Total Network Operators Podcast by Packet Pushers
October 10th, 2025
LightRiver has software and service products focused on the automation, optimization, and simplification of multi-layer, multi-vendor, and multi-generation networking. Today we have a team from LightRiver lead by Jim Brinksma to help explain how LightRiver is advancing automation in optical and bridging the gap between the IP and optical layers. They discuss the challenges, obstacles and success along the journey with perspectives from their engineers in AI/ML, SecOps engineers, Quality Assurance, Security and DevOps engineers. This is an unsponsored episode.
Q: “Tell us a little bit about LightRiver, your intentionally multi-vendor in the optical space.”
A: “We’ve got a whole portfolio of services and software that are really focused on automation, optimization, simplification of multi-layer, multi-vendor, and multi-generation networking. From a multi-layer perspective, when we talk about that, we’re really talking about it from the OSI model perspective. So anything from layer 3 and below.”
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