Smartoptics announced that Novoserve, an innovative Dutch Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, has chosen Smartoptics as its preferred optical transport supplier. Smartoptics open line systems, optics and transponders are used to provide a high-capacity and cost-efficient DWDM solution for the Dutch IaaS provider's backbone network. Novoserve specializes in bare metal hosting solutions with over 10TB capacity, 7,000 dedicated servers deployed and 10 points of presence.

The IaaS provider has three data centers in the Netherlands and one in the US state of New Jersey. To meet growing bandwidth needs, Novoserve needed to upgrade the capacity of its backbone network. After evaluating Smartoptics open line systems and a competing solution, a decision was made to move forward with Smartoptics based on advantages including ease of use, 400G-readiness and cost efficiency.