 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals I'm Laura Noland here in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii at PTC 20 Joining me today on JSA TV for the very first time is John Ghirardelli The general manager of Kolo ATL and the director of US innovation for American Tower Lengthy title and we've got the man here to tell us all about it. Welcome John. Absolutely. Thanks for having me It's an honor to be here Well, it's been a pretty big year with last year with the American Tower acquiring Kolo ATL. So you have some new roles So for our viewers tell us about what you're doing now and and the services that you provide Sure, absolutely So American Tower as many you guys know is a kind of global telecommunications firm that owns wireless cell phone towers We set up an initiative a couple of years ago Call their innovation platform to kind of go out and identify new asset solution services So as part of that last year we acquired Kolo ATL carrier neutral data center interconnect facility in downtown, Atlanta It's our first initiative into the data center space So we're pretty honored and excited to do that and it's really been a initial toe dip in the water for us To explore an adjacent digital infrastructure category category for American Tower Okay, so you offer a carrier neutral colocation data center interconnection services at 55 Marietta Now what's what's coming up next any new updates on those fronts? Yeah, absolutely So what we've done is we acquired Kolo ATL from Tim Kaiser Kolo ATL has been around since early 2000s We have 20,000 square feet 2 megawatts of power and 55 Marietta And what we were really trying to do is just carry on the tradition and legacy of Tim and take it to Hopefully a new level by trying to combine it and interplay it with our wireless assets in the US And you also just announced a recent news a new customer that would be rural solutions So this customer is leasing space at one of your facilities. Tell us about that and what that relationship involves Yeah, so that's a pretty exciting customer for us We just recently announced it and it's unique because we are actually Physically combining our wireless tower asset outside of the greater Atlanta area and we're back calling it back to Kolo ATL for data center services So it's our first experiment which was part of our thesis to kind of connect these two Disparate infrastructure assets together and provide a wholesome unique solution for customers So rural solutions is a whisper wireless internet service provider And they came to us looking for tower space and due to the Kolo ATL acquisition We were able to provide them with some data center space as well And so we're really looking forward to welcome them to the Kolo ATL family and spend in 2020 thinking about other ways We can provide, you know a unique solution offering to new customers Excellent. So for viewers who want to know more about Kolo ATL and American Tower Tell us where to go. Yeah, I mean, I think you can reach out to me directly at KoloATL.com our website or an American Tower I wear two hats right now, right? So I'm the director of US innovation So still continuing out there looking at the space and identifying evaluated new opportunities And then we're in the hat as general manager to kind of drive that business to continue to grow And provide value for our customers Wonderful. Well, thank you for joining us and thank you viewers for joining us on JSA TV and JSA podcast. Happy networking