3Com Launches H3C S5800, Industry’s First ‘Flex-Chassis’ Enterprise Switch Series
Offers modular resiliency and flexible service delivery in a fixed form factor for edge, aggregation or core network deployment at a disruptive price point
As part of the recent global introduction of its H3C large-enterprise networking portfolio, 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS) is introducing the industry’s first “flex-chassis” enterprise switch family, the H3C® S5800 Series. The S5800 offers exceptional port density—up to 192 10-Gigabit ports or 640 Gigabit Ethernet ports—and supports embedded extensible application services including security, wireless and monitoring. The S5800 is designed to enhance network reliability, lower customers’ total cost of ownership (TCO) and improve application delivery, and to fulfill 3Com’s promise to customers they no longer have to compromise on network performance and features because of budget constraints.
The S5800 establishes a new category of enterprise switches, which 3Com calls “flex-chassis”—the first product that can function as a modular chassis as well as a fixed-form-factor stackable switch. The S5800 delivers unmatched flexibility, enabling enterprises to deploy it at any layer of the network—from the edge to the aggregation layer to the core, as well as top-of-rack in the data center—with “no-compromise” performance and functionality.
The S5800, and the entire H3C enterprise networking portfolio, was designed with a future-proof architecture using the industry’s latest technology. Based on open standards, the S5800 provides 3Com customers with a platform that is easily extended as future innovations become available. Using merchant silicon instead of proprietary ASICs, the H3C portfolio features the most modern and low-power chipsets available. A commitment to developing products that use far less power than the industry average means enterprises not only can reduce capital expenditures by deploying the H3C portfolio, they also can spend less money on energy to run their networks. This results in an average 33 percent reduction in TCO with 3Com’s H3C solutions
