Abstract

3Com commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the company’s Open Services Networking (OSN) initiative. OSN is a communications infrastructure that can host strategic network applications to solve specific business platforms and address a host of issues that confront CIOs and network designers.

The goal of OSN is to furnish users with an open infrastructure that gives them a wide array of choices with regards to addressing business needs. Testing repeatedly showed that OSN is open to both commercial and Open Source applications, giving users the option of curbing costs via strategic applications. Moreover, test showed that OSN itself is based on a recent, up-to-date Linux operating system, that it is ready to host mission critical applications such as voice over IP (VoIP) and that it supports standard IP when interfacing with it host router.