 Hey there and welcome to Capacity Middle East extra powered by JSA. I'm Dean Perine at JSA and we are coming to you live That's right. We are coming to you live on location from the beautiful Grand Hyatt Dubai at Capacity Middle East And I am here with mr. Kevin Vachon Kevin is the COO of meth Kevin Welcome to to JSA TV. Great to be here and at the event. So let's talk about the event first I know we're gonna go. I'm just I'm already gonna go off script Let's talk about the event because I spoke to you this morning, which feels like it was 38 hours ago And at that time you and I were already beginning to like engage and get into meetings and things like that How's the event going for you? You know, this is one of my favorite industry events all the capacity events are and ITW So it's going excellent. It's it you know all the operators in the region are here from Africa the global players are here and You know the topic that we're gonna talk about today is is very timely and resonating. So we're having a great event as always Outstanding. Let's get right on that topic then I understand that some big news is coming out of the the meh media Office the meh media room. Why don't you tell us a little bit about? Yeah, well, let me just first tell you what meh does Don't skip that Gotcha So we're an industry association with a couple hundred member companies comprised of a network Providers the service providers that are here cloud providers technology providers And we're highly focused right now which ties to the news on Enabling intercarrier Automation particularly in the wholesale space is a starting point So and many of the companies that are here today that you see on the show floor and so on our member companies And so what we've done is we've developed a suite of standardized APIs to allow full service automation and across the wholesale partner basis Mm-hmm, and it's gaining very very significant traction We've now have over a hundred and fifteen service providers globally that are in one space or another of adoption Okay, we've had a relationship with the GLF. They're over there. I'm pointing over there for quite a number of years now Really as an enabler to their vision and today we had a joint-press release where they have formally We've signed an MOU to further collaborate, but they they formally endorsed the adoption of meh APIs So, you know, that's that's a tremendous factor feather in our cap Yeah, that it's such a senior executive community in there in the wholesale space and we're a very very important part of there You know their transformation efforts, you know in particular on that as I said in the wholesale automation area I love it. So that has been around a long time But it's not it's not the method. It was you know ten years ago let alone, you know 20 years ago Hey, let's talk. Let's talk a little bit about that evolution and that as an organization It does appear that that meh is kind of peeking around corners before the industry gets there Which is interesting way of putting it. Well, it just makes you a very viable Organization and all way, you know, you always hear about meh. Yeah, I'm way back way back. Yeah I mean, I think that's we we've we're a very business oriented Association We've focused very much on delivering work to the industry. That's service provider driven. That's very You know Practical in nature. So it gets we have very strong adoption rates of the work we do, you know but we have a long history of We were the original enablers of the carrier ethernet business Then we started to focus on enabling Automation of that around that area. We we moved up the stack to you know, delivering, you know, you know Really quality standards for SD when more recently with sassy and zero trust so this security as it you know becomes prominent and our vision has us being really a An automation vehicle to really automate services across an entire ecosystem starting from the enterprise Service providers wholesale hyperscalers SAS providers and so on and so forth We you know, there's a lot of different players in that ecosystem So I'm gonna bring all again many of them are here mid-mile players platform network as a service platform players So we're actually providing, you know, the really scalable standardized APIs and services to enable that this whole community to You know to demodernize in some ways, right? Yeah, and I guess that I mean, that's the perfect the perfect cyclical conversation, right because that's the way I was looking at math, too It's just kind of like always kind of like the modernization of the industry. You're always kind of involved there So, yeah, I mean congratulations. Congratulations on the on the great news from just this morning or yesterday morning So are you going home tonight or tomorrow tomorrow? Yeah, it's a bit of a short one for me, but We're busy people right now. Yeah, that's going on Kevin. Thanks for joining us. Awesome. You guys doing a great job Thank you so much. Thank you and thank you viewers for tuning in. We'll see you soon