) H3C's comprehensive product line simplifies support for VoIP, wireless LANS and other network-based services across a wide variety of business networks.
Today's enterprise networks have evolved into advanced platforms for the delivery of business processes and applications, making them a core competitive advantage. In this environment, enterprises that pursue global strategies must deploy processes for applying networked systems, the Internet and e-commerce to its market research, product development, technical excellence, quality control, supply chain, cash flow and product distribution systems.
Challenges Facing Enterprises
In Asia, companies are moving to more sophisticated and service-rich network environments that embrace the integration of Internet access and WAN environments by leapfrogging other technologies and deploying wireless LANs, VoIP telephony and assorted collaborative systems over advanced data and communications networks. H3C addresses the most common challenges facing these enterprise network deployments – stability, security, quality of service (QoS), and different bandwidth and capacity needs of different applications.
Stability - As networks expand in size and evolve to include many more IP-based applications and wireless services, business continuity is a main concern of network managers. Business continuity requires the network to be stable. Networks need to employ infrastructures that eliminate single-point failures to reduce network downtime or service interruptions for IP forwarding, multicasting and other business processes.
Security - Network security is a critical issue for IT managers. Securing vital business information and communications is key to providing a stable network that is free from hacker attacks and viruses. Endpoint admission security is a critical area where malicious and criminal intrusions typically occur, but one that many enterprises do not pay enough attention to as they deploy network-based security measures.
QoS - Enterprise networks also require strong QoS capabilities to take advantage of the benefits of converged network technologies. Network tools that can offer a QoS guarantee is essential to maintaining application and service availability and performance levels. Traditional networks with no QoS or built-in security and no hierarchy for services and users are unable to meet the requirement for a converged network.
Capacity - The trend in network design is towards converged architectures that integrate video, voice and data communications onto a single network to improve coordinated development and business control. Network support for the capacity and availability needs of different converged 'triple play' applications like VoIP, wireless LANs, and video conferencing should also be able to handle flexible user and service growth without additional expenditures.
Comprehensive Product Portfolio
Huawei-3Com (H3C) is one of the few global networking equipment providers to offer an end-to-end product portfolio of IP networking solutions. As a market leader it shipped more than 1.3 million Ethernet switches and more than half a million routers to customers in 91 countries in 2005. H3C works with its customers to provide products and solutions that can handle the increased network traffic and bandwidth requirements from deploying converged IP-based services like VoIP, video conferencing, wireless LANs and office automation applications. This need for greater capacity and stability are driving companies of all sizes and in all industries to consider upgrading their existing network infrastructures.
Carrier-class reliability helps enterprises meet the service level requirements of any application running on an enterprise network. H3C's switches offer carrier-grade reliability employing self-healing networking tools. The H3C S9500 is a next-generation switch with Scalable Terabit+backplane technology that is ideal for large-scale network deployments in both core and aggregate levels of many enterprise networks. The S9500 series switches are built with a redundant design for up to 99.999% availability and were the first to deliver innovative a 10G RRPP (rapid ring protection protocol) self-healing solution to the market. The H3C S7500 series large/medium enterprise backbone switches features a redundant core design and power supply for outstanding reliability and boasts a broad range of service features, including strong multicast replication support with a full set of multicast tools and simplified management for reduced network downtime and lower maintenance costs.
To achieve a highly secure network to satisfy service requirements, H3C designs its products with embedded security features that control access and protect against external intrusions and attacks with authentication tools built-in. H3C's SecPath Security solution is offered on the H3C S9500, S7500, S5600, S5100, S3600 switches and AR46 and AR28 routers to provide centralized deployment of network security policies to streamline the management of security components and ensure consistent application of the organization's network security policies. The H3C S3600 series switches forward packets one-by-one ensuring equal forwarding performance and to guard against virus attacks like 'Code Red' and 'Worm Blaster'. It also uses 802.1x authentication to identify users who attempt to access the network. The AR46 also supports hardware encryption for up to 600Mbps 3DES throughput and 4000 IPSec tunnels and data compression to ensure a secure and cost-effective network.
High efficiency is another key element of H3C's vision of an ideal enterprise network. To achieve this, all of its switch and router products come with a powerful QoS guarantee and built-in tools for service management and quality control. The H3C AR46 routers provide embedded application layer QoS functionality via NQA (Network Quality Analysis) technology, while the H3C AR28 series routers adopt the Comware platform to provide abundant software features, backup schemes and QoS features. The S9500 and S7500 series switches boast strong QACL (QoS and ACL) functionality with a powerful QoS assurance for different services, ACLs across all lines and complete security management tools for flexible service capabilities.
H3C's high-end multi-service switches, routers and wireless controllers are designed to support flexible bandwidth and capacity growth to accommodate the actual networking requirements of the large variety of IP-based applications used by their customers. With its Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) technology, multiple H3C S5600 or S3600 switches can be interconnected to behave as a single logical switching entity called a Distributed Fabric, which enables network managers to build adaptable networks with 'pay as you go' scalability. The H3C S7500 series switch supports three different switching engines whose capacity ranges from 96Gbps to 768Gbps, with wire-speed per slot ranging from 8Gbps to 48Gbps, and a signal box offering a switching capacity of 288Gbps. The S5600 series has abundant specifications for flexible choices and a stacking bandwidth of up to 96 Gbps. The H3C AR46 router's innovative dual processor design allows for two fixed FE port, three fixed GE ports and provides 350Kpps and 1000Kpps forwarding capability, respectively.
A Partner for Growth
H3C offers customers end-to-end networking solutions that enable the delivery of multiple applications and services with an unparalleled price-performance ratio. H3C leverages the latest technologies like IRF and EAD to improve bandwidth performance, traffic management, security and scalability to tailor solutions that fit the unique industry and business needs of its customers. The myriad challenges facing network administrators today of security for critical data, QoS functionality, user access control and the scalability and flexibility to handle the unique needs of a variety of applications and services.
Enterprise networks wanting greater levels of performance and availability also want flexible, cost-effective growth capabilities. H3C's solutions can help to meet these critical IT requirements by offering the most comprehensive solutions for full-service delivery that integrates security tools like strong user authentication and access authorization and port bundling to ensure the integrity and protect vital business information.
H3C's end-to-end enterprise networking solutions deliver a one-stop-shop that offers high quality, abundant features for security, flexibility and management. Its multi-service switches offer carrier-class reliability, wire-speed performance, strong security and authentication, QoS tools and a high-density modularized design that provides large capacity at an extremely cost-effective price point meeting an enterprise's demand for a high return on their network investment. H3C is also a leader in setting forthcoming growth and communication trends, which is fueling growth and expansion into new markets and industries across the globe.
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