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Smartoptics' ambition is to offer best-in-class support services to you as a customer. Our support services are delivered by in-house engineers to ensure maximum efficiency, minimum disruption, and the most value for money. Now, we are taking an additi...

Smartoptics’ unique certification for Brocade Gen 7 didn’t just happen overnight. Our embedded approach and reliability have made us a key partner of Broadcom, Brocade OEMs and Brocade distributors for a long time. Hundreds of enterprises such as banks,...

If you’re a bank, retailer, airline, pharmaceuticals company, government agency or some other organization with a mission-critical SAN using Brocade switches, then you’ll need to upgrade to the 7th generation of Brocade sooner or later. At Smartoptics,...

With the only 32G optics certified by Broadcom for Gen 7 and the only end-to-end layer 1 transport solution tested for Gen 7, Smartoptics is a safe bet for your Brocade network. You can count on maximum compatibility and no hassle with the least margin...

Smartoptics offers optical transmission solutions that make networks more powerful. The objective is to provide the best solution in terms of cost and simplicity for each and every application. One important component of this strategy is to enable embed...

Generation 7 of Brocade Fibre Channel switches offers many benefits for organizations with mission-critical workloads such as financial institutions, retailers and government agencies. However, before you either postpone upgrading or rush forward too q...

Your DCI may not have been the first thing on your mind when planning to upgrade to Brocade Gen 7. But it’s important not to forget the DWDM optics used with your Brocade switches for a number of reasons. For starters, Gen 7 won’t work with transceivers...

In today's competitive business landscape, companies often wonder what their most valuable asset is. What really makes a company thrive? Is it the customers who fuel their growth or the employees who drive innovation and deliver exceptional service? At...

In today's rapidly expanding IT landscape, many organizations are faced with the challenge of fiber exhaust. Installing additional fiber infrastructure is often impractical due to permitting roadblocks, construction delays, and financial constraints. To...

Rural broadband service providers (BSPs) face increasing data traffic as the connected society takes hold, which puts pressure on backbone network performance. This has driven the development of 400ZR for enabling 400G speeds with flexible hardware conf...

Cost efficiency is becoming increasingly important for everyone operating optical networks and interconnecting data centers, given energy and fiber costs. The money you spend is most likely not coming out of some gigantic tier 1 service provider or hype...

These days, everyone is talking about openness. Almost every optical networking provider’s website advertises “openness”. But what does open really mean, and what should you expect from a truly open solution? If you take a closer look, it’s apparent tha...