3Com to deliver pro-active security monitoring solutions

3Com Corporation has announced its strategy to deliver an enhanced secure,
converged voice and data-networking portfolio, complete with pro-active security
monitoring, to the enterprise market in Asia Pacific. This follows the
completion of its acquisition of TippingPoint Technologies in February this
year, and signals the company's commitment to deliver innovative,
standards-based and secure networking solutions to the enterprise market.

The strategy involves aggressively expanding the 3Com security solution
portfolio to automate the security lifecycle, and continuing the evolution of
network and security evolution to integrate Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)
technology into switch and router products.

The network security market continues to be a hot area of growth, with IDC
predicting spending in this area to rise steadily from $2 billion in 2003 to $7
billion by 2008. And pro-active network security monitoring, leveraging on
TippingPoint's Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), is key especially in this
time of regulatory activity, where preserving the integrity, confidentiality and
longevity of corporate information is crucial to success.

"The goal of IT infrastructure today is to create pro-active systems
that can detect and protect against unauthorized access, and provide timely
access to legitimate users. It must have an integrated IPS to respond to attacks
in ways that maintain network availability and reliability and allow a business
to continue functioning," said 3Com SEAI Enterprise Sales Director, Alvin
Toh. He continued, "The integration of TippingPoint's IPS into 3Com
enhances our ability to deliver secure, converged networks to the enterprise
market."

"TippingPoint's long-term strategy is to continue leveraging 3Com's
global resources: distribution, services, support and partnerships to obtain and
maintain market share. While competitors are working on getting their
first-generation product up-to-speed with other IPS's, TippingPoint will be
working on its 5th and 6th generation of IPS's," said TippingPoint's
Regional Sales Director for APR, James Yeh.

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