Aussie school in Singapore expands network with 3Com converged solution

Peter Dinham
Wednesday, 25 March 2009 07:46

IT Industry - Deals

The Australian International School of Singapore (AISS) has expanded its 3Com-based campus-wide network with the addition of new network switches and an upgraded VOIP system from 3Com.

3Com says the network expansion at the Singapore school has also raised the network density at AISS to support the institution’s growing number of staff and students, with installation following the completion of a new four-storey building with classrooms for 800 students. The Singapore school, founded in 1993, has 2,350 students from kindergarten to high school level.

Scott Johnson, AISS director of ICT said the school had been a dedicated 3Com customer since it moved to its Lorong Chuan campus in 2003 and, after evaluating proposals from several leading network suppliers for the network expansion project, it had chosen to continue the partnership with 3Com as they provided the best value and performance.

Johnson said the new building at AISS is powered by a 3Com Switch 7758 modular gigabit chassis at the core, 13 3Com Switch 5500 edge switches and seven PoE (Power over Ethernet) switches that served 1,200 network points in total.
 
In addition, Johnson said that AISS had also upgraded its 3Com NBX telephony system to the latest VCX IP-PBX solution that was designed to support the easy integration of messaging and collaboration as well as other interactive multimedia services.

“And a few tough integration issues with the new VCX telephony system were quickly escalated and resolved by 3Com’s regional service support centre in Australia.”

Gene Ng, 3Com country manager for South Asia said the AISS experience “demonstrates how 3Com has earned the loyalty of its customers through the robustness and price-performance of our solutions and especially with the quality of our professional services.”