SMC Networks (www.smc.com) announced today its plans to continue to roll-out networking solutions that include both products and managed services that respond directly to the needs of the Hospitality 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’s targeted to the needs and limitations of today’s businesses, and a development cycle that’s one of the fastest in the business.

Hospitality continues to be a focus market for SMC Networks. “Our dedication to the Hospitality Market comes out of a long history of strong integrator partnerships, a dynamic and evolving market, and numerous successful deployments,” said Keith Alexis, SMC Networks’ Vice President of Enterprise Sales for the Americas. “Successful deployments that come out of teamwork—superior partner support married with SMC Hospitality Solutions and delivered by the best VARs in the business.”

This year, SMC is enhancing its hospitality offerings with managed services and new and enhanced products. The switches in the company’s popular SMC88XX family now feature 4K VLANs, greater security protocols, and IPv6 to ensure greater integration capabilities for larger MDU/MTU environments. The company’s current VDSL2 product line is also being enhanced to offer high data rates for connections to hotel or apartment rooms; and the new VDSL2 24-port option launching at HITEC in June,is a component of SMC’s new Metro solution, is due to ship at the end of Q3, 2008. Smaller solutions are also a priority for SMC, with the new Hotspot Gateway that features AAA, SNMP, SSL/SSH, user authentication and accounting, and a host of other features designed to empower small MDUs or remote units with the kind of technology and security that used to be available to only larger institutional deployments.

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.

Jeff Ramsey Senior Account Executive at LaSalle Solutions, Inc. based out of Rosemont, IL was looking for a true partner to assist in customizing network configurations for a cutting edge solution designed for the hospitality marketplace. LaSalle has partnered with many of the top networking companies for many years and found that the size and channel structure of these entities did not allow for the needed flexibility and one on one support. “We were looking for a company that had the SMB mindset of personal service and flexibility to turn on a dime.” LaSalle turned to SMC networks to fill that need. “After meeting with the SMC network team and discussing our needs they addressed every action item in a timely and accurate manner.” “Since then SMC has been there whenever we need them, whether it be a 24 hour quote turnaround or a last minute conference call with a customer. They have been there for us every step of the way.” “The personnel at SMC are extremely easy to work with and they do anything in their power to assist us in winning the business.” With the support of SMC networks we at LaSalle feel the sky is the limit for our success. “SMC’s commitment to our initiatives demonstrates the true meaning of partnership.”

SMC’s technology continues to make the link that makes the difference. At its core, SMC’s user-friendly platforms for short learning curves, serviceability and reliability help VARs, MSOs, solution integrators and service management companies manage customers and their installations, now, and as needs change.

SMC’s technology for wireless networking, performance computing aggregation, regional office uplinks to corporate data centers, linked parallel processing and other bandwidth-intensive applications continue to find broad market acceptance, while its 10/100/1000 and its innovative 10G and 10GBASE-T solutions for high-bandwidth networking connections demonstrate its understanding of the needs of today’s various bandwidth-sensitive customers. And, SMC’s policy of providing team-focused reseller support that goes beyond the norm makes the design decisions for top notch networks easy with complimentary Wireless LAN Design Consulting to members of its Elite Partner Program (EPP). Once again, allowing the SMB to leverage SMC’s more than 30 years of experience at no cost.

Visit SMC Networks and see their solutions for the Hospitality industry first-hand at HITEC 2008, The Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition & Conference, June 16 - June 19 in booth #939 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. For more information about SMC Networks or its products, visit www.smc.com, or call 800-SMC-4You (800-762-4968).