Two Decades of Smart Success!

K. R. Naik,
Executive Chairman, 
Smartlink Network Systems 

at the celebrations in Goa

Smartlink has celebrated its successful 20 years in the IT industry. Smartlink will be launching a series of initiatives and program to celebrate its "Two Decades of Smart Success" which intends to touch both partner and customers. The year 2011 has also seen the birth of fastest growing motherboard range of products under the DIGILITE brand.

K. R. Naik, Executive Chairman, Smartlink Network Systems Ltd said, "As we move from the year 2011 to the year 2012 we are excited to see great response and support from both customers and channel partners who have shown their preference for our brands. In turn we are committed to work closely with partners and customers.  Smartlink's core values include Quality, Trust and Commitment and we will look forward to further take Smartlink to greater heights."

Naik further said, "We wish to be among the top three Networking Brands in India in the next three years. Our confidence is driven from our experience of over Two decades of active products/solutions manufacturing, marketing and servicing. We also have the vast experience in manufacturing more than 8 million motherboard units at our Goa facility. At partner front we have worked closely with our partner community and have retained a culture of treating our partners as our large extended family and we will continue to value these relationships."

From a joint venture with D-link Corporation way back in 1990s, Smartlink Systems, announced the dawn of DIGILINK, in the early 2000s. With the passage of time, considering the opportunities and market dynamics, under Business Transfer Agreement, the DIGILINK business was transferred to Schneider Electric for Rs 503 Crores in 2010. Further, the company announced demerger of D-link from Smartlink in 2008. Though initially, D-Link (India) was made responsible for sales and marketing of D-Link's branded active networking products, both global and locally-developed products. On the other hand, Smartlink would handle the business of captive and contract manufacturing, R&D, VoIP, routing products, design and development and structured cabling. Since, there were no clause to not allow Smartlink to get into similar business later in 2011, Smartlink re-entered the Active Networking business. 

At present, Smartlink is poised for growth with three distinct businesses, DIGISOL, DIGILITE and DIGICARE. 

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Goa factory

Size:

Its built up area is 25000 x 13000 sq meter.
It is ISO 9001 : 2008 & ISO14001 : 2004 certified.

Products manufactured

The Goa factory takes care of manufacturing of DIGISOL- Active range of networking products which includes managed & unmanaged switches, routers, ADSL Modems, & Other wireless Networking Products. Next, it manufactures motherboards branded DIGILITE.

Shifts:

At present they run two shifts and its Employee Strength stands at 325.

Production capacity:

Production Capacity of Goa set up is as follows:
 

Expansion plans:

The company is planning to add one high speed SMT line to increase the Production Capacity and fulfill the necessities of their consumers.

USP

Our ruggedized SMPS designs used in our products help sustain power fluctuations. This makes our products most suitable for Indian environment.

Syeda Beenish
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