3Com Hones Data Center Products with H3C S9500E Modular Switch

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February 22, 2010 -- 3Com Corporation has announced the H3C S9500E modular switch chassis, a new enterprise core switching platform optimized for enterprise core and medium-sized data center networks.

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• Current Perspective: Positive on 3Com’s release of the H3C S9500E modular switch chassis, because it rounds out and unifies 3Com’s modular offerings. 3Com is also using this launch to highlight security integration with TippingPoint and its single-fabric theme for the data center network. 3Com has put considerable resources in creating its data center story and refreshing its entire product line for the data center, and the H3C S9500E modular switch is the latest piece of that.

• Vendor Importance: High to 3Com, because the H3C S9500E modular switch gives 3Com a strong, new product for the small to medium-sized data center market. The H3C S9500E modular switch can also serve in the large data center at the aggregation layer. This launch highlights 3Com’s single-pane management and polishes its data center story, something it has needed to be clearer about for some time.

• Market Impact: Moderate on both the modular switch and the data center switching markets, because 3Com’s new switch is shiny to be sure, but with 3Com’s impending purchase by HP, there remains some uncertainty that can only be resolved by the completion of the transaction.

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