 Hey everybody, welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast, the newsroom for data center and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scott-Okitaya, and I'm so excited to say we are live broadcasting from the floor of ITW 2022. And it's a great year to be all back together post pandemic, and it's the 15th anniversary for ITW, a really remarkable year here. And on the floor of ITW, there's a lot of great news breaking. And joining me today to prove that is Mr. Mike Jonas, of course, the president of Light River. Mike, welcome back to JSA TV. Welcome back to us all. Yeah, welcome back to live. I love it. Well, it is certainly been an extraordinary few years since the last time I got to see you face to face. It's been so long. So for our viewers who might not be familiar, can you set the table, give us a little info on Light River? Of course. So Light River, we're in our 25th year of business and still doing the same thing we've always done, design, deploy, and automate packet optical transport networks, primarily for telecom service providers, cloud and data center operators, which are much in evidence here on the floor at ITW. And also we have a meaningful business with the investor owned utilities. And that brings us to the big news breaking. Your news regarding the acquisition by grain management LLC. Can you tell our viewers a little bit more? Yeah, you bet. So I mean, Light River has been growing organically and inorganically during those 25 years and a confluence of business events really, really required a bigger stage, more capable partners and more dedicated to this space. And as we look through the environment, we found grain is as vested in telecom as we are. 100% of their assets are invested in telecom assets, telecom operators or telecom facilitators, such as ourselves. And it just made a lot of sense to help propel not only Light River, but the entire grain portfolio forward faster and not only the long haul and the regional networks that we've historically built, but the new access edge, the new fiber to the home is hitting everywhere, probably every booth in this building is talking about that. And some of the new relationships we have because of the grain acquisition are poised to pay huge dividends for us now and in the future. So exciting, grain, Light River, such great companies, great people coming together, partnering to do, again, such a great service to telecom. Now, what are these key growth initiatives that Light River is up to, things that we can look forward to as 2022 unfold? Well, yeah, so we spent a good deal of the pandemic building out our facilities. We invested during those two years, our customers were growing, we broadened our facilities, we broadened our features, we broadened the software capabilities radically during those two years and are hitting the floor hard as it comes to making sure that we can deploy the latest and open network technologies for all three of our primary sales sectors. So they're all moving towards open, they all want to deploy it, but they now want to deploy it everywhere. So we're gonna be taking these networks further to the edge than ever before and there'll be higher capacity, higher features and more appropriate to that end user experience. I gotta say, you're award-winning. Every time I turn around, you've won another award. So it's so amazing, obviously, the industry recognizing Light River for its extraordinary work. So what are you looking most forward to here at ITW? The energy, the energy is back. I mean, what else can we ask for? I've got dozens of meetings, as I'm sure you do, but with people who are eager to not only catch up, but go forward and it's gonna be a great couple of days. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. The energy is back, the industry back together after a trying few years with this pandemic, but so nice, again, to see you, Mike, in person. I missed you. Usually we do this at least a couple of times a year, PTC, ITW, but again, so great to see you in person and here on JSA TV, thank you for your support and always your breaking news. It's such a great honor to watch Light River scale and grow. Appreciate the opportunity to catch up and we will see each other more than once every two years from here on out. Absolutely. All right, guys, thank you so much for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA Podcast. As always, think green and happy networking.