FREMONT, CA — June 6, 2005 -- SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX), a global IT supply chain services company, announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) to distribute TippingPointTM Intrusion Prevention Systems and related products in North America. Terms of the agreement grant to SYNNEX the right to distribute TippingPoint product offerings to U.S. and Canada based resellers. Solution providers will require TippingPoint certification to become an authorized reseller of these products.

Under this agreement, SYNNEX will distribute 3Com’s recently acquired TippingPoint line of enterprise-class intrusion prevention products, including the award-winning TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) family of products. TippingPoint is a leading provider of network-based intrusion prevention systems that deliver in-depth application protection, infrastructure protection, and performance protection for corporate enterprises, government agencies, service providers and academic institutions. The TippingPoint IPS is an in-line hardware platform that proactively ensures organizations are protected against internal and external cyber attacks that may threaten critical infrastructures.

“We’re extremely pleased to add TippingPoint’s suite of enterprise class security and communications products to our portfolio of product solutions,” stated John Paget, President of North America and Chief Operating Officer at SYNNEX Corporation. “With the highly intense level of security capabilities in TippingPoint’s IPS and related suite of products, we will be able to offer solution providers a unique and robust solution set to deliver to their enterprise customers seeking protection from threats to information security. We believe signing TippingPoint is a significant step in building our enterprise practice and will be a leading product line in our suite of enterprise product offerings.”

“SYNNEX brings years of experience selling and supporting the reseller channel with 3Com networking security products,” stated Nick Tidd, Vice President, North American Channel Sales of 3Com. “It’s a natural progression to authorize SYNNEX to distribute TippingPoint products and we feel confident with its success in this line.”

Steve Chappel, Senior Director of Global Channels at TippingPoint added, “We believe SYNNEX’ commitment to its solution providers, along with our support of SYNNEX’ efforts, will allow us to reach many new markets with our products. We look forward to working closely with SYNNEX on new opportunities for solution providers with TippingPoint security solutions.”

About SYNNEX
Founded in 1980, SYNNEX Corporation is a global IT supply chain services company offering a comprehensive range of services to original equipment manufacturers, software publishers and reseller customers worldwide. SYNNEX offers product distribution, related logistics services, demand generation marketing and contract assembly and works with the leading industry suppliers of IT systems, peripherals, system components, software and networking equipment. Additional information about SYNNEX may be found online at www.synnex.com.

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