3Com® Solutions for the Retail Sector

3Com solutions appeal to retail businesses that want to drive top-line revenues up and operations costs down—and free themselves from expensive network solutions that distract staff and constrain future growth. 3Com provides a broad offering of innovative products that deliver outstanding business value, and is a proven vendor of secure, converged voice and data networking solutions for retailers of all sizes.

At 3Com, the retail technology vision is scalable, integrated, and open standards-based for data and voice delivery.

Instead of focusing its engineers on designing perplexing equipment and integrating a hodgepodge of acquired technologies, 3Com zeroes in on responding to its customers' business needs. The company has been doing this for decades, since using its Ethernet adapter to pioneer business networking.

3Com provides practical solutions that have a low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). 3Com understands that profit margins in retail can be razor-thin. The TCO of 3Com products is often substantially lower than that of its competitors' products. This is because 3Com solutions:

• Are straightforward to administer and manage, saving time and money on an ongoing basis;
• Are scalable, meaning that they cost less to add capacity, upgrade software, or increase performance;
• Seldom require IT staff to have advanced network certifications, much less undergo expensive training programs; and
• Are proven to be interoperable in multivendor environments; they are based on open standards and offer backwards and forwards compatibility.