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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 over RPR technologies. The Luminous solutions protect investment in existing carrier infrastructures and natively support Ethernet 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.
Northern Cablevision, based in Edmonton, Canada, provides high-Speed Internet, digital cable and cable television to communities throughout the Province of Alberta, Canada. In addition to providing packet-based services to businesses and residences, the Northern Cablevision network is also a major broadband connectivity solutions provider for schools, provincial government offices and libraries funded by the Alberta SuperNet project. Luminous Networks was selected because Northern Cablevision found a solution that had the reliability and manageability required for multiple, latency sensitive broadband service offerings while keeping network and operational costs in check. The success Luminous Networks has seen in the U.S. with the major Cable/MSO providers through its strategic partner Scientific Atlanta (NYSE:SFA) was also a deciding factor in Northern Cablevision's selection of Luminous Networks.