3Com finding opportunities in recession time.
by amed
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Brigham and Women’s is one of the most renowned hospitals in the country and is located right in the heart of Boston. The Shapiro Cardiovascular Center, which is also known as the “cardiovascular center of tomorrow”, turned to networking vendor 3Com to design and provide high availability network for real-time patient monitoring. The center deployed the 3Com® Switch 5500 family of premium stackable switches and the Switch 4210 family of Layer 2 stackables to create the secure converged network it needed to ensure performance and reliability and keep patient monitoring system CARESCAPE™ by GE Healthcare. Original Case Study http://tinyurl.com/3comhealthcare
Healthcare industry is one of the most important industries in today’s world that dictates technological developments and next step achievements. Many health centers have emerged so far by providing ultimate facilities and resources to people and caregivers. Healthcare and Clinics are striving hard in order to maintain their healthy standards and also to meet the demands of tomorrow.
3Com switches provide an easy to use web as well as command line interface, solid and reliable hardware, and superb engineering by the 3Com’s H3C team. Additionally switches allow effective port management and integration with IPS offering TippingPoint. One of the most important factors is cost. 3Com’s per port cost is a fraction of price, of its biggest competition – Cisco Systems.
3Com’s division, H3C, is now making a splash landing deals like this. Previously 3Com lost substantial market share of the switch market, by jumping in and out of it, changing firmware, and simply lacking the communication with the 3Com’s customer base. H3C division dominates existing Asian market with market share of more than 60%. This is an incredible achievement in the land of the constant innovation, ever changing demand, cost effective R&D and manufacturing. It’s nice to see 3Com making a comeback into enterprise market.
Recent economical downturn, as well as a push to restructure the whole US healthcare system, will reduce the astronomical budgets once available to healthcare institutions. This will open up opportunity for small switch manufacturers to make a footprint in the land of enterprise.


