Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) has signed up 3Com to deploy a scalable, future-proof core-to-edge IP network infrastructure for the two campuses of Adnoc’s Glenelg School at Al Raha Beach, Abu Dhabi.

Glenelg School provides a high class education for UAE and expatriate students by using state of the art technology.

3Com's integrated voice and data solution satisfied Adnoc's stringent technical requirements in terms of features, switching speed, availability and scalability, and offered the best price/performance and the highest levels of manageability, said a company official.

'As Adnoc is focused on investment protection, the network also had to be easily expandable to meet future requirements, fully redundant for business continuity, and fully supported by first-class continuous service,' noted Khaled Al Marzouqi of Adnoc.

“The 3Com solution implemented at Glenelg School is scalable and can easily be upgraded to accommodate future requirements,” he noted.

“Basically, the school will not have to purchase any additional network components for the next 3 years. Most important of all, IT administrators at the school can manage the entire network from one platform,” Al Marzouqi added.

The 3Com solution consists of two 3Com Switch 8814s for full redundancy at the core, and the server farm.

Access layer consists of 38 3Com 48-port Switch 5500Gs, and a centralized wireless solution consisting of dual 3Com WX2200 Wireless Controllers, 3Com Wireless Switch Manager and 80 3Com Access Points 2750 and 3750.

Voice over IP is provided by a 3Com V7005 VCX IP telephony solution, scalable up to 55,000 users.

The whole network is managed by 3Com Network Director and supported by 3Com Express Maintenance support service 3Com and specialist Gold Channel Partner Advanced Technical Solution (ATS) commenced work on the project in August 2008 and completed the installation within just three weeks.

“This major win in education - one of 3Com’s strongest sectors – underlines once again our strength in high performance, high value networking both at the edge of the network and at the core,” said Mahmoud El Ali, 3Com general manager, Mena. “Our channel partner ATS was instrumental in the win,” he added.-TradeArabia News Service