 Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scott-Oktayev, JSA, and joining me here in fabulous Honolulu, Hawaii, PTC 2018. My good friend, Mike Jonas, he is the president of global customer relations at Light River Technologies. Mike, welcome to JSA TV again. Great to see you again. We should do this more than once a year. I know. This is our PTC reunion here. Absolutely. I'm glad of it. Me as well. Me as well. And for our viewers who may not already know, and they should at this point, but just in case, give us a little bit of an overview of Light River and its services. Yeah, you bet. So Light River has been in business 20 years next month. So we've been striving to be the leader, leading integrator for transport networks, for software control transport networks. And lately the model towards disaggregation is playing directly into our wheelhouse. So have developed, in support of that, a multi-vendor optical lab, a network factory designed specifically to put together packet optical networks for the global cloud players, for utilities, and for the tier one and tier two carriers. So it's been working great, so much so that we've added software domain control and SDN optical controller to that portfolio and are moving forward. Yeah, you're talking about all the hot topics of the day. So we're loving how you guys just keep on point and moving forward. As a matter of fact, last time you were here at JSA TV, you made big news in the industry when you acquired unique computer services. That was about a year ago. So what can you tell us about that acquisition, the latest development sense in? I know you're again on point. Well, absolutely. So in keeping with our model, we're trying to make sure that these software controlled networks, they are going to be the future that are the current. And so we have this habit of listening to our customers. That's a bad habit, I know. It's very rare these days. We happen to think they know a lot about their business. And so in our mission to provide them best of breed technologies for the business issue they're trying to solve, do it more quickly, reduce that risk, they've all adopted and become very comfortable with the factory built model where we take the risk out, where we shorten the cycle, where we enable the adoption and integration of new technologies. So they opined, they are all very, very eager and believe in the promise of SDN, but have been a little disillusioned in the pace of its rollout. And so as they discussed that with us, they said, if only you had a factory built network solution for software, so we got one. And that way that was the acquisition for unique. They've been in the business also 20 years deploying software platforms that are multi-vendor, multi-generational. And intuitively obvious, if you're in the optical transport space, that domain controller makes sense. So not only do you get the technology, you also get the expertise. Well, and that's it. So we've built the company now in addition to the factory, in addition to the lab, in addition to our optical domain controller, we've got 100 professionals, highly skilled professionals that are focused on nothing but transport. We don't get distracted by IT. We don't get distracted in Wi-Fi. We don't do the things that so many others do, but we stick to our knitting. And as a packet optical specialist, we make a real difference for them in their business. I love that. So how do you see that Netflix and factory built network solutions moving forward come 2018? Well, so over the holidays, due to demand, we had to reconfigure our factory. So we added about 50% capacity to the factory. So we grew our ability to build large national networks. We have an area specializing for regional metros. And now we've actually also added an area where we can package VNFs into some of the server hardened servers for our utility customers and white boxes for some of our more commercial customers. So it's a big expansion there. On Netflix, perfectly in keeping, it's deployed in our factories. So our customers not only get hands on their own equipment in the factory process, but now they can get an eye on how to manage that across multiple product domains, multiple vendor domains. And we'll be adding enhanced Linux capability this year. And that will make our product a bit more consumable for larger and smaller customers. Right now, we have clients anywhere from 100 nodes up to hundreds of thousands of nodes. So we have 600,000 nodes currently under management. We'll make it much more consumable by moving into the Linux platform. And that'll give us some other options as it comes to access, gives us some mobile activity and the opportunity to even host this for some of the smaller customers who may not be quite ready to have their own instance. I like that flexibility. And that's true to your DNA. So what other exciting developments are on the horizon for LightRiver next year? Well, so we are expanding further in Europe. We are deploying networks for several of the global data center and cloud players. So that's going to continue and we're going to grow that delivery team there. Additionally, we are looking with our Netflix product to light up our own channel partners in Europe to help start bringing that message, again, specialized to the local market to the carriers and the data center players there in the EU. So that's big. We'll be deploying a lot more new technology at our next generation technology in the optical space keeps on coming. So C plus L rodems, 400 gig networks, those are coming. And then in our utility customer base, we'll be doing a lot more betas initially on how they might take operational utility operational virtual network functions and start removing those dozens of boxes in their substations and securing them in that new shell that's going to be so prevalent in the next five or 10 years. Definitely a company that's helping us in enabling us to keep up with that high bandwidth demand. LightRiver technologies, Mike, always a pleasure. Thank you so much for joining us. My pleasure. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV.