STOCKHOLM and MELBOURNE, Australia -- Lumentis, provider of optical transport solutions, announces an agreement with Uecomm Limited, a specialized fiber broadband carrier located in Australia to deliver high-bandwidth and reliable storage area network (SAN) services to OM Australia, a world-leading provider of transaction technology for the financial services and energy industries. Uecomm found the Lumentis Mentis platform to be cost-effective and flexible. The unamplified optical solution that Lumentis provides facilitated the building of a scalable network infrastructure to meet OM's needs.

Uecomm provides a MetroWave service that allows organizations like OM to communicate large quantities of data at high speeds to multiple locations. Lumentis provides its Mentis optical transport platform that provides the transport infrastructure to assist with the offering of high-end enterprise services such as SAN along with increased bandwidth to enable real-time backup of data. This winning combination also provides Uecomm's network with the flexibility to deliver transport services with a range of different protocols such as IP, SDH, FibreChannel, Gigabit Ethernet, etc.

"By selecting the best optical transport partner for this project, Lumentis, we were able to secure a three-year contract with OM," said Brendan Park, Products & Marketing Director for Uecomm. "Working with Lumentis assisted us in bringing to OM a solution that fit their needs for high-bandwidth managed services. It is this flexible approach to business that continues to bring us new customer opportunities in the corporate and government sectors."

"We're glad to be working with Uecomm to establish the network and to serve OM again as we expand our global presence with our unique unamplified optical solution," said Par Johanson, Director of Sales and Marketing. "This build-out for a high-bandwidth data network is yet another example of the capabilities of our Mentis platform."

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