 This is JSATV the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Dean Perine and welcome to JSATV. We are coming at you live from the Big Apple in New York City at the telecom exchange or techs and I am here with my friend Mr. Eric Contag. Eric is the CEO of GlobeNet. Eric welcome to JSATV. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me. Always a pleasure. Outstanding Eric. So how's the show going for you? Oh phenomenal. I mean we love coming here. I think you know my team that that's here enjoys it very much. The camaraderie is phenomenal. You know meeting people in the industry that you haven't seen for a while. It's great. It's a perfect venue. Eric you're more than just an attendee. You're also a participant and I understand that you are just getting out of a CEO roundtable and forgive me for having to write this down as fiber as an investment. Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about some of the key points that were discussed during that roundtable. Oh the roundtable was phenomenal. We had people from YRE. We had a representative from Hibernia and Central Lincoln of course myself from GlobeNet and I tried to add the perspective of not only the U.S. market but also the international Latin American market. We heard from Canada. We heard from the U.S. We heard about the trouble and how hard it is in some cases mainly on the access side and the fact that our industry is changing. I think I think that's that's a very important point. I think we're seeing a huge growth in demand not only in the United States but as well internationally. You know there's there's a lot happening right and at the end of the day 2020 is going to be a year of 5G maybe 2022 in Latin America. People are talking in the previous panel about Internet of Things and how that's going to change things and in order for all these things to happen you have to have an infrastructure and ideally it needs to be a very solid robust diverse resilient infrastructure in order to be able to deliver these services. The question then becomes is outside of highly densely populated areas rural areas what do you do. So we had a lot of discussion about about that piece a lot of fun actually. Very good. So okay you mentioned international and let's go there. Let's talk international. Let's talk about the the Olympic Games in Rio. I understand that that is a pretty key market for you there. Why don't you tell our viewers your our viewers a little bit about what the games kind of mean to GlobeNet. Oh absolutely. I mean we're very excited about the Olympics. We actually were a key provider of services for the World Cup in 2014 and we learned an awful lot. It was very important to actually have a very robust and resilient network and I'm very happy to report that that we delivered without a glitch. Excellent. Absolutely important. Right. I think I think the difference between the World Cup and the Olympics this time around is that in the case of the World Cup you had stadiums all over the country and you had very long backhalls to be able to reach those facilities. It was a challenge. Olympics is different. I mean it's all going to be held in in the city of Rio and the state of Rio. So it's more about diversity about being able to provide feeds in parallel. There's a lot of games happening at the same time. So and and we have very large carriers that depend on us and and support broadcasters that are going to be using our infrastructure to be able to provide these services live. That's so exciting. Absolutely. I mean it's a lot of fun. Failure is not an option. Right. So so we have built up our team just to be able to support the Olympics. We're working very very closely with the Brazilian sponsor of the Olympics. We have recurring meetings with our technical teams to make sure that that all the procedures are in place and we've tested the network that that I mean it cannot fail. Right. Right. And so it's going to be great. Outstanding. Eric thanks as always for being with us on JSA TV. Thank you for your your your event support here at telecom exchange. How can our viewers find out more about GlobeNet. Well first and foremost thank you very much for having me here. You're very welcome. It's it's it's really great. It's phenomenal to to participate regarding GlobeNet. Please visit us at www.globe net dot net. Outstanding. Thanks again Eric. Thank you very much. Very good. And thank you viewers for watching JSA TV. We'll see you soon.