3Com Corporation, a Marlborough, Massachusetts-based network infrastructure supplier, said on Wednesday that it has won a major contract to provide Zamil Industrial Investment Company (Zamil Industrial), one of Saudi Arabia's largest international businesses, with a complete core-to-edge network infrastructure that will cost-effectively support its rapidly growing business. Zamil Industrial is a leading manufacturing and fabrication group that provides products, engineering systems and services for the construction industry, and employs more than 10,000 people in 55 countries, with annual revenue of more than $1.2 billion. The 3Com solution replaces the existing network in Zamil's Saudi Arabian headquarters. The 3Com core-to-edge network provides increased reliability, centralized manageability and industry-leading price/performance. Based on high-performance multi-layer 10-Gigabit 3Com Switch S7900Es at the core, the network has an access layer of stackable 3Com Switch 5500s, and 3Com Switch 4800s at the edge. The whole infrastructure is managed by 3Com Intelligent Management Center (IMC), which centralizes and simplifies network management, reducing administration costs and increasing business efficiency. “We were impressed, not only by the industry-leading price/performance of 3Com's solution, but by 3Com's responsiveness during the tendering process, as well as their ability to demonstrate the superiority of their products and services compared to the competition,” said Zaki Sabbagh, CIO, Zamil Industrial. “In today's global economic environment, we felt the need to re-evaluate our supplier relationship with an eye toward lowering our total cost of ownership and increasing our network performance and reliability. The 3Com solution proved that they really could help us reach that goal.” Mahmoud El-Ali, 3Com Middle East general manager, added that “once again, 3Com has shown that our comprehensive portfolio of fresh, new networking solutions delivers added value for our customers. With one common operating system and a single unified management platform in IMC, we help our customers reduce their total costs and increase the efficiency of their IT team so they can concentrate on what's most important, enabling their business.” 3Com Corporation is a $1.3 billion global converged network infrastructure supplier that helps customers achieve business success by delivering solutions that provide exceptional value. The company's H3C enterprise networking portfolio provides best-in-class performance, efficiency and reliability and delivers unparalleled return on investment. __
