# Lux

> Lux is AI for all non-physical fiber work. Reliable AI agents design, check and document fiber networks end to end, and deliver every file in the formats, language and fiber color code a team already uses. Your engineers approve every step.

Lux is built for telecoms and fiber operators, ISPs and altnets, engineering and design firms, utilities and co-ops, and municipal broadband teams.

## What Lux does

- **Autonomous network design**: agents read the streets and poles, place every closure, route every cable and optimize the design for build cost and capacity. https://lux.tech/platform/design
- **Checked before it reaches you**: every design is validated against your engineering rules, your pole owners' standards and the optical budget of every path; your engineers approve it before anything is built.
- **Every deliverable, in your formats**: network designs, splice and riser diagrams, bills of quantities, make-ready and permit packages, in DWG, DXF, SHP, GeoJSON, GeoPackage, KML/KMZ, CSV, Excel and PDF, in your language and fiber color code (TIA-598-C, IEC 60304, DIN VDE 0888 or your own).
- **Agentic GIS**: upload GIS, CAD and field data and ask questions in plain words; answers come back as layers on one map, with the method shown. https://lux.tech/platform/agentic-gis
- **Field Apps**: work orders and splice instructions on the crew's phone, with every as-built photo checked against the design. https://lux.tech/platform/field
- **Operations**: the live network, crews and alarms in one view. https://lux.tech/platform/operations
- **Lux aOS**: the agentic operating system for fiber work. https://lux.tech/platform

## Services

- Fiber network design: https://lux.tech/services/network-design
- Splice and riser design: https://lux.tech/services/splice-riser
- Pole loading and make-ready: https://lux.tech/services/make-ready
- Permitting and right-of-way: https://lux.tech/services/permitting
- GIS, CAD and as-builts: https://lux.tech/services/gis-cad-as-builts
- Construction QC and as-built verification: https://lux.tech/services/construction-qc

## Solutions

- Fiber operators: https://lux.tech/solutions/operators
- Altnets and overbuilders: https://lux.tech/solutions/altnets
- Engineering and EPC firms: https://lux.tech/solutions/epc
- Utilities and co-ops: https://lux.tech/solutions/utilities
- Municipal broadband: https://lux.tech/solutions/municipal
- BEAD: https://lux.tech/solutions/bead

## Security

Data is encrypted in transit and at rest and never used to train models. Workspaces are isolated, with role-based access, SSO and a tamper-evident audit trail. An agent never files, pays, digs or promises alone: people approve every output. https://lux.tech/security

## Getting started

Book a demo and bring a serving area: Lux designs it live in the session. Or send one area and get it designed and priced in 48 hours. https://lux.tech/contact

## Company

- About: https://lux.tech/about
- Blog: https://lux.tech/blog
- Contact: https://lux.tech/contact
- Sitemap: https://lux.tech/sitemap.xml

## More of the platform

- [AI Agents for Fiber and Broadband Operations](https://lux.tech/platform/agents): An agent for every desk in a fiber network's life, from the first survey to billing and filings. Each has its own tools. Your team decides what runs alone.
- [Vault — Ask Your Fiber Documents, with Citations](https://lux.tech/platform/vault): Drop in permits, designs, as-builts and contracts. Lux reads them, answers with a source for every claim and puts them in your agents' hands.
- [Spatial Analysis for Fiber Network Planning](https://lux.tech/platform/spatial-analysis): For ISPs and broadband operators: AI agents run coverage planning, BEAD tiers and cost per passing on your GIS and public data. A person decides.
- [Trust Center: Security, Subprocessors and Legal](https://lux.tech/trust): Security controls, subprocessors, legal documents and responsible AI at Lux: how your network data is protected and who touches it.

## Articles

- [As-Built Drift Is the Silent Budget Killer](https://lux.tech/blog/as-built-drift-silent-budget-killer): The gap between the design and the as-built compounds quietly until it surfaces as cost. Catching variance as it lands changes the economics.
- [Central Office Fiber Room Design: Racks, ODFs and Labels](https://lux.tech/blog/central-office-fiber-room-design): How to design a headend or central office fiber room: OLT port math, ODF sizing, rack elevations, cross-connect vs interconnect and TIA-606-C labels.
- [Fiber Construction Permitting Across Multiple Municipalities](https://lux.tech/blog/fiber-construction-permitting): Permitting a fiber build across cities, counties and state DOTs: permit types, pole attachment clocks, BEAD environmental review and tracking.
- [Why Fiber Design Should Take Minutes, Not Weeks](https://lux.tech/blog/fiber-design-minutes-not-weeks): The bottleneck in fiber deployment is not construction — it is the design queue. What changes when fiber network design takes minutes.
- [FTTH Design Software: A Buyer's Guide for Fiber Teams](https://lux.tech/blog/ftth-design-software-buyers-guide): How to choose FTTH design software: the four kinds of tools, what to test in a pilot, the questions that expose lock-in, and where AI agents fit.
- [HLD vs LLD in FTTH Design: What Each Stage Delivers](https://lux.tech/blog/hld-vs-lld-ftth-design): HLD vs LLD in FTTH design: what each stage decides, the deliverables, what changes after field survey, and a handoff checklist that prevents rework.
- [How a fiber splice closure works](https://lux.tech/blog/how-a-fiber-splice-closure-works): Inside a fiber splice closure: dome and inline types, splice trays and sleeves, spliced vs pass-through fibers, splitters, ports and the color code.
- [How a PON network works, from OLT to home](https://lux.tech/blog/how-a-pon-network-works): How a passive optical network carries service from the OLT to the ONT in the home: feeder, splitters, drops, and GPON vs XGS-PON in plain words.
- [How an FDH cabinet and its splitters work](https://lux.tech/blog/how-an-fdh-cabinet-works): How a fiber distribution hub (FDH) works: the feeder in, 1:32 or cascaded splitters, distribution ports, parking and patching, with a worked example.
- [Inside a fiber optic cable](https://lux.tech/blog/inside-a-fiber-optic-cable): What each layer of a fiber optic cable does: jacket, armor, rip cord, water blocking, aramid, buffer tubes, strength member, and the 12-color code.
- [PON Splitter Architecture: Centralized vs Cascaded, with Loss Budgets](https://lux.tech/blog/pon-splitter-architecture-loss-budget): Centralized 1:32 or cascaded 1:4 x 1:8? Splitter losses, GPON and XGS-PON budget classes, a worked loss budget and how take rate decides.
- [Splice Documentation Should Be a View, Not a Document](https://lux.tech/blog/splice-documentation-view-not-document): Splice sheets drift because they are drawn, not derived. When splice diagrams are a view of the network model, they change when the network does.
- [What is pole make-ready?](https://lux.tech/blog/what-is-pole-make-ready): Pole make-ready in plain words: how space on a pole is shared, what NESC clearances and loading cover, the engineering steps, and who does each one.