BANGALORE, INDIA: 3Com Corporation announced its next-generation H3C S12500 large core/data centre switching platform. The switches were tested at The Tolly Group, an independent testing organization, and Spirent’s TestCenter platform, which validated the S12500’s ability of the switches.

Qiu Wei, network operation and maintenance director, Sohu, a China-based online community destinations, who recently purchased the H3C S12500 platform data center solution, said: “Based on the outstanding results H3C equipment provided, we chose H3C for our data centre, and we are confident it will provide exceptional availability of services, readily meet increasing bandwidth requirements, and capably support any emerging new services we offer our community members.”

In both tests, the S12500 demonstrated superior performance for layer 2, layer 3 (for both IPv4 and IPv6) and MPLS. The Spirent test validated the H3C S12518 supported 100 percent throughput with zero packet loss across 128 10 GE (non-blocking) ports while forwarding L2 unicast, L3 IPv4 unicast, L3 IPv6 unicast, and L3 MPLS traffic.

Saar Gillai,  senior vice president, worldwide products and solutions, 3Com, said: “3Com set out to develop an industry-leading large core/data center switch with its H3C S12500 platform that delivers on the reliability, security, scalability and performance required to meet the demands of today’s network operations. These test results validate our products deliver on what we promise and the unbeatable scale and performance of the S12500 make it a clear leader among current data center switch offerings.”