Unique challenges exist in every business environment, and no single vendor has every best solution. The OSN initiative enables an ecosystem of innovative technology solutions from which organizations can flexibly select from among best-in-class solutions that best meet specific business needs.

The OSN initiative allows organizations to accelerate the deployment of new services on the network by freeing them to select best-available technology solutions, avoiding being locked into a limited selection of solutions from a single vendor

Open Services Networking drives savings in both capital and operating expenses with an integrated hardware infrastructure that reduces the amount of equipment that an organization needs to purchase, implement, manage and support.

Not only are business requirements unique for every organization, they also change. The OSN initiative provides a flexible network infrastructure that can be adapted dynamically to meet evolving business needs without requiring forklift upgrades of network equipment.

As an organization decides to provide services to its own workforce or delivers managed services to customers' networks, an OSN infrastructure lets network decisions match evolving business requirements. Applications can come from the 3Com portfolio, third-party developers, or even open source application developers. Selections can be made based on business value. Implementation timeframes can be set to align with each organization's business needs.