 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Barb Mitchell coming to you from ITW 2020. Joining me today is Todd Cushing president of 1623 Farnham. Todd, welcome to JSA TV. Thank you for having me. It's great to have you and what we would love is if you could just maybe start by giving us a bit of an overview of 1623 Farnham. Sure, a little bit about the building, the facility itself is its own bios and managed by us. It's a 76,000 foot building. It's nine floors above ground, two floors below, and its focus is interconnection. So really the Currier Hotel traditionally is what it's been for almost 20 years, but now it's really an interconnection facility at this point. And I understand you're undergoing a $40 million expansion currently. Can you tell us a little bit about the data center upgrades and enhancement, maybe when it's going to be ready? Sure. We've always been N plus one, but now we're going to have all new electrical, all new mechanical, new security, and building management to the facility. The seventh floor is going to be available for leasing in the 12th of August. And we're going to commission the new mechanical electrical on mid-October-ish this year. Okay. Yeah, it's timely. I mean, a robust interconnection is so critical for so many organizations. What does 1623 Farnham specifically offer to address that? It's, well, we have approximately 50 carriers, phone carriers in our facility, content providers, people that are doing interconnection in our facility, peering because of the IAX, but we also have on-ramps to the facility. So we have Claudia Cloud, CenturyLink, and Google on-ramp here. And with that, we have their tenants and content providers in our facility. We also have Megaport, which will be production in July. So really, it's about interconnection. Wow. And you're also host to the Premier Midwest Internet Exchange, Omaha IAX. Can you tell us what that means for your customers? Sure. The Omaha IAX is really about lower cost transport and peering. So the ability to connect to others that have content, have your pass be more direct. And having them more direct, you have less opportunity for security problems, less hops. So it's more economical, it's lower cost. IAX has been around in Europe. They're widely accepted there. There's more and more acceptance of IAX's in the Midwest and other parts of the country. But we own the Omaha IAX and we're expanding it. We are looking to tether it in other cities around the Omaha Metro. Wow. Wow, that's all great updates. Can you give us a little bit about, you know, we're sort of halfway through, if you can believe it, 2020 already. What does the rest of the year look like for you? Yeah, we're going to wrap up the mechanical let go upgrades to our commissioning. But we've also got new carriers coming on board. So we've got a few more carriers. I think there's three, four more carriers will be on new fiber from existing clients that are expanding onto other new floors, reworking their footprint here, which we're happy about. But we also have three new routes coming in from Chicago or Denver into our facility they're building. And it's really driven by the hyper scale. So there's a lot of hyper scale in the Omaha Metro. Google's got four presences. Facebook's got a presence. They interconnect with our facility. So we've got a lot of new growth going on for those hyper scale in our facility. So we'll be boarding on new tenants that'll be again, for that ecosystem that the interconnection is so important for, we'll be expanding that via those relationships. So a new lobby is going to be happening in first quarter and new security desk. And so we're really excited to put a new face on the front of the building on the north side. Wow. So so much already happening and so many exciting things to look forward to. Where can our viewers go to learn more about 1623 Farnham? We've got a great new website that JSA helped us out with. So it's 1623 Farnham.com. Or you can also check out the OMAIX.com and take a look at it and just if you have questions, contact us. Fantastic. Okay. Well, Todd, thank you so much for your time today. We really appreciate you joining us. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcasts. Happy networking.