SMC expands product offerings for small office

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA: SMC Networks has announced its plans to continue to roll out networking solutions that respond directly to the needs of the small and medium businesses (SMB) market, and to deliver its advanced platforms through the company's channel partner experts, specialized VARs, resellers, MSOs and technology partners.

SMC's customer-oriented solutions focus comprises tight integration with its technology and channel partners for hands-on understanding of customer applications and requirements, as well as product innovation that is targeted to the needs and limitations of today's businesses, and a development cycle that is one of the fastest in the business.

SMC Networks will continue to expand upon and enhance its successful high-performance networking product portfolio with solutions that make it possible for more companies to leverage high bandwidth availability in their networks. With 10G fiber switches and copper and fiber adapters, advanced cable solutions in the MSO space, and a customer-focused, feature-rich approach to the market being very well received, SMC continues to expand its evolving platform that's focused on quality, value and best-of-breed technology.

SMC has proven that the market is hungry for performance and bandwidth. The company's standards-based 10G over copper switch, the SMC8724-10BT standalone switch with 20 10GBASE-T ports and four XFP-based 10G fiber ports will ship in early Q3 to a ready market. This, and the rest of its broad range of current SMC Networks 10Gigabit, Gigabit and 10/100 Ethernet products, give its partners the toolkit they need to build efficient networks that fill the needs of today's SMB.

Already an approved cable gateway vendor to eight of the top ten MSOs in the United States, SMC's success in today's highly-competitive cable CPE market is based upon its focus on customer partnership and on product development that meets partner-customers' specific needs, rather than delivering products driven by retail forces.

Hospitality has been a key focus for SMC as well. This year, the company is enhancing the switches in its popular SMC88XX family with 4K VLANs, greater security protocols, and IPv6 to ensure greater integration capabilities for larger MDU/MTU environments.. SMC's innovative product portfolio and responsive stance have solidified the company's reputation as a partnership asset over the past year, and will drive its further penetration into the Hospitality market.