Luminous Networks

Luminous Networks, based in Cupertino, California, is a privately held access communications equipment company enabling service providers to offer information, communications and entertainment services to their customers. The Luminous solutions deliver superior service quality, efficiency and economics via a packet-based architecture utilizing Pseudo-Wire and Resilient Packet Ring (RPR, IEEE 802.17) technologies. The Luminous solutions protect investment in existing carrier infrastructures and natively support contemporary packet-based services. The Luminous PacketWave platforms deliver Packet Ring Switching to service providers with the robustness of SONET, the quality of ATM and the economics of Ethernet intended to minimize risk associated with augmented legacy solutions attempting to achieve these results.