SynOptics
| Company type | Public | 
|---|---|
| Nasdaq: SNPX | |
| Industry | Networking equipment | 
| Founded | 1985 | 
| Defunct | October 1994 | 
| Fate | Merged with Wellfleet Communications | 
| Successor | Bay Networks | 
| Headquarters | Santa Clara, California, US | 
| Key people | Andrew 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.