 the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scato-Cutaya of JSA and joining me here at ITW 2016 we have Mr. Mike Jonas. He's the president of sales and marketing for Light River Technologies. Mike, welcome to JSA TV. Thank you very much. Happy to be in Chicago. Happy to have you and you know we've been hearing some big news about Light River specifically your new alliance if you will with Axiom Fiber Networks. Can you tell us a little bit about that? Absolutely it's about leveraging our mutual expertise to grow faster. There's nothing more involved than that. Felipe and his team have a lot of significant experience building networks, running networks in the New York City area. They've got a customer following there, people that know them and trust them. How does he grow a new company more quickly in this case leveraging some of the expertise Light River can deliver on design, on deployment, on access to technology and between the two of us will help him satisfy his customers more quickly. Yeah and this certainly adds a lot more flexibility. Can you tell us what your customers can expect? Well they can expect both Light River and Axiom to provide a broader set of services more quickly. When they identify a problem, they identify a challenge between the team at Axiom and the fiber assets, significant fiber access assets that they've put in place. They can get physically to a location and with Light River will find the best lit solution to get that network operating in the way that's needed. And so what would be the immediate impact for the customers? The immediate impact of the customers is they can accelerate their own business plan. If they need access, if they need service, if they need connectivity, delivering it more quickly is going to help them grow their business. And Mike, I love this type of question when I have someone of expertise sitting in the seat next to me who's been in the industry for as long as I know you have been with me. When you look in that crystal ball, what do you see for Light River in the next six to twelve months? Well six to twelve months we're spending a great deal of time bringing all of our customers into the next generation technology into higher capacity and more flexible networks. What we're investing in over the next six to twelve months is software automation. That is the next big change in how these kinds of networks are run. And there's quite a lot of preparation to get ready to do that the right way. Our customers require carrier grade technology, carrier grade, quality and predictability. And it doesn't happen overnight. So we've begun making those investments even last year. And we'll continue to do that throughout the balance of this year. Sounds like a lot of news coming up for both Light River as well as Axiom and of course the Alliance, the combination of both for customers and for our industry. Can you tell us for those who want to learn more about Light River? Where can they go? Light River has our website, www.lightriver.com. It'll be the information you need from the industry for the industry to make sure your packet optical needs are met. Thank you Mike for joining us here on JSA TV and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV.