 Welcome back to JSA TV and JSA podcast where we are covering the latest stories, trends and innovations from leaders across the digital infrastructure industry. I am Keeley Dorian and we are wrapping up our final day here at PTC in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii. And today we are chatting with Ben Edmund. He's the CEO and founder of ConnectBase. Thanks so much for stopping by. Thank you very much for having me. I'm excited to be here in Honolulu with you. Yeah. Always great to have you here on JSA TV. This is your 17th PTC, is that what I heard? 17th PTC. That's right. Wow. Well, I hope it's been a good and successful one for you. It absolutely has. It's one of the most productive events in the world. Absolutely. Well, let's talk a little bit about ConnectBase. You guys are growing. We are. Lots happening. Can you tell us a little bit more about the master stream acquisition that you announced last month? It really elevates your position. It does. It really is a game changer for us. We're excited about it. If you think about ConnectBase, where we've been connecting the wholesale connectivity ecosystem for the past eight years, and master stream is a fantastic asset, fantastic group of people that's been doing a similar thing in the channel. What we did is we acquired them to bring that channel and the wholesale universe into one fabric and really see that as a game changer for everyone in the industry. Absolutely. Another big partnership that has been announced lately with Carbon, and that partnership addresses critical pain points for network operators. Can you tell us a little bit about that and how that also just feeds in and alleviates some of those pain points? Yeah. We like news, news, news. So Carbon is a fantastic partner, really solving a single pane of glass inside the data center. The partnership is going to do lots of things to simplify the ability to get a true end-to-end connection, including the cross-connect all the way to the patch panel. So they bring that capability along with our capabilities of automating the circuit end-to-end. So we're super excited about the relationship. Yeah, absolutely. So you like news, as you mentioned, like partnerships. Can you give us a sneak peek of what may be to come yet for 2024? Oh, wow. We have some big initiatives in 2024. Working with growth, companies have been a growth engine for the last eight years, founding. We're going to have more scale brought to the ecosystem, digitizing the community, partnerships like Carbon. They're going to open up more of the data center universe and end partnerships globally as we reach into European market, Latin market, Asia-Pacific market, African market. We now deal with CMC as a partner throughout Middle East and Africa, and super excited about what that means for everyone else in the world. You mentioned a lot of emerging markets right now, so I just wanted to ask if there are any of those that excite you? There's great things going on in all of them, but does one jump out at you any more than another at this point? I don't think so. I think there's this massive set of demand globally for how people do business together. And what we are is a translation tool that connects the world together. So doing business from the United States to Latin to Europe to Africa or Europe to Africa and the Asia-Pacific, ultimately it all can be done through our platform. And we're super excited about bringing that to the community. Absolutely. Is there anything else that you want our viewers to know about what you might have going on or how you can just assist with them? I think one of the things that we want the community to really remember is the focus on our core foundation, which is location truth. How this ecosystem works from a data center to a tower to a commercial building is all about understanding what the location has, what it could have, what's the demand profile. And ConnectBase has been digitizing that at a greater scale than ever before, 2.7 billion locations and growing. And if we start with location, prospecting gets better, planning gets better, pricing gets better, buying gets better, and ultimately we want to see that throughout the industry. Well, great work going on. Thank you. Keep it up. We can't wait to have you back at another JSA TV and get some more updates this year. I look forward to it. I appreciate the time. Thanks so much for stopping by here at JSA TV. And thanks to our viewers for tuning in. Stay connected, everyone.