LightRiver takes home the 2019 PTC Innovation award for 'Best Network Intelligence Innovation' Much excitement was in the air at the PTC'19 Innovation Awards Gala held yesterday evening as ten organizations received the honor of accepting awards in recognition of their important technology innovations. Of those ten organizations, we are proud to especially recognize our esteemed [...]
A virtual Who's Who of IT experts and providers will share best practices and trends in cloud computing, unified communications, and IT resilience at FirstLight's Cloud Connect Summit on Thursday, November 15th at the Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York. Don't miss the next in FirstLight's growing Cloud Connect Summit series! Attending the event will [...]
LightRiver is the proud recipient of the 2018 TMT News Award for Best Next-Gen Optical Communication Technology Provider - USA & Most Sophisticated Telecom Network Deployment Product The Telecoms Awards 2018 rewards the most respected businesses in the ever-growing industry; all of whom rely on the innovations in the communications industry to ensure they can connect [...]
Multivendor Optical Domain Controller Upgrade 3.8.0 Boosts DWDM & Ethernet Visibility LightRiver Software, a pioneer and leader in multivendor optical network automation and control, has expanded its RedHat Linux Server features set, DWDM and DCI capabilities and Carrier Ethernet enhanced visibility. The company's new netFLEX® software release 3.8.0 leverages the most widely deployed server OS to [...]
20-Year Milestone Marks an Exciting Time of Expansions, Enhanced Service Offerings, and Innovation Happy anniversary to The LightRiver Companies, the premier optical network integration solution provider for next generation, multi-vendor, Factory Built Networks® and netFLEX®, Transport Domain Orchestration Software solutions! This month, the company is celebrating its 20-year anniversary. Founded in 1998, LightRiver offers a multi-vendor [...]
Coming on the heels of LightRiver’s acquisition of Unique Computer Services, which included the industry-leading product, netFLEX®, is the announcement of a newly accessible encrypted wavelength feature within the software. If you aren’t familiar with netFLEX®, the product enables transport network operators of all shapes and sizes to efficiently provision and manage anything from just a [...]
Another well-deserved award for LightRiver Technologies, Inc., the leader in Factory Built Network® design and commissioning of multi-vendor packet optical networks. Technology Media Telecom (TMT) News has awarded LightRiver as the Best Next-Gen Optical Communication Technology Provider for 2017. The TMT News Award recognizes LightRiver’s Factory Built Network® solution as the USA’s “Most Sophisticated Telecom Network [...]
In follow up to LightRiver’s news earlier this week about working with NV Energy on a critical network build, LightRiver announces today its new partnership with Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL). As partners, LightRiver and SEL will offer communication networking technology, solutions, and services that deliver the performance and security required for demanding industrial control system [...]
LightRiver Technologies, Inc. has prided itself on Factory Built Network® design and commissioning, and has engaged with many leading companies. Another such project was noted today with the announcement that NV Energy Inc., headquartered in Las Vegas, selected LightRiver to perform a significant network build. NV Energy is the largest Nevada utility, providing a wide range of energy services to [...]
As a leader in Factory Built Network® design and commissioning, LightRiver Technologies is excited to join a project that brings together the industry’s leading innovators - Telecom Infra Project (TIP). TIP is an engineering-focused initiative, co-founded by Facebook and operators such as Deutsche Telekom, to reimagine the traditional approach to building and deploying telecom network infrastructure. [...]
Fiber optics date as far back as the Roman times with the use of glass inside fibers, and has evolved with various advancements along the way such as the optical telegraph in 1790’s by the Chappe Brothers and the optical telephone system in 1880, patented by Alexander Graham Bell. It’s hard to imagine that a fiber [...]
LightRiver has been enlisted! As a leader in Factory Built Network® design and commissioning, East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC), has chosen LightRiver to provide the design and engineering services to implement a new core network. Owned by 16 electrical distributions cooperatives, EKPC serves over 530,000 homes and businesses in 87 Kentucky counties. Looking to significantly upgrade [...]
LightRiver Technologies, Inc., a leader in Factory Built Network® (FBN) design and commissioning, has made the news several times this year for developing partnerships with companies that are a strategic fit. That means collaborations with complementary organizations, that are able to enhance what LightRiver has to offer, and vice versa. To that end, LightRiver announced today [...]
Dover International Speedway (DIS) recently worked with Ciena® (NYSE: CIEN) and Broad Valley Micro Fiber Networks Inc. to upgrade its facilities for the digital age. Broad Valley designed, constructed, and is operating DIS’s new WiFi over Ethernet/Fiber platform using Ciena’s packet networking solutions. Launched at the NASCAR race weekend on May 13, the upgrade helps eliminate [...]
LightRiver Technologies, Inc., a leader in Factory Built NetworkTM design and commissioning, is always on the lookout for talented telecom professionals. It is an exciting, dynamic workplace at the center of next generation technology. A great team is essential to executing the mission of providing next-generation transport solutions to independent network operations. That is why the [...]
Welcome to the 45th issue of Telecom News & Trends (TNT), JSA‘s newsletter featuring the latest telecom news, videos, industry events, resources, career opportunities and trends happening now in our industry. We have put together our top headlines we kicked-off 2016 with here at JSA. Thank you for an exciting start to what is looking like a [...]
