SynOptics

SynOptics Communications, Inc.
TypePublic
Nasdaq: SNPX
IndustryNetworking equipment
Founded1985
DefunctOctober 1994
FateMerged with Wellfleet Communications
SuccessorBay Networks
HeadquartersSanta Clara, California, US
Key peopleAndrew K. Ludwick, Founder and CEO

SynOptics Communications, Inc., was a Santa Clara, California-based early computer network equipment vendor from 1985 until 1994. SynOptics popularized the concept of the modular Ethernet hub and high-speed Ethernet networking over copper twisted-pair and fiber optic cables.