Eric Litvin of Luma Optics Reports 500,000 AI Hardware Units Deployed with Sub-0.01% Failure Rate
Sebastopol, United States - November 13, 2026 / Luma Optics /
SEBASTOPOL, Calif. — As November turns to December, the AI data center orders placed earlier in the year become rack-level deployment schedules. At that stage the question is no longer whether an optical transceiver meets its specification, but whether every unit in a shipment behaves the same as the last one. That is the work Eric Litvin, Co-Founder and President of Luma Optics, is closing the year on.
Eric Litvin and the year-end deployment record
Luma Optics designs 100G, 400G and 800G optical transceivers, including an 800G line built for NVIDIA GB200 GPU fabric, where a cluster is only as fast as the links between its racks. The company's deployment record stands at more than 500,000 units, with a field failure rate under 0.01% and roughly 30% lower power consumption per unit on its transceivers.
Those figures are the same ones Luma Optics has published through the year. In a quarter when deployment schedules are being locked in, a record that holds steady is the point.
How the consistency is built
Luma Optics pairs its transceiver designs with a patent-pending robotic calibration platform, ML-powered diagnostics, and optimization pods tuned for specific data center environments. Each serves the same goal: AI hardware that performs the same way across a large installed base and is set up for the facility it runs in.
Two decades in optical networking
Eric Litvin has spent more than 20 years building optical networking products for hyperscale data centers and AI compute clusters. He co-founded Luma Optics in 2004. The company is headquartered in Sebastopol, California, with operations in the Netherlands.
About Luma Optics
Luma Optics designs 100G, 400G and 800G optical transceivers for hyperscale AI data centers, including 800G transceivers engineered for NVIDIA GB200 GPU fabric, a patent-pending robotic calibration platform, ML-powered diagnostics, and optimization pods tuned to specific data center environments. Eric Litvin is Co-Founder and President. Learn more about Eric Litvin.
Contact Information:
Luma Optics
105 Morris St, Suite 160
Sebastopol, California 95472
United States
Eric Litvin
(866) 435-6730
https://ericlitvin.ai
