ST. LAURENT, Quebec, Canada, March 16 -- Lumenon Innovative Lightwave Technology Inc. and Litton Poly-Scientific plan to jointly develop an advanced MEMS-based photonic switching solution. The initiative will leverage Litton Poly-Scientific's position in high performance and high reliability MEMS devices for critical applications and Lumenon's adaptive PHASIC process for manufacturing arrayed waveguide gratings devices. "This initiative is in response to the telecom industry's ever-increasing need to move traffic around the network faster and more cheaply and is in keeping with our strategy to be a leading optical solutions provider. We are very excited about teaming with Litton," said Mark Andrews, Lumenon's vice president and technology chief.