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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 hy...

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...

Optical networking solutions are frequently advertised as easy to use. But what does that really mean? Many enterprise data center operators and service providers don’t have a huge team working day and night on DWDM links. Ease of use reduces the time y...

In our offerings and sales, we stake our reputation on openness. We aim to deliver flexible solutions that our customers can use as they please and help them find the best solution. We also see ourselves as a challenger who must work hard and go the ext...

Kent Lidström, CTO Smartoptics talks about the trends, challenges and opportunities in open optical networking or IP over DWDM. What are the main drivers on the market and what is the future in flexible networking?

SoSmart is a modular software suite for SDN-based management of Smartoptics products in an open, multi-layer and multi-vendor optical networking environment. In this video Alley Hameedi, Optical Transmission Specialist talks about the SoSmart Software S...

Smartoptics provides innovative, flexible open optical networking solutions and devices for the new era of open networking. Our market is driven by mega trends that generate strong demand for data traffic and higher capacity generating massive data grow...

Regardless whether you’re a service provider operating metro networks or a small carrier with a regional backbone network, a more open way of networking is increasingly high on the agenda. This flexible networking trend can also be called open optical n...