Luminous Upgrades PacketWave

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Luminous Networks today announced the M2500 platform for its PacketWave™ metro area network access switches that boasts 2.5Gbps ring speeds and dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM), giving telecommunication and cable service providers unprecedented flexibility and scalability in a single system. Current Luminous customers can also upgrade their 1 Gbps M1000 PacketWave platforms to 2.5 Gbps without incurring any service downtime. The M2500 PacketWave platform, targeted at Metropolitan Area Access Networks, enables service providers to offer a wide range of revenue-generating services such as 100 Mbps Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, broadcast and interactive video, T1/E1, virtual private networks, toll-quality telephony and Internet access over metropolitan fiber-optic rings. Just like its predecessor M1000, the M2500 features Resilient Packet Transport, RPT, which is a superset of the Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) standard under development at IEEE 802.17 RPR standards body. "The strength of our metro optical platforms allow service providers to selectively customize their networks to cope with constantly changing and growing service needs,” said Alex Naqvi, president and chief executive officer of Luminous Networks. "PacketWave platforms now scale from 1Gbps to 2.5Gbps ring speeds. With the DWDM option, the PacketWave platform can scale up to 16 wavelengths, each operating at up to 2.5Gbps, enabling service providers to build highly modular and scalable networks." Luminous Networks Inc.