 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Laura Nolan coming to you from ITW 2020. Joining me today is Chris Lodge, Chief Operating Officer and Interim CEO of United Fiber and Data. Welcome, Chris. Welcome back, I should say, to JSA TV. Thank you. Thank you for having me and good morning. Four viewers who aren't familiar with UFD, could you tell us a little bit about the company? Sure. UFD was founded seven and a half years ago now, I think it's been, with a couple premises in mind and, you know, the primary being, what could we do that complements assets that were already out there was a B was to be different. We didn't want to be just another telecom carrier infrastructure provider. We want it to be different and really focus on, you know, solutions for folks and the other carriers and enterprises out there and not just be a typical 50 year old telecom. Well, UFD, it's been a busy few months. You recently announced your new optical wavelength service offerings, lit services. So, can you tell us more about these services and the impact? Yes. So, going into that everybody's been experiencing, you know, the COVID-19 dilemma and pandemic. Just as we were going into it, we had launched lit services between New York City, Northern New Jersey down to our endpoint in Ashburn today. That is now up live and operational and we're actually working on adding a few more nodes as we speak. We received great reception from our colleagues in the field. Again, using that diverse path that we have of the I-95 Route 1 corridor between that and with the new brand, being that it's brand new fiber, we're getting phenomenal speeds on it to quote one of our customers quote on quote, that's hot. Meaning in terms of the latency between that we're seeing, so we're seeing some great success with that. Great forward momentum for sure. So, you mentioned a little bit about COVID-19 and the impact with UFD. So, can we dive a little deeper and talk about the impact, not only with the company, but your customers and the way you operate? Well, I think like everybody out there, the way we operate has changed and may forever change. So, like everybody else or most people that we've talked to, we're doing our part. UFD is like all working from home, where we can. Some of our field personnel to keep our operations going are still in the field doing our part with social distancing slowing the spread, if you will. I think that's the buzzword out there. So, from that standpoint, I think it's changed. We in Pennsylvania, where most of us are headquartered, are just starting to come back to life out there in society. So, we'll see how it goes and what the permanent outlook looks like. From a customer standpoint, I think what we've seen and a lot of people are probably seeing is the patterns just slightly shifted. What the capacity has gone up, obviously, but it hasn't been to the detriment, I think, that some were fearing out there. It's just where the push and the pull is in terms of traffic, residential versus commercial and things like that. That's changed. Wavelength offering going back to our optical gear has become very popular because you can turn it up in a very quick fashion. It doesn't have the cycles of dark fiber in terms of accessibility times and things like that. So, we've seen a great uptick in that offering. For us, we're very limited and focused on our products. We have our dark fiber in a couple of flavors and we have a lid offering into 10 gig and 100 gig wavelength. It allows us to be very focused on those elements. As you mentioned, we are in different times, but looking forward to the rest of 2020 and maybe over the next year or two, what does UFD have its eyes set on? We are doing a couple little projects, if you will, some pre-engineering to look at other alternative paths out of some of these markets and capitalize on what we call that backbone or that spine that we already have in diverse connectivity. So, we're looking at some alternatives out of Sococcus and Philadelphia and markets like that back to this westerly path to leverage on it because we do believe there's the demand and then with these changing times, those areas will become more and more prevalent to getting that traffic up to this diverse path. Where can our viewers go to learn more about your services that you talked about with us today and geographically diverse fiber network? Where can we go? Our website, UFD.com or any of our social media, we're very linked in with the business components of it. They would be the two most popular to find us and then obviously like everything from the website, you can link to any of the social media pages that we have. Well, thank you, Chris. We so appreciate your time with us and sharing with us today and thanks for joining us. Thank you. Stay safe. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA Podcast. Happy networking.