3Com SA has announced the expansion of its modular chassis Switch 7700 family for high-performance, cost-effective LAN business infrastructures. IT managers will now be able to use a new Switch 7700 4-slot chassis to add modularity for enterprise workgroup aggregation or as a small network core.
Additionally, they can also deploy new 20-port Gigabit modules across the range of the Switch 7700 family, effectively more than doubling the Gigabit port density of these switches for enterprise applications.
"The decreasing prices of standards-based Gigabit Ethernet products are making it more affordable for an increasing number of businesses to deploy Gigabit to the edge of the network," says Joshua Johnson, analyst, Synergy Research Group.
"What`s more, customers can choose between high-performance modular chassis-based and stackable-based Gigabit LAN switches, affording them more options to future-proof their networks from the core to the wiring closet, and the option to pick and choose the products that best fit their particular network requirements."
The new 3Com Switch 7700 4-slot chassis gives enterprise customers the option of having a high-performance chassis switch for workgroup aggregation, while the new 20-port Gigabit modules scale switch port density of the entire Switch 7700 family.
Mid-sized enterprises can also use the Switch 7700 4-slot chassis as a small building core switch and, as the business grows into a larger-sized enterprise, scale the network with 3Com`s higher-end Switch 7700s, including the enterprise-level, 8-slot redundant model, for secure, converged networks.
"IT managers will, therefore, have a better balance between advanced features and the cost of smaller building cores," comments Chris van Niekerk, country manager of 3Com SA.
The Switch 7700 4-slot chassis has a single switch fabric slot and three slots for switch modules. Its innovative design allows for a 4-port sub-module on the switch fabric, a less-expensive option for adding a small number of fibre or copper Gigabit uplinks without taking up a full module slot. Total capacity is 64Gb ports or 144 10/100 ports.
3Com offers two 20-port Gigabit modules for the Switch 7700 family. The first is a 1000BASE-T (10/100/1000) 20-port module for copper Gigabit connections. Also available is a 1000BASE-X (SFP) 20-port module for flexible fibre Gigabit connections.
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