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.
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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.
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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.
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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.