Lightning MultiCom
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| Lightning MultiCom SA | |
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | Zurich, Switzerland (1965) |
| Headquarters | Lausanne and Pully, Switzerland |
| Industry | Internet |
| Products | See Products and Solutions |
| Website | www.lightning.ch |
Lightning MultiCom is a Swiss manufacturer of secure network access appliances and web-server software solutions. It is also offering customized solutions in software and hardware.
Lightning develops and markets the MultiCom range of broadband router and firewalls, including VPN IPSec gateway with banking/government level encryption and security. In 2005, it also started developing web-server software and providing services around this.
Hardware products are based on Linux, and software products on Open-Source.
Lightning's technology addresses professional applications. Lightning currently provides network security solutions to carrier, ISP, banks, media houses, law firms, accountancy firms, consultancies, and to government entities throughout Europe, Asia-Pacific and EMEA region.
[edit] Divisions
Lightning is currently divided into several core groups:
- Network Security Solutions Group - Develops and manufactures high-security firewall and VPN appliances
- Internet Access Group - Develops and manufactures highly integrated Internet access devices for ISDN, ADSL and leased line accesses.
- Internet Web Server software Group - created in 2005 develops web server software based on open-source packages, such as Joomla!.
[edit] History
- 1965 Lightning founded as a family business, developing airport central-line lighting equipment, which is equipping Swiss airports since 1966 and up to today (2006).
- 1992 A networking startup department was opened
- 1994 First compact router with leased line and ISDN with integrated backup and overflow
- 1995 First personal, pocket-sized ISDN router
- 1996 First router with integration of voice functions (customized development for a client)
- 1997 First router with optional strong 128 bit key encoding
- 2000 First complete Linux system embedded in a router
- 2002 First Linux-based routers engineered and delivered for a major aero-spatial project, EGNOS at the European Space Agency
- 2004 First High-Availability embedded Linux firewall and VPN gateway
- 2005 New group founded for Internet Web Server Software and Services
