 Hi everyone and welcome to JSA TV coming to you today live from day three final day of ITW It's been a great week so far. I'm Barb Mitchell and we're here on the floor of National Harbor and Joining me is Greg Elliott and Matt Reed 1623 Farnam's VPs of business development, and I'm so happy to have you here glad to be here. Yeah. Thank you We saw you, you know, we've seen you throughout the week. I know you've been busy talking with folks and We're here bright and early. So thank you. Thank you for coming. I know it's gets a bit exhausting by this time of the week But really happy to have you here and happy to have you Matt. Welcome to your new to your role at 1623 Tell us about that. Yeah, so new to the 1623 been a Been been in the facility many many times and that's what drew me to the to the facility Working with Greg over the years and really what what brought me on board was the team And you haven't had a chance to visit our facility. You'll see that All the work that those guys have done over the years. It's amazing But the the team that they've built there is I'm glad to be part of it and Yeah, so it's it's been a good good two months. So I'm still learning and we're glad to have you Award and he and Matt brings just a great Network engineering background to us that we haven't really had in the past So that's that's huge and and he's been been a customer for years and I've known him for years So it's good to have him on the team. Appreciate it. Yeah, and you mentioned people and team and that's what drew you In but I also know that 1623. I mean you have great a great facility and a great array of assets Talk about that and what that means for your customers. Yeah, we spent a lot of time building the ecosystem and we'll probably talk about that a little bit today and to us that means You know, we're truly carrier neutral. We're to truly content provider neutral and And we're always adding to that mix and so we have about 60 networks in the meet me room we continue to grow the Omaha Internet Internet exchange which we own and operate and you know, all those things are The bigger we build that ecosystem the better it is for Customers and exist or potential customers to leverage that ecosystem. Yeah, and I I mean, there's a lot I mean, there's a lot of things I think we want to touch on today But one of the things that that comes up I mean a lot in mainstream news anyway these days is the economy and some different pressures around there I think organizations enterprises are thinking a lot about that. How do you advise your clients from that regard? Yeah, so I'll take that Okay, so We act as a as I mentioned, we're truly care to care neutral content provider neutral cloud neutral And that puts us in a unique position to help enterprise customers as they're working on their digital transformation strategy And we act as a consultant. We're trying that's why we're here to learn as much as we can about the different networks and new technologies and new connections that can happen And so we take that back to our our enterprise customers and our content customers to You know help them maximize their IT spend From hybrid cloud solutions to period on the exchange saves money when you have 60 networks in the meeting room gives you a lot of choices and ways to Maximize your budget for sure Yeah, just I mean you said it all but I would agree just being that business partner learning about their business And seeing how we can align those things with all the things that go on in the facility and in the ecosystem like great great touchdown Yeah, yeah, so locations one thing as well, right Omaha, Nebraska that and other things What would you what would you say are you know are the additional? Benefits of from a geographical perspective, but also some of your other benefits. Yeah, it's definitely location location location And so we're fortunate that We sit, you know, almost in the middle of the US we have lots of great fiber routes long-haul fiber routes north-south east-west and everything in between and So that's that's huge and then we're also fortunate in Nebraska, Iowa the region Power costs are are low. So that's attracted the hyperscalers And that just you know keeps building that ecosystem that we keep talking about And so as we sit here again, it's you know day three. I can't believe we're already I mean, I guess we have almost a full day still ahead of us. I know but it's going quick Yeah, and I you've been having no doubt a lot of great meetings I know that you know, we've chatted about that a little bit just you know, the the pace of how things happen here But I'm kind of curious. What are you talking to people about? Yeah, so, you know, the the cool things in the ecosystem, you know, like we touched on that the Omaha X has been growing like crazy We've been adding adding new networks. There's there's some new new carriers out there that are exciting low latency networks and Yeah, just all of it a lot of kind we've added some new CDNs to you So those are those are great to add to the ecosystem. So yeah, all kinds of good things happening Yeah, what about you Matt? You're sort of you're you're newer to this Conversation, yeah Yeah, my my views are there's a you know with everything going on in the industry from You know, that's the funding that the states are getting, you know, we sit in a great spot So I'm talking a lot about the fiber that's getting put into the ground how people are going to support that What the things they need to do when you know when they start building out their fiber networks and you know We're a great spot for that. Yeah So anything just a sort of final parting like maybe a final teaser Is there anything that people should be watching for over the next year or 18 months? So we we just launched our channel program and then also Matt and I will be doing a series via JSA TV on educating our customers and in the region on appearing and the benefits of peering We also have an annual event called meet in the middle in September So, you know what that's an invite-only event, but it's it's it's grown over the years and it's our customers potential customers and Network partners in the ecosystem. So it's a great event. That'll be happening. I don't know if there's anything else. Yeah Yeah, that's what we got going on It's I just encourage people to they haven't seen the facility and they want to take take a look at it We'll happy happily bring people through the facility and do a tour and yeah, that's always a great invite Yeah, it's always nice to see a great facility and see it for yourself And and yeah, I've heard about this event coming up in September. It sounds like it's gonna be a great one Thank you both of you for joining us for any of our viewers who may want to connect with you How can they do that? Sure via our website or socials? We have our contact information there and yeah as Matt said feel free to reach out at any point for a tour Or just a chat and we're happy to share our knowledge on Mid what the Midwest ecosystem and how that could help Yeah, so thank you Greg and thank you. Welcome to the team. Yeah, thanks. It's nice to have you both here this morning Now you can get on with the rest of your day And and thank you viewers for tuning in here this morning To JSA TV coming to you live from the floor of ITW in National Harbor until next time