SmartOptics strengthens its position as Market Leader for Fibre Channel transmission products with the recent approval of its CWDM platform and ELWL products in the latest Brocade 300, 5100, 5300 and DCX/DCX-4S Backbone ranges. SmartOptics products have been approved on Brocades Data Centre Ready matrix for a number of years enabling customers to maximise the investment in their Fibre Channel equipment. SmartOptics offers the industrys most comprehensive range of transmission products to provide simple and cost effective transport mechanisms for SAN and IP traffic between remote sites.

About the Brocade DCX Backbone 
Brocade DCX Backbones are highly robust 8Gb network switching platforms that combine breakthrough performance, scalability, and energy efficiency with long-term investment protection. Supporting open systems and System z environments, Brocade DCX Backbones are designed to address the data growth and application demands of evolving enterprise data centers; enable server, SAN, and data center consolidation; and reduce infrastructure and administrative costs.

"The Brocade DCX Backbone is an excellent consolidation platform for customers looking to implement server virtualization and gain greater performance, scalability and cost savings from their existing data center networking investments," said Simon Pamplin, SE Manager - UK & Ireland at Brocade. "Efficiency and performance are key aspects of the Brocade DCX Backbone, and by deploying SmartOptics' CWDM solutions we are able to maintain these features for our customers."

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