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3Com next week is expected to unveil a pair of applications - one for Asterisk VoIP and the other for WAN acceleration/optimization - that run on its MSR series of multiservice routers.
The applications are built to 3Com's Open Services Networking (OSN) blueprint, which was launched a year ago to offer open platforms for integrating "best-of-breed" and open source applications developed by 3Com and third parties into the network infrastructure. This, 3Com says, enables enterprises to simplify operations, reduce capital and operating costs, and preserve investment while adding incremental features and functions.
The combination of the routers with the OSN applications are intended to go up against Cisco's Integrated Services Routers (ISR), a highly popular and successful platform for the company that integrates data, voice and security services. ISRs are a key reason for Cisco's continued dominance in the branch office market that Dell'Oro Group puts at 87% in the third quarter of 2007.
Meanwhile, 3Com's share was about 2.6% of the $796 million worldwide market in the third quarter. 3Com hopes the price/performance of its OSN/MSR offering can begin to dent Cisco's dominance. The company says it can offer in some cases more than twice the raw throughput of an ISR at $2,000 to $4,000 less cost.
3Com has sold about 10,000 MSR routers in China, some with 3Com and partner OSN applications for Services Monitoring, event management and network behavior analysis, and e-mail information leak protection. They are designed for deployment at enterprise branch and regional offices and by managed service providers offering enterprises business continuity and security services, among others.
The new 3Com Asterisk IP Communications Platform adds unified VoIP capabilities into the network. It is a Linux-based application that creates an IP-PBX for remote branches with up to 30 employees. The system includes telephony features such as voice mail, auto attendant, voice menus and conferencing. (Learn more about IP-PBX products from our IP-PBX Buyer's Guide.)
3Com Asterisk supports up to 25 simultaneous Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) sessions and no user licenses are needed, 3Com says. It works with 3Com's telephone handsets as well as Polycom's SIP-based IP phones, the company says.
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More Cisco news:By Andrew on January 22, 2008, 3:45 amGood article! More about cisco: Cisco ATP Unified Contact Center Enterprise specialisationNew possibilities in voice self-service systems creation - Cisco products New...
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3Com to release two MSR apps: Is this a chance to steal Cisco ISR customers away?By Cisco Subnet on January 18, 2008, 10:40 am3Com has Cisco's Integrated Services Routers squarely in its sights as it prepares to launch two applications - one for Asterisk VoIP, and the other for WAN...
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