Lumentis, a start-up based in Stockholm, has supplied its optical transport platform to Uecomm, a specialized fiber broadband carrier in Australia. The unamplified Lumentis metro equipment is being used to provide transport for high-end enterprise services such as real-time, SAN backup of data. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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- In March 2003, Lumentis AB introduced a compact, single-slot 10 Gbps transponder for its metro optical networking platform. The 10 Gbps Transponder offers performance monitoring and Forward Error Correction (FEC) capabilities. It supports Gbps SDH/SONET and 10GbE traffic.
Lumentis also introduced an add-drop and terminal SDH/SONET network solution over CWDM or DWDM wavelengths. The compact device provides a standards-compliant SDH/SONET VC-4 switching system with G.703 standard physical interfaces, standard G.781 synchronization, standard G.813 jitter and wander, and performance monitoring according to G.826. With a line rate of STM-16/OC-48, each wavelength can carry a logical SDH/SONET point-to-point, bus, or ring network with STM-1/OC-3 and STM-4/OC-12 add-drops.
Lumentis offers an un-amplified, 40-wavelength capable DWDM system that is able to tolerate increased levels of optical loss. The Lumentis DWDM platform uses off-the-shelf components and could carry up to 40 wavelengths on a fiber pair without optical line amplifiers - at least twice the capacity of competitive systems. Lumentis estimates that amplifiers can represent up to half of the initial network investment needed to light up the first wavelength.
Lumentis was founded in September 2000 by former engineers from Ericsson's optical networking unit. The company is funded by Deutsche Bank Industrial Holdings AG.
