7. 3COM NETWORK SEMINAR
On October 18, 2002 , 3Com, Tech Pacific and Systems Design organised Securing & Resilient Network seminar. The seminar started with Marcel Jacob, Vice President, South Asia giving the opening addresses to 60 IT professionals. He reassured 3Com commitments in continuing to delivering practical and reliable network solutions for enterprises and small businesses.
All this while enterprises have been focusing in setting up firewall from external attack. A joint Computer Security Institute/FBI survey (Computer Crime and Security Survey, 2000) reveals the unpleasant truth - most security breaches come from users with inside access to company LAN. During the seminar Steven Chung, Security Business Development Manager, shared with the audience the various strategies for enforcing security policy within enterprise network and how 3Com Embedded Firewall (EFW) can further harden intrusion resistance.
With the challenging economic environment, enterprise networks manager increasingly has to do more with constraint resources. EXpandable Resilient Network (XRN) from 3Com is a new patented LAN core technology that solves the network manager needs. Tan Kwong Hui, 3Com Network Consultant, showed the audience using XRN technology to design and implement enterprise network cores. XRN technology allows devices to be added when and where extra performance or ports are needed.
3Com is the only networking company that has successfully combined innovation with practicality. For example, the 3ComŪSuperStackŪ 3 Switch 4900 family provides high performance Gigabit Ethernet switching in a versatile, affordable platform that is flexible and easy to manage. With 3Com's new eXpandable Resilient Networking (XRN) technology you can build your network core a block at a time. This pay-as-you-grow approach means your network always matches your needs and budget.