Luminous Networks manufactures access network equipment targeting Services Providers who want to deliver Shared Ethernet Services . Unlike competitive solutions, Luminous Networks products provide low first-in unit cost and a fraction of the cost per Mbps of nearest competitive offering. More importantly, Luminous Networks technology enables greater revenue of 3 or more times nearest competitive offering.
Based in Cupertino, California, Luminous Networks is privately funded. As an access communications equipment company, it enables service providers to offer information, communications and entertainment services to their customers. The Luminous solutions deliver superior service quality, efficiency and economics. The unique underlying technology is a packet-based architecture utilizing IEEE 802.17 standard Resilient Packet Ring (RPR), pseudo-wire technologies and a management plane delivering unprecedented service provisioning velocity.
The Luminous solutions protect investment in existing carrier infrastructures and natively support contemporary packet-based services. Luminous PacketWave products deliver the robustness of SONET, the quality of ATM and the economics of Ethernet. This minimizes the risks associated with deploying augmented legacy solutions attempting to achieve these results.
