The investment, which is approximately $1m, extends Royal Thai Navy’s (RTN’s) relationship with 3Com as its preferred networking vendor. The new network backbone consists of 3Com core switches between the RTN’s headquarters in Bangkok and its Sattahip naval base supported by an optical fiber cable WAN network.
According to 3Com, the new network effectively delivers 10Gbps of bandwidth across the backbone network, and gigabit speeds across the distributed network, an improvement over the fast ethernet (100Mbps) speeds in the old network. It supports a wide range of applications, including electronic archiving, human resource management, financial management, supply management, and other in-house applications.
Suchart Nutchanart, head of operations for naval electronics department at the Royal Thai Navy, said: We require the most reliable and stable network solution to support the Navy’s very large and distributed IT network across the country. Since we have been working with 3Com, we have been very impressed with the performance and reliability of their technology as well as their excellent after-sales service, which includes training programs for our staff. Another reason for selecting 3Com was their ability to meet our requirements within a budget that represents great value for our organization.
