China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has certified Luminous Networks' PacketWave E-Series platform for metropolitan area networks. Luminous' PacketWave E-Series is a low-cost multiservice transport platform for 1 Gbps or 2.5 Gbps metro rings. Like Luminous Networks' existing M-series (metro core) and C-Series (metro access) platforms, the PacketWave E500 leverages RPR layer 2 technology to integrate Ethernet and TDM services using ring architectures that are cheaper and more bandwidth-efficient than SONET/SDH. RPR. The MII approval follows an extensive battery of voice and data tests performed by the MII in their Beijing lab. These included tests of PacketWave's throughput, latency, quality of service and network management. The PacketWave E-Series platform also successfully passed tests on the delivery of traditional Ethernet services; transparent Ethernet lease line services; TDM lease line services and MPLS services while experiencing heavy emulated Ethernet, TDM and PBX voice traffic. Luminous Networks said it is the first company with an entire product line based on Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) technology to receive MII approval.
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- In July 2003, Luminous Networks appointed Yudan Jin as general manager and president of Luminous China. Jin previously served as president of Marconi, Asia Pacific. He has also held several senior level positions at 3Com, Beijing, China Hewlett-Packard and the Ministry of Electronic Industry (MEI). Luminous has its China headquarters in Shanghai and recently opened a new sales and support office in Beijing.
Luminous Networks has previously disclosed deployments with China Netcom among others. China Netcom is deploying Luminous' metro platform in nine cities, including Shanghai, Dalian, Guangzhou, Foshan, Shunde, Mianyang, Quanzhou, Shaoxing, and Jiaxing.
