Huawei-3Com (H3C), a leading global provider of highly reliable and cost-effective IP networking solutions, has further expanded its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. As part of H3C's international growth strategy, the company is actively pursuing partnerships worldwide with leading local channel partners for long-term cooperation.

Since appointing Cyberstar as its Indian distributor in 2005, H3C has seen strong growth in India for its full series of enterprise networking products. Cyberstar is working closely with H3C in the local market with its well-established local sales offices.

"The increase in network traffic due to deployments of applications and services over converged infrastructures has impacted bandwidth and network performance for many Asian companies, creating major opportunities", said Eric Zhao, Managing Director of H3C in India. "In India, we are seeing increasing market recognition of H3C's leadership in helping enterprises upgrade or build reliable and cost-effective networks. This has resulted in strong sales growth for our end-to-end IP networking solutions. Our aim is always to be the most preferred and be one of the leading players in the segment. We wanted to leverage and expand with our strong alliance with Cyberstar".

Network administrators in India are looking for solutions that can increase performance, resiliency and management without incurring huge costs. H3C's multi-service switches offer carrier-class reliability, wire-speed performance, strong security and large capacity at a cost-effective price point, which meets the high return on investment that Indian enterprises demand.

H3C teams with partners like Cyberstar whose rich experiences and depth of knowledge help them deliver end-to-end networking solutions, as well as customized solutions that cater to their customers' specific needs. Cyberstar is an innovative value added IT Distributor in the Indian Subcontinent providing most reliable products at a competitive price with the best support, through use of the latest technology and is backed by highly motivated team.

Mr. Raj Rathi, founder of Cyberstar

"Cyberstar has the reputation to distribute only the best quality products from more than 15 international manufacturers. We strive to be the first choice for our customers and H3C is a perfect match for us due to its quality and technologically advanced products, which are backed up by its very strong R&D facilities in Bangalore. It invests more than 15 percent of revenues back into R&D every year and has over half of the workforce engaged in research and development, showing its commitment in striving to achieve excellence," said Mr. Raj Rathi, founder of Cyberstar. "In addition, H3C offers a complete range of products including routers, Ethernet switches, wireless LAN, security, voice/video over IP products and network management systems. This alliance will offer the entire market spectrum of networking solutions to a wide range of enterprises, as H3C plans to grow its local presence in the education, finance and government sectors", said Mr. Raj Rathi. "We are confident that with these qualities, Cyberstar and H3C is a strong alliance who is well equipped to meet the rising demands in the networking industry in India."

H3C is committed to increasing their channel partners' values by close cooperation on sales and marketing activities, providing technical support as well as certification and training.