AMERICAN networking company 3Com, a market leader workgroup networking and data centre switching, has announced a new range of switches aimed at capturing the workgroup switching market.
3Com claims the new products, the SuperStack LinkSwitch 1000, LinkSwitch 2200 and LinkSwitch 3000 Ethernet and Fast Ethernet workgroup switches, represent the fastest, most cost-effective and simplest workgroup switches.
With prices starting at US$199 per port, the products allow switching at a price comparable to shared media networks.
Doug Sherman, product marketing manager for 3Com Asia said: 'We are coming out with switching that is very close in price to repeating.
'Yet at the same time with a switched environment, users can get many times the performance of a repeating environment.' Mr Sherman said the products were part of 3Com's strategy to come out with low cost, easy to use switches for the workgroup, with the aim of capturing a major share of that market.
The new products compliment existing 3Com stackable workgroup switches; the LinkSwitch 500, LinkSwitch 1200 and LinkSwitch 2700, and switch to all popular high speed network technologies.
The LinkSwitch 1000 has 24 switched ethernet ports, a switched Fast Ethernet port and an optional slide-in module with a Fast Ethernet port.