 Welcome to JSA TV where we're covering the latest stories and trends and innovations from the leaders in global connectivity Digital infrastructure and the networks within coming to you live from beautiful Times Square at DCD connect New York 2024 and I am here with my new best friend. Mr. Daniel Wilhoit a.k.a Ddub Ddub welcome to JSA TV. Thank you Dean. I mean what a wonderful day to be in Times Square, New York Great place to be lots of activity a lot to showcase around here and talk about technology Absolutely, and so Ddub is the senior director of global accounts and business development at Le Grand Le Grand is a leader in digital infrastructure reimagining data power and control so Ddub tell us a little bit about Le Grand So Le Grand our Le Grand data power control division, but overall we're a global manufacturer of Infrastructure solutions for the data center market commercial office environment Lots of different vertical markets, but the focus today within the division that we're talking about is data power control And with that we manufacture busway distribution with Starline We have in cabinet PDU server tech in raritan. We do manufacture cabinets as well Containment and along with that we have fiber optic and copper connectivity as well as physical support and lastly we have the network transceivers that connect everything together so Very interesting and very diverse portfolio that Le Grand has to offer. Yeah, I love this And I love that you're the first interview of the day because Kind of the unsung heroes I think of kind of this next a gen boon in in technology AI We're obviously going to talk a lot about AI today in machine learning and things like that It's kind of the connectivity how it all connects together And it's not just about keeping servers cool and making sure you've got the space and the power But also the connections that make it all work. So with that in mind How do you see the integration of AI? impacting the design requirements of the modern data center great question Dean so as you know if you look around here The two main focuses that we talk about with data center integration, especially implementing AI is power and cooling very critical factors because the kw per rack and the heat that the GPUs and The chips that put off you've got to cool that down Yeah The other third element that people don't really quite pay attention to is a very important fiber infrastructure to make sure those zeros and ones pass down the stream and are go through the Infrastructure and you know concisely with less bit error rate and so forth So that's the thing I want to you know that we focus on from a structure caving perspective in addition to power and cooling is Ensuring that the customers have a very good fiber infrastructure in place Excellent and so within that context of deploying AI clusters within the data center. How important will Optimizing that fiber cabling infrastructure be So, you know with that said, I'm not sure there's been a lot of discussion about very small form factor technology I'm not not sure if our customers are aware of that, but there's been a lot of buzzword about that So as an example a very small form factor connector One is made is called the MDC connector made by us connect CW brought props It's all good The other manufacturer that makes a very small form factor is Cinco We met we use both of those connectors to develop our acclaim fiber solution and with our acclaim fiber solution that coincides with AI implementation is developing a high performance low latency Latency fiber solution that's going to last you for years and years So what we've done in developing that solution is we took that very small form factor technology We created our own eight fiber acclaim connector and then we also developed Conversion adapter panel. So what these do is your fiber backbone? These are plugged in so this gets rid of a cassette in a traditional fiber solution Which reduces the the inventory you don't have to worry about polarity method a b or c polarity And it simplifies the the connectivity simplifies the installation and it causes for much faster deployment So there's got to be a portability aspect to this too, right? I mean it makes it easier to get in and get out and and move things around as needed absolutely the is so Non-complex right such a word not not team. It's not complex So we've reduced the whole complexity of the installation. We've reduced the number of part numbers So and the time to market I mean you don't have to worry about what type of method a b or c you haven't from polarity perspective You can plug-and-play and a lot of some of the customers that we have one business It's for that exact same reason quick ease of installation Quick deployment up and running fast in a very good performing fiber optic system Ddub, it's been a pleasure man. Thank you very much for joining me today on JSA TV and to our viewers Stay curious stay connected and we'll see you soon. Thank you