If you are willing to sign a confidentiality agreement, we would love to let you peek behind the curtain at the projects currently under development at Lightfleet.
The first step is to download and print this NDA. Fill it in, sign, and fax it to Tom Farley at +1-360-816-5750. We will review the information and, if accepted, we will send a signed version to your email address.
With a signed NDA on file, we will begin providing you with private news about product development.
Responsible for the preparation of external financial reports and the related supporting documentation. Ensures that all reports and disclosures comply with applicable governmental regulations, professional standards and organizational policies.
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“Power and cooling is a pandemic in the world of the data center,” said Michael Bell, research vice president at Gartner Inc. “By next year, about half the world’s data centers will be functionally obsolete due to insufficient power and cooling capacity to meet the demands of high-density equipment.”
Perhaps that is why Gartner has named Lightfleet as one of five “Cool Vendors” to watch in its 2007 Emerging Technologies Report. Read more.
Reporting to the Controller, the Sr. Cost Accountant designs, develops and manages the cost accounting system, including documentation, reconciliation, reporting, and procedure development. (more…)
On August 22, we watched across the parking lot as the crane raised wall sections to create the shell of a new three-story office building at Camas Meadows.
In this video, five hours of construction time is compressed to about 10 minutes.
Nick Carr writes of William Davies’ recent essay (The cold, cold heart of Web 2.0) about how people apply principles of the internet (whatever they are) to social and cultural connection–and perhaps formation of community. Something rubs me the wrong way in their writings and I can’t quite put my finger on it. Certainly the internet has changed how we communicate and has an impact on how we establish social connections and how we participate with each other. Davies is arguing that we are consciously trying to use the internet to make socializing a more efficient process. That sounds cold and calculating. Perhaps we are simply enjoying the ease of connecting to people worldwide with whom we share interests. That sounds warm and friendly. (more…)
I feel old. I no longer feel with it. The fact that I think being “with it” is a measure of anything probably proves that I am old. Nobody who is anybody is “with it” any more. Even somebody who is “cool” cannot be sure of being anybody anymore. To be somebody you have to be “connected” preferably “connected” with “the community”. Fortunately with blogging, anybody can be somebody, even a nobody like me. So Max says.
Max is not old. He has more grey hairs than me. Mind you he has more hair than me. He has more candles on his birthday cake than I will have on my next birthday cake, should I see another one. [Happy Birthday Max!] But Max is not old. Max, is somebody. He blogs. He posts. His name is on YouTube. Max wants me to blog. “Interact with the community online” he says.
Maybe I should take it as a complement. Maybe Max wants me to be young. But the ‘net is not for interacting, at least not for old folks like me. It is for finding information, or if I am selling or telling, posting information. But interacting? Interacting is a phone call, a meeting, a conversation, a letter, a hug, even an argument. (On that score we all interact with Tim a lot.) Email might be interacting, but I am not sure.
“Tell them,” Max says “what you are thinking”.
Fear!
What if I am not thinking? What if they all find out that I don’t think! If I speak without thinking the words are gone. The damage done may last a while longer but it too is transitory. At least so far. But blogs last for ever. There are people taking copies of the Internet every day and keeping them, in mines, for ever. You can’t blog without thinking! Max, what are you thinking?
Panic!
“Tell them,” Max says “about what is going on inside Lightfleet.”
Calm!
That’s easy. I can do that! There is always a lot going on inside Lightfleet! The excitement, the pace, the challenges, the people, the INTERACTION, the fun, the humor, the pressure, the progress, the problems, the solutions, the confidence, the inevitability of success. I can write about that!
“But don’t” Max says “tell them anything that is proprietary. Anybody can read your blog.”
Confusion! Anybody, or somebody?
Sigh! And so I blog. I made a list of things to blog about. Things about Lightfleet, or about engineering, or about managing or about life. But not things about politics, or religion. Those of you who are wrong, those of you who do not think as I do onsuch matters might still want to buy our solutions, or invest in our company or join our team. So, no sense in offending. No politics. No religion. [Hey Max, am I allowed all of this bad English in a blog?]
There are 22 things on the list. It did not even take long to make. It might be fun, this interacting! I’ll write about my thoughts on blogging first. What will my first on-line hug feel like?
Will it last for ever?
Iain
Christina Roberts at Webline Designs is our web designer and migration specialist.
Welcome to the new lightfleet.com site, a site that has been redesigned from the ground up to encourage a community to evolve around the innovations, ideas, and products offered by Lightfleet (innovation, etc. that is of course enhanced with your input, involvement, and collaboration). We are excited about the Direct Broadcast Optical Interconnect (DBOI) technology that’s been under development here at Lightfleet ever since the brilliant insight that data-carrying light could be broadcast relatively widely and achieve simultaneous communications with multiple receivers. Sounds simple (it is) and the implications are profound. (more…)
The successful candidate will bring to Lightfleet their expertise and experience in design, and development of Opto-mechanical systems. (more…)