3Com Corporation expanded its small-and-medium business (SMB) product portfolio with a new standards-based Power over Ethernet (PoE)–enabled wireless access point. The 3Com® OfficeConnect® Wireless 108Mbps 11g PoE Access Point makes 3Com the first vendor to deliver all the necessary components enabling complete voice-data-wireless LAN convergence for small business.
“3Com is getting ahead of the curve by uniquely combining its new PoE-enabled wireless access point along with its PoE web-configurable switch and small business Internet Protocol telephony system into a solution set that is specifically tailored and priced for the SMB market,” said Aaron Vance, Senior Analyst with Synergy Research Group. “Furthermore, 3Com's solution is particularly attractive and convenient for resellers who specialize in the small-and-medium business market.”
3Com’s comprehensive SMB solutions are distinguished by the enterprise-class features that 3Com has built into the easy-to-use products, including the recently announced 3Com Baseline Switch 2226-PWR Plus and 3Com NBX® V3000 telephony system.
“We are giving 3Com’s small business customers and medium-sized business customers the best of all converging worlds – wireless, telephony and data,” said Neal Kaufman, Senior Director of Small Business Product Management, 3Com. “The Power over Ethernet in the Baseline Plus Switch drives power to the new PoE OfficeConnect wireless access points and 3Com advanced IP telephones. This eliminates the need for a power plug at each access point or phone. Our customers have more choices and flexibility with 3Com’s secure solutions. They also get the enterprise-class features at an affordable price and without complexity.”
3Com continues to expand and upgrade its SMB product portfolio in order to help drive the networking industry trends for this growing and evolving market. Today’s announcement of a “Connect Anywhere” 3Com wireless solution is another step forward in 3Com’s SMB strategy to offer complete solutions to small-and-medium business customers.
Having one of the broadest SMB product portfolios in the industry, 3Com also offers the OfficeConnect Wireless 11g XJACK® PC Card and the IntelliJack™ device to support end-user connections, whether wirelessly by the innovative and patented XJACK technology in the 3Com wireless PC card or wired by the four-port, PoE-enabled “network jack,” another 3Com innovation that turns one connection into four secure connections.
