 This is JSA TV the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Dean Perine and welcome to JSA TV We are coming at you on location from ITW 2018 in the windy city of Chicago, Illinois And I have got quite a group with me at this at this time for this interview this JSA TV interview And so let's get to some introductions. First of all, I've got mr. Victor Tria and Victor is the At PLDT alpha he is the Excuse me, but easy for me to say he is the first vice president and head of corporate business solutions I have mr. Richard Ortega for PLDT US He is the managing director and senior advisor and then last but certainly not least my new friend mr. Wade Chen Wade is with Zen layer and he is the director of Global Alliance so just so that we kind of set the stage gentlemen Why don't Victor? We'll start with you. Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about PLDT enterprise? Well, thank you the PLDT enterprise is the B2B arm of PLDT Which is the leading ICT and digital service provider in the Philippines our mission is to empower and And enable businesses of all sizes With the latest technologies to keep them competitive in this in this very competitive Technology environment. Thank you very much Victor and Richard anything to add there. We represent also the global enterprise client base those that are currently doing business in the Philippines and New enterprise clients that could be new to the Philippines new to Southeast Asia in general We service those clients out of the US basically North America the UK Amia and other parts of Asia So I represent the global arm of the enterprise business And we have somebody that also manages that group out of Asia. So we are a global company Very good. Thank you Richard and Wade. It's your turn Wade with Zen layer. Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about Zen layer? So Zen layer We have a software-defined platform that we allow for a bare metal to go on demand layer 2 connectivity on demand Dynamic acceleration and then that's kind of why we're working with some of the cares to provide this platform to them and enable them to get to market quicker and Basically, you know catch up with everything that you know the cloud is doing and things that are on demand very good Thank you Wade. So the reason why we're all here together is because their companies have just made Some just dropped some very exciting news. So who would like to talk about that? I could tell them all I want, but I prefer that you guys talk about it Who wants to talk about that first? Yeah, how about you Victor? Go ahead. Go ahead. We are actually partnering with with Zen layer To roll out the software-defined wide-area networking solution. This is for the growing base of PLD these Global enterprise customers. The intent is to to give options to Customers who would like to wanting to have connections between US and the Philippines and China and the Philippines and vice versa and and we hope to launch this By the end of this quarter or by the start of third quarter. Awesome. Thank you Victor Wade, why don't you tell us a little bit about your involvement? So as the director of alliances, you know I work with PLDT to let them know what our software-defined networking does working with their entire team to put the POC together So they can test this and then also getting it ready for the production environment So that their customers can start leveraging this and then also helping You know educate their team on what exactly our software-defined platform can do to help them achieve the goals that they're trying to reach Very cool. Very cool. But you mentioned customers So let's stay on that theme and I'm gonna direct this to you Richard, why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about what this what this partnership actually means to your customers? Well a lot in PLDT on the global front and domestic front are looking for services that are relevant to the client base We don't want to develop a technology. It's not useful. Obviously SD WAN is very relevant And we found Zenlayer in some of our discussions many many months ago maybe two years ago wait now Yeah, yeah, and so we thought it's perfect to look at you know future technologies that really augment what we do globally and We're attempting to do globally, but you know the customers benefit in many ways our customers Our customers are ones that work 24 by 7 Sometimes they need to have network spun up in a matter of minutes hours days So the agility and provisioning agility and managing application security concerns when you look at maybe interfacing in a global network In a global network when you think about internet connections So SD WAN solves so many of our issues as we look to the future and Zenlayer was the perfect partner as they're growing. We will grow globally with their technology Supporting us so outstanding Richard and that was the perfect segue for my next question because I know that that Wade The the partnership really kind of extends your capability and your reach Why don't you tell our viewers about that? So what's in there? We have about 80 plus pops and that's growing where we work in the data centers We have the local IP transit and also we procure a lot of the backbone network. So partnering with PTT is great because they have a very strong Philippine and Southeast Asia network and also going to the US London as well So they're also very global and that ties in perfectly with what we're doing So because we're able to have that network in place already Areas where we're weak or we're working with the carriers we can actually bolster their network So not just Philippine the LA they can reach anywhere in the US where we have a presence They can reach from into China where we have a presence they can reach into India and Indonesia Southeast Asia's there's a lot of people that are you know looking on their mobiles growing the internet landscape is You know just exploding there, right? So the ability to tap into like you know six more data centers in India another five in Indonesia Amsterdam London like with a touch of a button. So you're not kidding. That's that's real expansion there, right? That's awesome. So guys the the underlying technology that we're talking about here is SD WAN SD WAN is obviously very topical very buzzy, especially around the ITW show floor, but that's that's what's happening now and and we haven't really Discussed what's happening in the future. So here's for the last question what I'd like to do is just have each of you tell me Where you think SD WAN is going the future of SD WAN as it relates to your companies Victor will start with you Well, the good thing about SD WAN is that it gives you the flexibility, especially its bond on-demand capability so business can just a scale connectivity up and down For peak and value requirements. So that's the good especially now with explosion of data with most of our customers wanting or sending video data In their circuits or in their in their in their bond with our connectivity So this is an opportunity for for PLDT. We have a growing base of customers This is our this is our mission, which is to to give available technologies or Enable our customers with these new latest technologies to make them competitive in this in this in this environment Thank you very much Victor Richard It's something that exists today, but it's so critical when you look at the speed of provisioning global networks So where are we going in the future as an industry as? Businesses things are happening at light speed as we know so we need to make relevant services and products to make sure we assure The fastest provisioning possible SD WAN within layer allows us to do that Unlike we've seen in global networks So you can compare it to a lot of different technologies layer three layer two, but what it does it really helps us define Global networks faster better security actually improves in some way. We won't get this. He's the technical guy here, but it really does Fulfill so many things that are future issues. I mean we're talking now five ten years down the road That's what we have to do as technologists in our industry We have to look five years from now and say what is it going to be obviously? We want to be relevant, you know, right? We don't want to produce a product and and say oh gosh, you know, we hope you use it, right? Yeah, that happens or obviously, but you know, we want to support our global community of Customers and future customers and I know that speed provisioning assurance of application Applications plural is so critical so you can say whatever technology is going to be down the road But those things are so important to whatever we do and I think it allows us to have this capability As far as SD when it's something that is really relevant now and in the near-term and long-term future I'm standing. Thank you Richard and Wade. You have the final word. Let's say you buddy. So we're Really excited to work with them on this because obviously In that space that the SD wine is helping them provision stuff instantly and right now We're kind of catching up with everyone that's already using cloud and being able to turn stuff open up on demand And they're used to that right so by allowing them to do this And then doing this across the entire vertical from the bare metal that can be turned up on demand to the circus I can be turned up on demand to dynamic acceleration that they can turn up on demand and then allowing them to do this globally You know imagine being able to turn up a global network and like 80 some odd pops with all the backbones Local IP transit, you know with a touch of button, you know within a day They can provision that and it can scale, you know, it lets them scale up and down So that's like something that is very unique Outstanding gentlemen. Thank you very much for joining us and for your time today Hopefully you were having a great show and you will enjoy the rest of the show. Thank you Thank you, but you bet and thank you viewers for watching JSA TV. We'll see you soon