 Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Skado-Kutaya of JSA here at ITW 2016 and with me is Al Bergio. He's the CEO of Consul. Al, welcome to JSA TV. Thank you for having me. Thank you for being here and quite a week for you. I know this week, big news on the ITW floor is that you have a rename. Yes. 2011, our company was founded with the name IIX. Last year we unveiled our platform, our Consul platform and this week we announced the name of the company. It was a name change from IIX to Consul. Consul, so it's a platform? Yes. And it's got some unique attributes, key differentiators, particularly layer two, layer three. So can you tell us a little bit more about Consul, the benefits and the unique identifiers? Yeah, absolutely. So what we essentially have created with Consul is a global platform, software and interconnection platform that helps enable organizations of any kind to directly connect to a global ecosystem of other organizations. This could be cloud infrastructure providers, SaaS companies or other business critical partners to one's business. So think of it as enterprise connecting to enterprise or enterprise connecting to cloud or cloud connecting to cloud. And they can do this from any location and we've made it as simple as clicking a few buttons. So complete internet bypass that can happen in seconds. And I heard you say social, is there a social component like a LinkedIn type of feature? Yeah, absolutely. So obviously if I want to connect to another organization, I can't necessarily just do that. To speak to somebody or historically I would have to. And so within Consul, we actually created this concept of or integrated the concepts around social 2.0. So literally, I guess you can think of it like a social network. But as opposed to professionals or for connecting professionals together, it's meant to really connect organizations together, enterprise network to enterprise network. And so the ability to follow an organization, following an individual contribute content, but the key value prop obviously is to around performance and security, the ability for one organization to connect or network, regardless of where they're located to someone else. And that may be in the same city, the other side of the planet or the other side of the country. And we've created the virtual equivalent of allowing two organizations to exist as if they're in the same building with a wire between the two of them. So my company could have a profile yours does as well. I follow you. You follow me back. And then I can just interconnect with you with one click. That's correct. Yeah. So profile pages obviously are meant to build trust and identify, right? You want to make sure you're sending a request to connect to the right organization. And so with that, really our design approach, we encapsulated that capability. But ultimately, what really makes us unique is that we didn't just focus on creating what I would say private highway or layer two automation to give that either physical or virtual wire equivalent between two organizations. We created virtual routing technology that ultimately you can think of it like private highway and you don't need a manual to assemble a car, program the car for data then move on that highway. All of that happens within seconds. So private highway car automatically drives. In other words, data is flowing instantly. So for my private highway that I would ride to connect to you, how am I physically connecting to you? I use console and how many pops and around the world do you have? So we have today over 160 pops or points of presence across North America, Europe in the EMEA region and more recently added points of presence within the Asia Pacific region. We have data center partners, we have network service provider partners and through any of these partners in organization can connect to console and by with being connected to the littles one of these pops or note what we refer to as console node. You can connect to anybody else on the platform regardless of where they're located through a very slick and obviously biased but slick user interface that allows this to happen within seconds. Yeah. Actually, you were kind enough to give me a demo and I did see a really nice clean user interface which I appreciate from a marketing perspective. So for our clients who do want to learn more on our viewers and readers, how do they reach out to you? We obviously are on the web, it's console.to or to sign up it's go.console.to slash join. What does the .to stand for? So the concept of really this isn't necessarily connecting to one organization. You can connect to what we like to say everything direct connect. So it's console to this, console to that. Oh, I love it. So you heard it here console.to and thank you Al for joining us and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV. Happy networking.