HONOLULU -- In the race to keep up with the ever-increasing connectivity and bandwidth demands of its constituents, the Hawaii Institutional Network (I-Net) has turned to LuxN, a leading provider of high-bandwidth multi-service optical access solutions, to enhance its existing fiber optic network. LuxN enables the I-Net to increase its network capacity and reach by deploying LuxN WavSystem(TM), a versatile and affordable optical access platform that simultaneously supports high-bandwidth data, video, storage, and other time division multiplexing services. LuxN WavSystem, which will underlay the existing I-Net OC-12 SONET infrastructure, preserves the existing investment, while enabling both an order of magnitude increase in bandwidth and the support of additional traffic, such as Gigabit Ethernet, over the same two-strand optical fiber plant.

"LuxN provided us with an elegant solution to get the extra capacity we needed from our current optical network without sacrificing our existing SONET investment," said University of Hawaii Director of Information Technology David Lassner. "The additional flexibility and bandwidth afforded by LuxN's optical access offerings literally does have far reaching benefits because we can extend our high-speed network access to outlying areas, furthering the I-Net's effectiveness in bridging the digital divides within Hawaii." Senator Colleen Hanabusa (D - Barbers Point to Makaha) noted that "this commitment to LuxN's optical solution will increase the educational opportunities in our often-neglected area."

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