3Com hopes that the addition of a new name will help them become a major player in the enterprise networking space again. With the US debut of H3C; once a joint venture between 3Com and Huawei of China which is now owned by 3Com; 3Com now has some major switch and router products geared at the large enterprise. These new products were announced a few weeks ago, but the first major push appears to have happened at this year’s InterOp. 3Com had a major space and a new red color scheme for their InterOp booth which showed off many new products. While some of them are not quite ready for the USA (IP Surveillance being one), most were products that you can get very soon. The major item on display was the new S12500 which based on specs has twice the density, the performance, and half the power consumption as the Cisco Nexus 7000 at up to 30% less expensive. If this is true then there might something to consider when building out your next datacenter. 3Com also was showing off the S5800 a new fixed configuration switch with some impressive spec also. One thing missing from 3Com’s InterOp showing was much in the way of SMB products. While the VCX VoIP system was on display it was focused on the enterprise as well. This may leave some to wonder about where this leaves SMB customers of 3Com that has been using their Super Stack line of switches or the NBX VoIP platform. With 3Com’s public statements about their focus on the enterprise this may be up for debate. But if you are an enterprise organization with the need to get maximum performance while saving some money you might want to give them a second look.