 Hi everyone and welcome back to JSA TV and JSA podcast where we're covering the latest news stories and innovations from Leaders across our industry where we're talking about global connectivity and digital infrastructure and talking to great leaders like yourself Craig Kaplan VP of sales for Zenlayer. Thanks for joining us. Very happy to be here. Thanks for having me Yeah, we're halfway through right about dame halfway through day two of capacity year of house the week going so far for you It's been a fantastic week We connecting with a lot of our global partners and this is a place for where they all come together and We're very much excited to be here and look forward to the next two days. Yeah, you've a lot to look forward to I think I Don't want to say it. I want you to say it. Is there anything you want to share? Are you ready to share? Well, you've got an exclusive announcement and sneak preview news In about 30 minutes, we're signing our first strategic partnership with the Middle East Fantastic partner with mobility We're incredibly excited to extend our hyper connected edge even farther into the Middle East And we're gonna have a lot more things to come with the mobility partnership Announcement thanks for sharing that with us and I'm sure yet more news will follow on that. I have no doubt From there, let's talk about sort of where you are now and where you're looking to go in terms of new markets You're maybe just for our viewers a bit of a snapshot of of your current, you know Coverage where where you're currently focused. Yeah, it's next happen to chat about that We're very committed to scaling out our hyper connected cloud Not only emerging markets new markets but current markets So we're approaching pushing our edge computing out to close to 300 pops and a hundred terabit network so we're really Scaled ups especially in the last few years In order to support not only media and entertainment companies But enterprise and the infrastructure companies out there serving all internet companies out there So I think a few years ago Folks would have looked at Zen layer and saw our our emerging market infrastructure in Asia Yeah, and now you can take a look at Zen layer and see that we're an emerging market company really globally. Yeah, yeah Amazing. Yeah, it's it's We certainly love chatting with you and the rest of the team at Zen layer and hearing about all of these Developments as they come and I'm sure there will be more you hinted at a few Is there anything else that you can sort of get a give us a pee? I'm asking for all the More secrets. Yeah, well, I think the other thing that we're very excited about is that our console in our Instant digital compute platform I really think a lot of folks don't know that we're already deployed in 50 locations globally with our bare metal solution and our VM Solution so a lot of folks can just go to the Zen layer Website and plug in and really take a look in our looking glass and see our very low latency Around the worlds for these services And even tested out themselves and so we're going to continue to invest Into our our compute platform and continue to extend in this mobility partnerships going to help us do that Yeah, yeah, I bet I bet so what's the rest of the week look like for you? It's busy jam packed. I'm sure Yeah, it is very busy We really support our partners in the data center space quite quite a bit networking services space So we really support them being Able to contract really around the world very quickly with their clients both in their data center services and their network services So we have a very busy week because we want to see everybody here From the partnership side our direct customers are here Meeting with us, so we'll continue to do that and try to have a little bit fun in between Yeah, great. Yeah, it's always a good show always lots lots of great folks to talk to you And so it sounds like you've got a full agenda for those folks who may miss you this time Where can they connect with you? I'm really easy to find You can you could find me of course Setting an email to sales at zennlare.com and that way my whole team sees it and then you'll get a quicker response from my Whole team but to put me in touch. I also love to get LinkedIn connections directly Yeah, I checked that out every once in a while and make sure that people want to meet me directly Can ping me there? Okay, great. So sales at zennlare.com and then directly with you on LinkedIn so thank you. Yes. Thanks. It was great chatting with you we look forward to chatting again more down the road and Thank you viewers for tuning in again today to JSA TV and JSA podcasts Enjoy the rest of the show. We'll be back in a few minutes with more coverage from leaders around the industry until then happy networking Thank you