SMC Networks

Company Overview: SMC Networks is a leading provider of affordable, easy-to-use, high-performance networking solutions for the small and medium-sized business, broadband, and enterprise markets.

Joe Panettieri, Former Editorial Director

January 3, 2009

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Company Overview: SMC Networks is a leading provider of affordable, easy-to-use, high-performance networking solutions for the small and medium-sized business, broadband, and enterprise markets. With a global presence that supports customers throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, SMC leverages its heritage of over 35 years to deliver to market a level of quality, reliability and technological advancement that has established it as one of the premier network companies in the industry.

Since 2003, SMC has maintained a Green portfolio of networking products demonstrating its commitment to the environment at a very early stage while supporting it’s channel partners with solution offerings like their newly launched Managed Service Platform.  In 2008, In-Stat confirmed SMC’s commitment to go beyond cursory attempts at power management when it stated that SMC was one of the top five most energy efficient in the 24/48 port managed switch category.  SMC’s Green Policy is a key component of the company’s core strength that can be leveraged by its install base.

SMC Networks is headquartered in Irvine, Calif. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.smc.com or call (800) SMC-4YOU.

Founded in 1971 and with worldwide headquarters in Irvine, California in the United States, SMC Networks maintains its global presence by supporting customers from regional offices throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific and Japan.

Product Overview: SMC Networks Managed Services Platform is a powerful and fully featured network management solution. SMC Managed Service Platform on your network enables “proactive” and centralized network device management with powerful monitoring and alerts based on hardware/ software rules and thresholds to reduce unforeseen downtime. SMC Managed Services Platform supports all SMC network managed devices (managed switches and wireless access points) with SMC device specific monitoring and alerts. SMCMSP is also able to support management of 3rd party network devices and end nodes (client PCs).

Web-based System Monitoring and Alerts, Management Reporting, Remote Control, Firmware revision control, and Auditing allow automation of day to day IT tasks, improving efficiency and productivity of your infrastructure. Monitoring of hardware and software resources within the networks are non-intrusive and provide up to date information that can be used for accurate network and asset management.

SMC Networks Managed Service Platform is a tool it’s channel partners use to expand business while demonstrating value to clients.  Featuring a host of valuable supplemental IT management options, SMC partners allow for central and global management of network devices and clients PCs with predictable cost to fit any budgetary demand.

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About the Author

Joe Panettieri

Former Editorial Director, Nine Lives Media, a division of Penton Media

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