 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcast, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Laura Noland here in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii at PTC 20. Joining me now is Travis Ewart, the COO of LightRiver. No stranger to JSA TV, welcome back Travis. Well, thank you Laura, I'm glad to be back. Thanks for having me again. For our viewers who may not know about LightRiver, tell us what you do. Yeah, you bet. So within LightRiver we have primarily two lines of business. We have our services arm where we engineer, design and build some of the largest and most complex transport and packet optical networks out there. And we do this for some of the largest operators out there where five nines and mission critical is important to them. And that's FANG operators, hyperscale, largest data center exchange providers, tier ones, others. So that's our FBN or factory built network line of business and very complimentary to that. We also have a network software platform called NetFlex and within NetFlex we automate some of the most complex, multi-vendor, multi-technology, multi-generational technologies out there as well within NetFlex. So very complimentary, but for LightRiver that's our key to focus areas. 2019 was a big year for LightRiver. Multiple award wins, also moving into the Bell Works building in New Jersey. Tell us more about your success in 2019. Yeah, you know, 2019 was a fun year. So we got a lot of industry recognition. We won a number of awards starting with PTC last year and finishing with Fierce Telecom and a number of others in between. And actually, not that we were keeping track but kind of sort of were. I think we got more awards from an optical domain control perspective with NetFlex than anybody else out there which was fun. And you know, for 2019 it was all about growth too. So we got started with a massive growth project for our factory built network and expanding our labs or factory instance. So that was going on as well as you just said, moving into the former Bell Labs location now called Bell Works in Holmdale. So that's kind of where it all began with NetFlex and some of our founders and original technologists coming home, so to speak. So awesome new facility there. So it was about growth. It was about customer growth and yeah, a little bit of award bling along the way, Laura. So. Well congratulations to you on that. We want to talk now a little bit about more your industry leading solutions. It's the factory built network. It's NetFlex, two separate solutions but you made them into one? Yeah, so actually we found a way to pretty intelligently bring them together. So today when we engineer, build and deploy a network we hand that off to the customer and they largely then just run with it. So we thought, what would that look like if we took NetFlex and bake that into that process? So with that automation and the ability to do proactive network health, proactive network capacity, all those kinds of things and really kind of fine tune, dial that into that network as we're building that out in the labs and deploy that with the service. So that's something we offered or we introduced here last year and actually it was pretty fun. That's one of the awards we got at the tail end of last year and kind of wink, wink Laura. We just got an award for that one in this year. I can't mention whom and where but that one's coming too. So more awards to come for what we're calling intelligent FBN, so IFBN. Stay tuned for more awards. So tell us about, well you have another acronym because we need another acronym in the industry CDX. Tell us about that. Yeah, so CDX, customer defined experience. So everybody within our industry knows what customer experience is. So we added a D, actually I can do it the other way for the camera, a D right in the middle. So what we've done with Netflix is we have so much programmability that a customer can actually go in there and define what they wanna take action on. So what's coming in by way of advance analytics and inputs, let them define by way of business rules, you know, what to detect, trigger on, et cetera and then what outcome out of that. So yeah, we've introduced a new concept. We've gotten some, you know, even some early recognition with that as well, but it really just highlights Netflix and the programmability of Netflix and the ability to really just focus on the customer in a whole different way and allow them to, again, custom defined their network automation. Okay, so what's coming up in 2020 for Light River? What's coming up? Well, hopefully more of the same. So hopefully a more recognition, not just from an awards perspective, but, you know, picking up lots of new customers. We got all kinds of good stuff in the hopper, so to speak. So more growth, you know, as we expand both lines of business. So yeah, lots of exciting things coming, Laura. All right, where can our viewers learn more about Light River? So you can catch us at lightriver.com. So hit lightriver.com and learn a lot more about us. Great news. Thank you, Travis, for joining us. All right, thank you, Laura. And thank you viewers for joining us at JSA TV and JSA Podcast. Copy networking.