technology, their networks may not be ready to deliver its advantages. Read about the critical role quality, security and simplicity play in designing an effective converged communications infrastructure[em dash]one that can ensure the performance, Quality of Service, survivability and network access control needed for high-quality IP telephony and other advanced converged applications.
To maintain a competitive edge, companies must invest in best-of-breed technology that integrates or overlays into their existing network, with the best network design invariably resulting in a multi-vendor IT system. This technical paper focuses on deploying standards-based OSPF IP routing and integrating it with a Cisco network running EIGRP routing, and using 3Com Power over Ethernet LAN switches with the Cisco Call Manager IP Telephony system.
Network visibility and control need to be tightly coupled without disrupting day-to-day business operations and incurring huge capital and operational expenses. This technical paper focuses on deploying network Quarantine with the 3Com Enterprise Management Suite and TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention and Security Management Systems.
3Com’s unique eXpandable Resilient Networking (XRN®) technology enables up to eight individual switches to be combined as a single switching and routing entity. This guide provides best practices for any technical pre- or post-sales engineer implementing XRN stacking or clustering within 3Com’s managed switch portfolio running 3Com OS.
Today, nearly every business relies on services and applications running the office LAN. 3Com solutions provide the dependability and performance required in today's workplace, maximizing IT effectiveness even where staff resources are limited.
Wireless switching delivers user-based management, strong centralized control, and network-wide security policies—expanding the potential of wireless networking far beyond first-generation wireless solutions.
Although the technical issues of the new IETF routing protocol, IPv6, are well understood, large-scale deployment to address major Internet scaling issues is dependent on a seamless transition from IPv4.
Public and private enterprises are now recognizing the importance of mobile devices, of enhanced mobility within and beyond their premises, and of the value of IP based convergence applications. This white paper clearly and comprehensively reviews the requirements and challenges of deploying these productivity enhancing and cost-saving solutions.
The burden posed by an increasing number of government regulations and more widespread adoption of IT and security best practices impacts businesses. The 3Com Enterprise Management Suite helps enterprises quickly and efficiently meet compliance goals while ensuring a high level of responsiveness to ever-changing IT demands.
Deploying a wireless network can involve risks that the enterprise can avoid. This paper explores how businesses can effectively implement wireless communications by taking advantage of expertise, tests, and procedures in advance of implementations.
The IEEE Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard provides a centralized, reliable source of power that lets network devices such as IP phones, wireless access points, and IntelliJack™ switches operate without additional power adapters, cords, or AC outlets.
IT managers build, maintain, and in many cases stake their reputations on the networks they support. A network health check, performed by a third party with specialized equipment, can provide new data to back IT assumptions, a fresh perspective on the network architecture, and insight into the implications of emerging technologies on business communications.
Students, administrators, and faculty need safe and affordable connectivity-increasing options. Innovative 3Com IntelliJack switches deliver an easy-to-implement, cost-effective solution.
With 3Com support for the most advanced security standards, enterprises can deploy wireless networks confident that rogue and suspicious activity will be detected and suppressed, frequency bandwidth will be efficiently managed, and IT staff will have the timely alerts needed to thwart DoS and other WLAN attacks.
Wireless switches and 'fit' access points—the newest generation of WLAN architectures—provide improved security and management, with easier, flexible deployment. This yields much improved cost savings over both first generation wireless, and wired, LANs.
Business-class performance is now available in wireless networks. Mobility systems can support increasingly mobile workers by embedding intelligence directly into the network and easing design, deployment, and management of enterprise wireless LANs. |
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