Lightning MultiCom
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Internet |
| Founded | Zurich, Switzerland (1965) |
| Headquarters | Lausanne and Pully, Switzerland |
| 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 also offers 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
