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Join us at 2023 INDATEL BUSINESS SYMPOSIUM in Cleveland, OH – June 27-29

Sometimes called the super bowl of rural Ethernet conferences, INDATEL’s Annual Symposium gathers together members/owners, affiliates and preferred vendors for a three day conference.

SM Optics will be present the disaggregated optical line platform and micro-ROADM solution for unprecedented flexibility in WDM networks specifically made for Metro applications. We will be showing our WSS-Less ROADM technology that allows you to deploy ROADM capability for around the cost of a FOADM.

The LightMode Optical Transport System provides the following advantages over other WDM/Optical transport systems:

    • The ability to truly pay as you grow both in footprint and power

    • Independently deployed micro nodes can be stacked and treated as a single network element allowing for maximum scalability

    • The LightMode Optical Transport System uses a WSS-Less ROADM technology that allows ROADM networks to be built at the cost of a Fixed OADM Network (FOADM)

    • At SM Optics, we create our own chipsets to reduce supply chain risk, reduce footprint and cost

    • Using OTN for L1 muxing and switching is inherently low latency (over other technologies like L2/L3)

    • A highly pluggable system designed for Access networks allowing for the pluggability of even components of cards that other system provide no scalability for. For instance, our ROADM on a blade allows you to choose to not incorporate expensive components like pre-amps and booster amps when they are not necessary

 More info about the event at https://indatel.com/about-us/events/