Sierra Pacific tries again:
CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Luminous Networks, Inc., the industry's first provider of carrier class Gigabit IP over Fiber optical access switches, today announced that Sierra Pacific Communications has successfully completed a beta test implementation of the Luminous Networks' PacketWave(TM) product. Sierra Pacific Communications, formed to provide telecommunications services to several growing western state markets, is looking to use the PacketWave to extend its services to metropolitan area markets in that region.
``Sierra Pacific Communications represents a growing market of utility company subsidiary ventures that Luminous Networks is positioned to serve with our technology,'' said Alex Naqvi, president and CEO of Luminous Networks. ``Many utility companies around the country are entering the telecommunications business to take advantage of the new competitive environment for these services while leveraging their understanding of customer needs in their home markets. Sierra Pacific is a leader in this area and will use the technical advantages of new equipment like our PacketWave technology to build a fast and scalable metropolitan access network infrastructure to complement their fiber optic backbone initiative.''
``Our goal is to provide an alternative path for high-speed communications, at a highly competitive rate, in one of America's fastest growing markets,'' said Pete Caron, director, business development for Sierra Pacific Communications. ``We're excited about Luminous Networks' PacketWave technology because it allows us to rapidly deploy ''virtual leased lines`` in a survivable packet ring, providing unique Ethernet and fractional Ethernet services along with traditional T1 services with the dependability
our customers demand. The PacketWave rings have demonstrated sub-50 millisecond survivability on both Ethernet and T1
services. PacketWave also enables us to take advantage of management efficiencies by handling both Ethernet and T1 on a single piece of equipment, while developing the metropolitan area network infrastructure that will scale as our business grows.''
Luminous Networks PacketWave optical access switches enable metropolitan access service providers to offer a rich set of IP and legacy circuit-based services, all on the same network. PacketWave products leverage Gigabit IP over Fiber technology enabling service providers to reliably deliver a wide range of services to their customers at the lowest cost per bit.
PacketWave switches make it possible for telecommunications carriers and service providers to transport large volumes of IP data traffic, along with traditional voice traffic, throughout a metropolitan area network (MAN) at a fraction of the cost of existing circuit-switched technologies. PacketWave supports both Ethernet (including fractional Ethernet) and T1 (synchronous, toll-quality, BellCore compliant) in the same unit.
PacketWave switches fit right into the MAN access ring architecture, providing a forward-looking technology with the capacity to handle rapidly- increasing data loads and the flexibility to adapt to a variety of applications with varying Class of Service requirements, without sacrificing system reliability or voice quality.
About Sierra Pacific Communications
Sierra Pacific Communications is an unregulated telecommunications company that offers a variety of high-speed telecommunications services over its local fiber optic networks in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada, and its long-haul fiber connecting Salt Lake City, Utah and Sacramento California through Reno. The company sells bandwidth services, such as high-speed Internet access, to other carriers and directly to large businesses. It is also registered in Nevada as a competitive local exchange carrier.
Sierra Pacific Communications is an unregulated subsidiary of Sierra Pacific Resources (NYSE: SRP - news), a utility holding company headquartered in Reno, Nev. Affiliates include: Sierra Pacific Power Co., the electric utility for most of northern Nevada and the Lake Tahoe area of California, and a natural gas and water distributor in the Reno area; Nevada Power Company, the electric utility for Las Vegas and most of southern Nevada; and the Tuscarora Gas Pipeline Co, which owns a 50 percent interest in an interstate natural gas pipeline company.
About Luminous Networks
Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Luminous Networks (www.luminousnetworks.com; 408-342-6400) enables
metropolitan access service providers to deploy high capacity, reliable, multi-service networks with its Gigabit IP over Fiber optical access switches. Founded in 1998, the company is led by a seasoned management team with broad experience in networking, telecommunications, optics, and semiconductors, and a proven success in taking start-up companies to IPO.
Luminous Networks is venture-funded by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Venture Partners, DynaFund Ventures, Vanguard
Venture Partners, Doll Capital Management, Thomas Weisel Partners, RWI Group, and Rader Reinfrank and Co., LLC.
Corporate investor includes Scientific-Atlanta.
Luminous Networks, the Luminous mark, The Gigabit Internet Company, Gigabit IP over Fiber, PacketWave and the Luminous Management System are trademarks of Luminous Networks, Inc. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.
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