 This is JSATV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Dean Perine, and welcome to JSATV. We've got a familiar face in the seat with us today, Mr. Mike Jonas. Mike is the president of Light River Technologies, and I should add that we are actually coming to you live from the Lone Star State of Texas, Dallas, Texas, to be exact, at Encompass 2016. Mike, how are you? I'm doing great, and glad to be here with you, trialing some new technology. Trialing the new technology. Hopefully you folks at home can appreciate the fact that we are actually live streaming some of this right now. So let's get jumped right into this, Mike. I'm looking around now. It looks like the show floor is filling up pretty good. How is the show going for you? So far, so good. I mean, we have a lot of the decision-makers here we wanted to meet with, and a lot of time spent one-on-one, which is what we really want when we come here. And then we have some great rallying points to get together and start those conversations from. Outstanding, we're going to talk about those rallying points in just a second. But really quick for our viewers who don't already know, and if you don't, shame on you. Why don't you tell them a little bit about Light River? Well, Light River's been almost 20 years in the business of building optical networks for people who need quality and resiliency and predictability. So that's all we do. We don't work in the land. We build high-capacity networks, optical networks for people using DWDM, MPLS, and carrier ethernet. Very cool. So what's the latest and greatest? I know you want to get to this part. Well, the latest and greatest is it's working well. Congratulations. The technology focus is right. The network focus is right. Certainly the industry trends are in our favor. Our focus in some core vertical markets, the carriers, the cloud providers, and for us investor-owned utilities continue to pay significant dividends. Knowing that technology is good. It's helpful. It's the cost of getting into the game. But knowing how our customers need to use it so they can propel their own business makes all the difference for us and for them. Outstanding. And obviously, with 20 years in your pocket, you must be doing something right over there at Light River. But let's talk about the next year, 2017. What's you got cooking? Well, so we've pioneered the factory-built network model for the high-cap networks we've been building, primarily as we started as a hardware factory to make sure we could integrate different technologies, different domains, different manufacturers into a high-performing network. Well, we're taking that same model and moving it further and further into the software layer. Obviously, SDN and NFV are much in the news. And these are big ideas. These are big concepts. Too big for anyone to actually deploy out of the box. So the fact that Light River is used to integrating various technologies in various network domains is giving us a huge advantage as we try to roll this out into digestible chunks for software automation. We're not going to try to boil the ocean and give anyone a miracle network. But you know what? There are a lot of things that can be done in pieces. Taking that elephant a bite at a time that make real impact, a positive impact on how they run their networks. And because they are all carrier grade, we get a chance to prove that in our network factory and in our software labs. Outstanding, Mike, it is always a pleasure talking with you. I feel like I learn a little bit and quite frankly, don't feel as smart after I speak to you, but that's okay, I'm learning, I'm learning. So big question, what are you doing tonight? What am I doing tonight? Well, I'll be participating in a number of the networking events here because I still have to learn more. I wish I could say I knew everything. No, not close, but there's a lot of people here who do know a lot and I'll be spending time with them trying to see what I don't know. Outstanding, thanks again, Mike, appreciate it. Have a great day. You got it, you got it. And thank you viewers for watching JSA TV. We'll see you soon.