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Resilient Networks Selects Luminous to Deliver Advanced Ethernet Services to Their Customers

Posted on: Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 06:00 CDT

Luminous Networks(TM), a leading provider of packet-based multi-service provisioning platforms that support voice, data, video, and wavelength services, announced today that it has been selected by Resilient Networks to deliver Ethernet services to its customers. Resilient Networks is a regional communications service provider that delivers an innovative suite of traditional and advanced services over fiber-based IP networks. Resilient selected the Luminous platform to interconnect the service providers' three facilities and transport Ethernet services such as Ethernet Private Line and Internet access.

"As a service provider, we are continually looking for ways to deliver a broad base of revenue-enhancing and cost-saving services to our customers," said Alec Ellsworth, CEO of Resilient Networks. "After evaluating several solutions from vendors in the marketplace, Luminous Networks gave us a way to add services across any physical transport while providing multiple classes of service. This flexibility on one platform was a winner for us."

"Luminous Networks provides an attractive option for service providers who need to scale their existing network to provide additional services while lowering the overall cost per megabit of bandwidth," said Chris Stark, president and CEO, of Luminous Networks. "We are delighted that Resilient Networks found the Luminous solution to be the most cost-effective and efficient means to extend their service offerings to their customers."

Luminous Networks combines new emerging revenue-bearing "opportunistic" services such as Ethernet Private Line, Transparent LAN Services (TLS), and traditionally "provisioned" services such as TDM voice and video, over a single operational platform. The service provider can provision any or all of the following services:

-- Point-to-point services (e.g. TDM or SONET/SDH cross connect, Ethernet private line)

-- Point-to-multipoint service (e.g. Direct Internet Access or DIA service, digital video broadcast, private line aggregation)

-- Multipoint service (e.g. Transparent LAN services, SONET/SDH grooming)

The Luminous Networks PacketWave(TM) product family consists of three classes of products -- the M, C and E-Series. PacketWave products currently support up to 2.5Gbps Ethernet rings and feature SONET OC-3, OC-12 and OC-48 network ring speeds. The same platforms can be configured for SDH networks in international markets. Customer-facing interfaces include Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, T1, E1, DS3, OC3, ASI Video, SDI Video and many more.

About Resilient Networks

Resilient Networks, LLC is a communications service provider offering an innovative suite of converged IP communications, managed network security services, and business continuity/disaster recovery services. Previously cost-prohibitive for small and mid-size organizations, these enterprise-class services help drive down operational costs and simplify networks. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., the company was founded in 2003 by a group of Internet and telecom executives who had a vision of blending the positive attributes of telecom culture with the entrepreneurial spirit of the Internet. For more information, visit Resilient on the Web at www.resilient-networks.net or contact us at 262-641-6700.

About 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 RPR and MPLS 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. Visit Luminous Networks on the web at www.luminous.com.

Luminous Networks, the Luminous mark, Luminous Management System and PacketWave are trademarks of Luminous Networks, Inc. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.

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