3Com® solutions can connect schools or enhance learning, making the educational process easier and more accessible. Government organizations at every level turn to 3Com for secure, economical, fail-safe networks that increase employee efficiency and make it easier to reach out to citizens. 3Com solutions are designed and tested to comply with a broad range of government-mandated standards and policies. 3Com offers healthcare providers of all sizes a broad range of secure, converged communications solutions to protect privacy and information resources, increase efficiencies, easily scale to meet evolving requirements and reduce costs while ensuring the highest standards of patient care. 3Com products and solutions help retailers increase revenue and decrease costs as they implement new applications that enhance operational efficiency, communications among employees at multiple sites and the variety and quality of customer services. Now more than ever before, enterprises depend on secure converged networks to overcome the challenges of today's business environment. Users benefit from the productivity enabled by IP applications, the freedom provided by wireless and high-performance networking, and the peace-of-mind gained from advanced network security technologies. 3Com has a range of networking solutions that are purpose-built for small and midsize businesses. In today's highly competitive business environment, companies everywhere are looking to extract business advantage from every technology in the enterprise—especially their customer-facing communications, including their telephony system. By introducing the NBX® system in 1998, 3Com delivered the world's first IP PBX, changing the role of enterprise communications systems everywhere. 3Com is still changing the way business speaks.