3Com Corporation today announced it will demonstrate solutions that enable networked digital workflows for publishing and printing environments during the Seybold `98 publishing seminar in New York, March 17-20. As publishers deploy online digital photo libraries and other bandwidth-intensive applications, networks are providing a source of competitive advantage. Networked digital workflows are a system for moving editorial and artistic content in digital format from creation, to collaboration across multiple teams, to project completion. The integrated solutions include next generation network technology from 3Com, PDF (portable document format) workflow applications, and new printing solutions to enhance the creation, production, distribution and delivery of content. "The publishing and printing industry is beginning to look beyond file transfer as the primary benefit of networking technology," says John Marshall, 3Com media and entertainment industry manager. "New 3Com networking solutions are enabling ad agencies, designers, service bureaus, publishers and printers to find, collaborate on, manage and distribute content faster and more reliably within their organisation as well as with remote employees, customers, and suppliers." Recent advances in intranet, extranet, and videoconferencing networking technology are enabling enterprises to extend the capabilities of their networks. Intranets enable internal access to reference materials and reusable content, including photograph and editorial archives, and improve job tracking and overall project management, while extranets allow customers and suppliers similar access to facilitate sales and billing. Video conferencing provides higher quality and more frequent project collaboration across distances. 21st Century Networks for Today`s Publishing Environments Next generation networking technology from 3Com, including the CoreBuilder 3500 switch and the Total Control multi-service platform, is providing publishing and news organisations with easy access to critical information within a local office or between remote sites. The award-winning 3Com CoreBuilder 3500 Layer 3 high function switch is the industry`s first product to leverage the Flexible Intelligent Routing Engine (FIRE) architecture, a fully rogrammable Layer 3 switching, wire-speed routing ASIC technology. This unparalleled switching technology provides ten times the speed at one-tenth the cost of a traditional backbone router, enabling publishing enterprises to easily and to cost-effectively migrate to high-speed, fully switched networks. The Total Control multi-service platform is an advanced DSP-based system ranked by global industry research firms as the world`s leading remote access system in revenue market share. The Total Control platform delivers value-added services such as voice, data, fax, video, virtual private networking and content -- all in a single software-upgradable system. More than three million Total Control ports have been deployed worldwide to date. "3Com`s remote access and wide area solutions allow publishers to initiate and manage customers` jobs from the field, including project proofing and printing, and access to high-resolution images," says Marshall.
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