Industry Guides

How LightMesh IPAM supports network intelligence across utilities, manufacturing, healthcare, government, financial services, education, and MSP environments.

Different industries operate under distinct regulatory, operational, and technical constraints that shape how IP address space is managed. A water utility with distributed pump stations and SCADA networks faces different challenges than a manufacturing plant with industrial DMZs or a utility with substation automation and NERC CIP obligations.

These guides explain how LightMesh supports safe network intelligence (attribution, audit evidence, and change planning) within industry-specific contexts. Each guide covers the industry’s network environment, common operational challenges, and practical LightMesh modelling recommendations.

LightMesh does not control industrial equipment, push configuration, or guarantee compliance. It provides a trusted, auditable view of address space, ownership, and planned-vs-live state so teams can make informed decisions.

Topics

  • 1. Water & Wastewater: Treatment plants, pump stations, remote telemetry, and SCADA. Site-aware attribution and segmentation evidence for distributed water infrastructure.

  • 2. Manufacturing: Plant networks, production lines, industrial DMZs, and vendor access governance. Modelling Purdue Model zones in manufacturing environments.

  • 3. Utilities & Energy: Generation, transmission, substations, and DER integration. OT network intelligence for regulated utility infrastructure.

  • 4. Transportation: Ports, airports, and rail networks. Distributed terminals, OT-adjacent systems, vendor access, and public-facing services.

  • 5. Healthcare: Hospitals, clinics, and labs. Clinical and biomedical network attribution, ePHI-adjacent segmentation, M&A integration, and hybrid cloud planning.

  • 6. Public Sector: Government and public institutions. Self-hosted deployment, audit evidence, cloud landing zones, and multi-agency coordination.

  • 7. Financial Services: Banks, insurers, and payments. SOC attribution, change-control evidence, PCI-adjacent segmentation, and landing zone guardrails.

  • 8. Higher Education: Universities and colleges. Delegated campus IPAM, public IPv4 stewardship, IPv6 planning, and research cloud guardrails.

  • 9. Managed Service Providers: MSPs and hosting providers. Multi-tenant customer separation, public IP governance, service desk attribution, and migration factory planning.

Getting started

If you are new to LightMesh, start with Getting Started to understand the fundamentals before exploring industry-specific guides.