"At this point, we felt the best solution was for us to partner," he said. "Trapeze has industry-leading technology, and it allowed us to get a better product to market much sooner than if we had done it on our own.". 3Com enters into the wireless-switch market through a partnership with start-up Trapeze Networks. 3Com said Monday that it will begin reselling a version of the Mobility Exchange switch and management software from Trapeze Networks under the 3Com brand later this year. The companies plan to eventually integrate Trapeze's wireless local-area network (LAN) switching products into 3Com's product line, allowing Trapeze hardware and software to work with current 3Com products, including its wireless access points and its existing Ethernet switches. The first products to be sold under 3Com's label are expected later this year.

CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, Cisco echo case for apple iphone x and xs - clear and Enterasys Networks have already announced similar planned programs, Cisco's Network Admission Control will integrate Cisco networking gear with software from three antivirus providers--McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro, The integration enables networking products such as switches and routers to check for host integrity on devices connected to the network, Cisco in June announced the first phase of those products and said it plans to implement the strategy on its routers first and add functionality to its LAN (local area network) switches in 2005..

Enterasys announced its products in February. Several networking companies and antivirus providers also plan to to provide similar functionality on a wider range of networking products. Alcatel is using Sygate's host-based antivirus technology to ensure that PCs and other machines connecting to the corporate network are running antivirus software, personal firewalls and operating-system patches. If an endpoint is not properly secured, the Automatic Quarantine Engine will send the machine to a separate virtual LAN and automatically apply updates.

Through the Quarantine Engine, Alcatel switches will also be able to communicate with third-party intrusion detection and prevention systems, Once a worm or virus echo case for apple iphone x and xs - clear is detected, the Automatic Quarantine engine will locate the offender and place the infected device into a quarantine, Because Alcatel does not have a security appliance of its own, the company plans to resell Fortinet's intrusion detection, VPN and firewall products along with its switches through its channel partners, Alcatel has been focused on the enterprise market in North America since the late 1990s, In October 1998, it bought a company called Packet Engines for $315 million, A few months later, it spent $2 billion in cash on start-up Xylan..

While most analysts give the OmniSwitches high technical marks, the company has barely made a dent in the market. Cisco currently dominates LAN switching with roughly 70 percent market share, according to Synergy Research Group's first-quarter 2004 report. Alcatel trails behind Cisco and several other competitors, including Nortel Networks, Hewlett-Packard, 3Com, Extreme Networks and Foundry Networks. Alcatel's strength is in the telecom equipment market. More than 70 percent of its $15.4 billion revenue in 2003 came from sales to wireline and wireless telephone carriers.