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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...

Whether you’re managing enterprise data center interconnect (DCI) or an internet exchange, net. work openness is becoming increasingly important. The push for greater capacity, flexibility and cost efficiency is driving the adoption of open optical netw...

The market for optical networking solutions has undergone some major shifts in the past years. Mid-sized vendors have largely disappeared due to consolidation. Increasing demand for more open and flexible optical networking is driving a revolution in th...

NTT Communications, a global Tier-1 ICT solutions provider based in Japan, chose the Smartoptics DCP-R ROADMs to interconnect major data centers in Tokyo and accelerate the expansion of its research and development network.

Disaggregated networks have been gaining in importance, especially for service provider metro networks and enterprise DCI. By engineering open optical network solutions, Smartoptics and LightRiver have both been working hard for years to enable effectiv...

As you probably know, 400G technologies are powerful, offering many additional benefits to networking. But did you know that getting started with 400G over Smartoptics open line systems actually is really easy?

In March 2021, Smartoptics announced that service provider POST Luxembourg had chosen the Smartoptics open line system for upgrading its backbone network to 400G. As one of the first commercial installations in the world based on the new 400ZR standard,...

The most obvious reason for upgrading to 400G is the possibility to create networks with higher capacity than existing networking solutions. This enables you as a service provider or enterprise to meet the increasing demands for more bandwidth. But 400G...

Upgrading to 400G brings a number of benefits to both service provider networks and for enterprise DCI – the most obvious being the possibility to create networks with higher capacity than existing 40G and 100G solutions. But what else does 400G bring t...

Open line systems present numerous benefits to operators and service providers. Organizations are no longer forced to buy all components of a networking solution from the same supplier. Today’s open line systems allow service providers to pick and choos...