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SmartOptics designs affordable fibre optical transmission products. Serving Storage, Data and Telco Networks worldwide with a unique C/DWDM transmission systems and a cost effective portfolio of optical transmission components.

Customers are turning to SmartOptics because we have a product portfolio which allows them to build the most cost effective and reliable transmission networks possible.
Optical transmission projects have historically been prohibitively expensive and complicated, but Smartoptics products allows solutions which are simple to design and easy to install.

How does it work ?

CWDM (Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing) and DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing) provides the ability to send multiple channels across a single physical fibre pair. CWDM supports up to 16 channels per fibre pair, and this can be grown to 40 Channel using DWDM wave lengths.

Light Splitting Technology

This technology works by splitting light up into light signals (colours) or waves. In this way multiple colours or waves can be sent down the same physical cable.

The SmartOptics solution is also an embedded WDM solution. SmartOptics use SFPs ( Small Form Factor ) which install directly into SAN switches and Ethernet Switches. Each SFP is colour coded, and a like-for-like colour is required at each data centre.

8-40 Multiple Channels

To support multiple channels over a physical fibre pair, a passive Multiplexer is used. Multiplexers can support from 8 to 40 channels, and as a passive device there is no power requirement. Since the SFPs become part of the SAN Switch or Ethernet Switch there is no additional software requirements.

Affordability ?

By utilising Smaartoptics embedded CWDM as opposed to implementing additonal fibres in an expansion project, can reduce capital costs by two thirds and operational costs by a similar amount. ( Based on a 4*4G FC expansion )

The reduction in operational costs is directly proportional to the number of CWDM wavelengths used by the system. Using 8 wavelengths will result in an 87% reduction in operational fibre costs. Resulting in a payback in terms of months !

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