HP Claims 50 Percent Better Network Performance Than Cisco

From DailyTech: HP and IBM are currently the top producers of business servers. However, with its $2.7B USD acquisition of 3COM, a leading networking solutions provider, HP is looking to step up its all-around networking solutions efforts, challenging Cisco in the arena of networking hardware and software.

The key to its efforts, HP says, is that its new networking solutions, which offer 50 percent better performance than Cisco's at 30 to 50 percent cost (we're guessing Cisco would disagree). HP also accuses Cisco of maintaining a massive 80 percent profit margin (this would perhaps be less surprising; some electronics companies approach this big a margin, including Apple).

HP was showcasing its networking wares at the Everything Channel's VAR500-CIO50 Conference in New York on Tuesday (VAR stands for Value Added Reseller). It was talking up executives atDimension Data, Worldwide Technology, Presidio and CompuCom, some of Cisco's biggest VAR customers.

The company has also been courting the top 10 systems integrators and top 10 carriers in the country. And it's also approached many small to midsize businesses (SMBs) about its smaller scale networking solutions.

Armughan Ahmad, who helped build out the 3Com enterprise networking channel, has been named as HP's new vice president, Americas Channel Sales, HP Networking. He's playing the role of chief evangelist for the HP's efforts, stating, "[Our products offer] twice the performance, 50 percent less energy usage, are 35 to 50 percent less expensive and are easier to manage [than Cisco's]. We have the full gamut of networking products. My message is 'let's go win some deals together."

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