 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Laura Noland at JSA. Joining me today is Mike Cunningham CEO of Crosslake Fiber. Mike welcome to JSA TV. Hi Laura good to be here. Well I know you have some big news to share but first if you could tell our viewers a little bit about Crosslake Fiber. Sure Crosslake Fiber is a developer owner and operator of unique fiber optic cable systems. Generally we focus on developing new routes that have unique characteristics to them and and generally ones that have a unique route in that they go through somebody of water. Our first project Lake Ontario project goes from Toronto down into New York State through Lake Ontario and provides a new physically diverse and lower latency route from Canada into the US. So let's talk about that exciting news just mentioned right before you started telling us about Crosslake Fiber. What did you recently announced to the marketplace? Yeah so we're really excited to announce a new project that we've that we've kicked off called Cross Channel Fiber. Cross Channel Fiber is a new project to build a new subsea route from from Slough in the United Kingdom to Paris in France via the English Channel. So we're really excited about kicking off this this new project and and getting it underway. So this is the first cable across the English Channel in 20 years so what is the significance of this part of the world and location and why there? Yeah I mean the English Channel is a very busy place. There's lots of cables in the English Channel. We will be the first cable telecom cable to be constructed in the English Channel in nearly 20 years and it really represents a new piece of core infrastructure that will connect these two very interconnected you know digital hubs. They're very much the the hubs in sort of a hub and spoke kind of structure of the internet and we're very excited to to bring to market this this really new piece of infrastructure that has a high fiber count and very high capacity and represents really the best in breed in terms of technology that you can bring to the market today. So what type of customers will benefit from this high capacity subsea cable system? Yeah I mean the benefits will be seen by really anyone who uses the internet but in terms of our direct or direct users ourselves there really other telecommunications companies other cloud content providers financial institutions media companies really those sorts of companies and enterprises that has requirements for for a large amount of bandwidth between these two key markets. We certainly are excited to follow the developments and and look forward to Cross Channel Fiber's completion date in the fall of 2021 but in the meantime do you have any other future projects in the works that you can share with us? We do I mean the the next project is obviously the the Cross Channel fiber project that we'll go into service next year but we do have a pipeline of other projects that we're developing including a Wally project from New Jersey up into Long Island and the Maple Leaf Fiber project from Toronto to Montreal via Kingston. A lot's happening at Cross Lake Fiber. Well Mike where can our viewers go to learn more? Sure you can always go to www.crosslakefiber.ca and learn more about us learn more about us there. Well thank you so much Mike we appreciate you joining us and sharing with us all your exciting news at Cross Lake Fiber and more to come. Well thank you Laura. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcast. Happy networking.