CenturyLink, Inc., is an American multinational communications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana. It provides communications and data services to residential, business, governmental and wholesale customers in 36 states. It also provides long distance service. The earliest predecessor of CenturyLink was the Oak Ridge Telephone Company in Oak Ridge, Louisiana, which was owned by F. E. Hogan, Sr. In 1930, Hogan sold the company, with 75 paid subscribers, to William Clarke and Marie Williams, for $500. They moved the switchboard to the Williams family front parlor. In 1946, the Williams' son, Clarke McRae Williams, received ownership of the family's telephone company as a wedding gift.
Radware, is a provider of integrated application delivery / load balancing and application & network security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers. Radware's U.S. headquarters is in Mahwah, New Jersey and its international headquarters is in Tel Aviv, Israel. Radware has over 10,000 enterprise and carrier customers worldwide. Radware is a member of the Rad Group of companies and its shares are traded on NASDAQ.
