 Welcome to JSA TV where we're covering the latest stories trends and innovations from leaders in global connectivity Digital infrastructure and the networks within my name is Emily share for JSA We are here at Metro Connect in sunny Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and I am joined today by Bill Severn He is the president and CEO of 1623 Farnham. They are a Midwest connectivity hub and edge data center leader bill It's great to have you here. Thanks Emily. It's glad to be here. Absolutely. So Let's talk about you first. You were recently appointed as CEO and president after working with the organization's parent company for a long time So congratulations. That's very exciting. Thank you. And what does this transition mean for you and for 1623? Yeah, great question. So we've been really fortunate the last five years to have Todd Cushing as our president and CEO and He shared a common vision with us of what 1623 could be if it was properly invested in We completed that journey and Todd retired at the end of the year and I stepped into his role It's been really exciting so far and really looking forward to great things. Absolutely. Well, congratulations Thank you. That's so exciting and you're not the only one who has caused to celebrate So you also appointed a new VP of infrastructure and facility In Eric Flock and so how does this move aligned with driving value for the entire 1623 ecosystem? Yeah, really good. We're really proud of Eric. Eric has been with the company eight years He really dedicated himself to learning the facility learning all the new metrics in the new facility and Has done a wonderful job managing that and clients and so it's well deserved I'm really looking forward to working with Eric over the next several years. It's a it's a it's gonna be fun Good. Excellent. Well, congrats to Eric as well. That's great news. So excellent now Let's talk a little bit more about your rich connectivity ecosystem So it's something that 1623 is very proud of and not only do you have newly added data center capacity where others have none Available so that that's really important. So let's talk about that a little bit it really is it's been a five-year journey to upgrade the building and In late 2023 we set our last three generators and commissioned those in January So we added three megawatts of redundant power to the facility and at this show as well as in the Industry trades. We're hearing that You know capacity is below five percent across the United States So as people are trying to solve solutions for the middle of the country whether that be content Whether that be latency we have capacity at 1623 Omaha and we're really proud of it Absolutely such an important location for you guys there in the Midwest. So that's excellent. Absolutely And now your on-site internet exchange has also seen a five times Increase in traffic. So we'd love to hear a little bit more about that as well. Yeah, it's great I I'm just amazed in the last 12 months what we've seen the evolution of peering And whether it be the broadband providers trying to get content closer to their eyeball or their customers And whether it be content providers trying to get their content closer to those eyeball networks And so really coming together of peering Explosion that we're seeing at an interconnection facility and we've seen over a five fold increase in traffic year over year And I really think as we sit here next year, we'll see another five fold increase in peering traffic at the edge Yeah, wow Well, we can't wait to talk to you about that when it happens and congratulations on that the internet exchange traffic So that's fantastic. Thank you. Um, thanks for joining us bill. Is there anything else you wanted to add? No, this has been a great show and appreciate jsa doing, you know jsa live and I I hear there's over 2000 attendees here and Really a great place to come and connect. Absolutely. We were just saying that's so fun to connect with everybody here So thanks for joining us on jsa tv. Thank you into all of our viewers. Happy networking. We'll see you next time