 Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Skadukataya here in Honolulu at PTC 2018 with my dear good friend, Mr. Hunter Nubi. Of course, from Hunter, no, Nubi Ventures, not adventures, ventures. One of the other. One of the same. Yeah. So Hunter, it's been 15 plus years since we began working together back in the day. So much has changed, so much is happening right now, news breaking on the PTC floor. Can you tell us a little bit about that, NJFX Cross-Lake deal? Certainly. Great to see you. Thanks for having me on your program. Nice to meet you. Yeah, so the NJFX Cross-Lake 1025 Connect announcement which came out recently basically at a high level just shows how Subsea interconnect and what we refer to as the continental edge is changing or shifting the landscape where submarine cables land and then interconnect. And for the most part, in the New York, New Jersey area, that is to move bulk subsea transport between Europe and Latin America out of Manhattan. So not having to backhaul all the way in through the bridges and tunnels and manholes, all the points of failure potentially, and all the added cost, and really keeping closer to where the cables actually land. And the Cross-Lake cable just fits in like the perfect puzzle piece between the two facilities, acting as a passive interconnection point of means between the two points. And we certainly learned back in the day after 9-11 the importance of circumventing Manhattan. And lessons learned also from Hurricane Sandy, so you can never have too much diversity. That's exactly right. I mean, back in our days at Telex, being successful, bringing all those networks into 60 Hudson Street on the ninth floor, my biggest concern was that we would succeed in creating the largest single point of failure on the Eastern Seaboard. So I thought that it was important to create a mid-span meat point, at least on the island to start, and that's where 1025 Connect came from. That was 11 years ago. So the announcement, it's great, and it's fantastic how well-received it's been, but it wasn't an idea that just started yesterday. And similar with NJFX, which is now about four years running, and that's a brand new facility built spectacularly next to the Tata landing station in Wall, and the two really complement each other. They really do. That 1025 NJFX Wall Township location, both extremely great locations when thinking about your transatlantic capacity. And talk about the market in general. There seems to be a real need now that a lot of those old transatlantic cables are retiring. Yeah, some of them, several are coming near end of life. And I think really what the biggest shift is in the industry that we've seen is that the wholesale telecoms capacity business has fundamentally changed, and that the network operators that are underwriting financially, the construction of these new systems are the OTTs. And Aquacom plays an important critical role, both in AEC-1 and AEC-2, and AEC-1 coming into 1025, AEC-2 into NJFX, and then they'll be accessible from both facilities, 1025 Connect and NJFX. That's the new modern generation system. And some of the older systems, they have, well, limited capacity, but to say, not totally limited, but cost structures, really. That's more what the issue is. And those are also systems that backhaul into the city and have additional costs associated with that. And we've been seeing these OTTs, these big content guys, really turning into telecom operators themselves, and for sure in the subsea space. And that new announcement with Aquacom's and Facebook and Google. Google, the half root cable and bulk, yeah. And tell us, what do you see as prompting that? Well, the content providers aren't necessarily telecom operators in the traditional sense that we would think, because they're not selling network services, they're creating the systems for themselves, for their own control, really, their own consumption. Which is important to note that that's what's driving that part of the industry. So the attachment, let's say, or the association of a service provider of lit capacity or spectrum or even dark fiber pairs in the case of Aquacom's, particularly in the North Atlantic, I think it's really, really important. And the role that they play, and of course, we're very honored that they see the benefit of the facilities and the role that the facilities play complementing the new systems. And what I heard was that the majority of the capacity across the Atlantic is, and Pacific, is those content guys. So, you know. Of the new capacity, yeah. The new capacity. Certainly, all the new stuff that's been built was driven by them, and in some cases solely, you know, a consortium of non-telecom networks. I mean, you know, that's a pretty odd concept. But here we are, and in the same way that the new systems have been built by essentially new operators and new models, we have new interconnection facilities in new places for new reasons, and they're all beneficial. So I think, you know, the prospects are really bright. And Virginia Beach. Also, yeah. Also, yeah. Virginia Beach is coming along with Marae and Brusa, and there's, you know, a new facility going in down there, and we'll see how that develops. And you know, it's a great idea, you know, to build interconnection, neutral interconnection facilities, you know, near where the subsea cables land. Yeah. We've been talking about that for a bit. Yeah. For a while. Yeah. So Hunter, always a pleasure. The thought leader to know, Hunter Newby, my dear friend. 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