São Paulo, Brazil's Court of Justice Selects 3Com’s H3C Enterprise Network Portfolio to Update Network Infrastructure

3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS) today announced it has won a significant contract to supply the Court of Justice in the state of São Paulo, Brazil with its portfolio of next-generation, H3C® high-end multi-service routing switches. 3Com won this contract in a highly competitive bid against its top competitors. The Court’s IT team believes the new H3C network will improve network reliability and availability for the Court by 30 percent -- improving the information flow from the data center to court safe-rooms in more than 700 buildings in 300 locations.

With operations spanning across the state, the Court needed an advanced enterprise networking solution to replace the slow and inefficient network equipment that no longer met the institution’s needs. With the new, faster H3C network from 3Com, authorized Court employees will have access to a high availability network that offers leading price-performance advantages and supports mission critical law enforcement applications and standard work processes, without compromising security and reliability.

"We needed to partner with a company that could provide us with a host of high-quality enterprise networking solutions – from switching to network management solutions to comprehensive intelligence and analysis tools for problem detection and resolution,” said Adriano Breviglieri, director of IT and Communications, Court of Justice. "After carefully evaluating alternative solutions, we knew 3Com could offer the breadth of capabilities we needed, coupled with the network speed, efficiency, integration experience, and price-for-performance advantages we wanted. 3Com quickly emerged as the leading choice for this important upgrade for our community.”

The Court is implementing:

• *H3C S9500 and H3C S7500 series switches, which support information flow at the Data Center, court safe-rooms, and other buildings at the Court House.
• **H3C S5600 Gigabit and H3C S3600-EI series switches deployed at the network edge

These solutions will integrate with more than 200 application servers providing mission critical database services such as Intranet/Internet portal services, the Electronic Justice Journal, and Digital Process. Prior to this implementation with 3Com, the Court of Justice used legacy Layer 2 switching technology that could no longer meet increased service level agreements.

"The Court of Justice needed to not only improve its network speed and performance, but also increase efficiency in all its work processes,” said Robert Ruiz, vice president and general manager, 3Com Latin America. "The Court’s IT and Communication Infrastructure Department sought to obtain the best solution available through an open bid, to guarantee integration and optimum network performance and 3Com proved it had the solutions to deliver.”

3Com Corporation is a $1.3 billion global enterprise networking solutions provider that sets a new price/performance standard for customers. 3Com has three global brands—H3C, 3Com, and TippingPoint—that offer high-performance networking and security solutions to enterprises large and small. The H3C enterprise networking portfolio—a market leader in China—includes products that span from the data center to the edge of the network, while TippingPoint network-based intrusion prevention systems and network access control solutions deliver in-depth, no-compromise application, infrastructure and performance protection.

*Also called the 3Com 8800 and 3Com 7700 respectively

**Also called the 3Com 5500G and 5500 respectively

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