Saint Benilde taps 3Com

3Com Corp. recently announced that De La Salle University-College of Saint Benilde (DLSU-CSB), a premier institution providing world-class tertiary education, has enhanced its network with 3Com switches and XRN technology.

This network improvement will address the institution’s user growth and allow students and the faculty to handle high bandwidth applications while assuring cost-efficiency in tackling support issues and network redesign.

3Com is powering up DLSU-CSB’s network with two units each of 3Com Superstack 3 Switch 4950 and 4924 combined with the 3Com’s expandable Resilient Networking (XRN) Interconnect Kit.

This solution gives unmatched performance, superlative redundancy and resiliency features to network users using copper and fiber links to the school’s four intermediate distribution frames (IDFs) located at the Benilde, Duerr, Mutien and Solomon buildings.

This, plus a separate fiber optic link to the Angelo King International Center – which is two blocks away from the main DLSU-CSB campus – where users access internal applications such as office productivity software, the Internet, Microsoft Exchange and Oracle Financials.

The school is one of 3Com’s first customers in the Philippines to acquire 3Com’s XRN technology that allows a "pay as you grow strategy" which greatly reduces the total cost of ownership within the core of the network.

By using cost-effective, compact core switches that are easy to use and easy to deploy, a customer’s upfront acquisition cost and ongoing management are much lower than a traditional approach based on a high-end centralized core.

"Using 3Com’s powerful network, our students and faculty can now enjoy reliable, high-speed network performance," said Jaybee Santos, director of the DLSU-CSB Information Technology Center.