 Welcome, welcome to JSA TV. We are coming to you live from Metro Connect USA 2024 in beautiful Fort Lauderdale, Florida. So amazing to be here. Another Metro Connect under the belt. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, we're so excited just getting in, getting settled here today. It's already buzzing here on the floor, so we're so excited. And to talk a little bit about this event, just a little bit of background, such an important touchstone for the digital infrastructure community. We have deals being made here, huge M&A action going on, and to just talk about the future of the industry. Absolutely. And so we're going to be talking with leaders in the U.S. fiber market, as well as data centers, cloud providers, wireless communications infrastructure providers, and more as well as their investors. So we're looking forward to kicking off those JSA TVs for you this morning. And over 2,000 attendees, 90 speakers and 650 companies here. It's sure to be a very busy week. So follow along as we get our interviews started and cover the event live from Fort Lauderdale. See you soon. Welcome to JSA TV, where we're covering the latest stories, trends, and innovations from leaders in global connectivity, digital infrastructure, and the networks within. I'm Allison Whelan, and joining me today is Patton Lockridge of Ban with IG. Today we're going to be chatting a little bit about dark fiber across key U.S. data center markets. So Patton, welcome. Thank you so much for joining me. Thank you so much for having me. Of course. So Ban with IG is one of the fastest growing pure play dark fiber companies in the U.S. with networks in all of the key markets. Can you tell us more about your networks and why you've chosen those specific markets? Sure, networks and markets. I mean, I think start with the networks. I think it's relevant to explain the way that we've, like the physical asset, the way that we've built it, and then explain kind of where we take it. Because I think it's a little bit different than what we typically see in the market. So we've, you mentioned we're pure play dark fiber infrastructure provider, and that is true. And thus we have a set of customers that are really the largest consumers of bandwidth in the world. That's naturally going to be who demands dark fiber. So they're pretty peculiar about the way that they want their networks built. I'm sure. As you can probably imagine. So if you go into a big network, Ban with IG, a market, and you look at the asset, it's going to be built almost exactly the same in every market that we're in. It's 100% underground. It's essentially maxing out conduit and duct packages in the right-of-way, pulling large high-count cables. So trying to solve for scalability. And we'll do it in right-of-way that we procure and that we build in that's typically unique and typically different from some of the incumbents that already exist in that market. That's how we think we add value. So it's really truly purpose-built. Absolutely. There's definitely that value in scalability key. Yep. And that's what we're after. And then the markets, you know, why are we in the markets that we're in and why are we going to the markets that we're going to? Well, naturally, a lot of these customers that we work with, they're in the data centers, right? And one thing I didn't mention about our networks is that we build express routes between data centers. So that's another differentiator. We're not trying to splice out and take fiber, a pair here, a pair there to every cell tower, every enterprise building, others do that. That's important for the market in general, but it's not where we fit in. We truly build undisturbed, kind of express routes in between the centers of compute. So data centers, third-party data centers, you know, cloud campuses, carrier hotels, anything where you have a big core central nucleus of compute is where we want to be. And so when we're going into markets, naturally that ecosystem needs to either exist or we think it's going to exist sometime in the future. And so that's kind of why we're in the markets that we're in is those data center ecosystems really exist. And the second thing we look at is, and this is usually not a hard one, is we'll go into a market and for that type of application in the infrastructure that is needed in these markets, from a fiber infrastructure standpoint, typically doesn't exist. And so that's important for us. If it doesn't exist, we want to be there to make it available to our customers. Every market has fiber, but it's not all built equally. It's not all built the same way. It's not all built the way that our customers need it. So that's kind of, that's our network and that's why we go where we go. Strategic targeting there. And dark fiber is such a critical piece of the network pie. How are things like cloud computing and AI, which I'm sure we'll talk about while we care at Metro Connect, but things like AI contributing to the need for more dark fiber. Yeah, I mean, well, that's everything to us, right? I mean, obviously cloud computing happens in the data center. And so it's those customers that we partner most closely with. So yes, they are driving the dark fiber industry. And I think you've got four major cloud providers, right? Their trajectory has been steepened to the right for years. And that's just for cloud computing. And so we're a big part of helping them solve that. And there's many private cloud providers and others that we work with as well. I think the second part of that question is kind of how it's changing and how it's giving rise to more demand. Let's just talk AI. Because cloud computing's been happening for a while. AI in recent 12, 24 months, there's absolutely unprecedented demand for compute, space, power, to solve this, just kind of like, I can't think of a better word than unprecedented in terms of the amount of demand that we're seeing for data centers, space and power. And with that, it's going to require more fiber. Because the fiber, oh sorry, because these facilities demand so much power, everybody's only talking about power, power, power. And that's driving a lot of these developers and these hyperscalers and so forth out of a traditional metro and into more kind of semi-rural, kind of deep suburbia. And so I think kind of the way that it's contributing to more development in dark fiber and changing that is it's no longer just sitting in the middle of a metro where fiber was considered fungible, it's just sort of around. That's not the way it is anymore. It's now way outside of the metro. The worst thing you can do is build a big 100 megawatt facility and then not have fiber to it. So we're spending a lot more time way in advance of these developments with our data center partners, our hyperscale partners and those that are interested in driving this development to ensure that we're getting multiple routes, built the way we build it out to these new locations that haven't existed before. Absolutely, fiber is key. AI just doesn't happen on its own, right? No, I don't think so, yeah. No, and to talk about markets a little bit more, last month you announced a big network expansion in San Francisco. Congratulations, by the way, so exciting for your team. What additional plans do you have to keep up with the demand for more dark fiber in areas like San Francisco or these other markets that we discussed? Yeah, I mean, I think San Francisco was textbook kind of market for us to enter. And you have a very robust data center ecosystem that already exists in that market, right? So that's something that I don't think it's maybe second behind Northern Virginia is the most critical IT load and one central in geography. So for us to come in and interconnect a lot of those facilities and keep up with that growth was a very natural thing for us to do. There were a lot of kind of older telecommunications networks in the ground that, like I said, may serve the purpose for enterprise locations, may send packets up and down office buildings, but are not quite cut out for kind of the new AI compute requirements and data center compute requirements. So that was a very natural place for us to come in and kind of change that market from a fiber perspective. I think we'll continue to look for markets like that and grow into more markets like that as those demand signals come. And really in our existing markets, data centers used to just be fine with a route in a route out. No problem, you know, fiber piece of this is done. That's totally changed now. You're seeing tenants of these data centers say, no, no, I need three routes, I need four routes and not just entrances that are unique, but actual paths through the metros that are completely unique from a tertiary or even a quadrier, whatever word that is, four routes to solve kind of their minimum requirement. So that's kind of what we're up to. Well, you guys are definitely busy and congratulations again on the growth. It was great getting to catch up with you and see you. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV. Thanks a lot. Thanks for joining us as we broadcast from the JSA TV newsroom live to LinkedIn and YouTube. You got it. Hey, Dino, we are here to bring you all the latest and greatest from the world of data centers and telecom straight from the pages of telecom news blog, which is what you can get to if you scan over my shoulder. That's correct. I'm Dean Perrine, Executive Vice President at JSA and joining me as always is the lovely my friend, my mentor, my boss, Jamie Skadokataya, founder and CEO of JSA. Thank you, thank you. And yes, hello out there. Or should I say Aloha? That's for all of you guys recently returning home from PTC in Honolulu. I know you're missing the Aloha love. Well, I wasn't there this year, sadly, but our top brass, right? Dean, we sent them out. And all I hear is it was a huge, huge success with record breaking attendance. And I especially wish I could have joined that K&N rooftop party. It sounded like a total blast. Beautiful pictures from there. It did sound like a blast. And Jamie, I don't know. Do you see all the pictures from that? Everyone looked a little sunkissed. I was very jealous of that. That's for sure. They did. Everyone had that glow. I know, I couldn't make it this year, but fortunately, JSA still had it covered with our crack events team and JSA TV broadcasters. I got to watch all of those. They were awesome. So make sure that you check out the JSA TV YouTube channel for tons of interviews from PTC. We managed to catch lots of great moments and insights that you don't want to miss out on. And you know what? For me, one of those big pieces of news coming out of PTC was the announcement of PTC's new partnership with Columbia Business School Executive Education, which they got together to develop the new top talent leadership development program. So really exciting, very cool there. Yeah, absolutely. Very, very, very cool. And it kicks off next year in Hawaii with 30 executive participants. And I can't wait to see how that goes. Well, we better get to the news before you change back. So ready to jump in with the first segment of today's show, my friend? Yes. Let's get into it with the Movers and Shakers from the past month. Courtesy of JSA's Fast Forward. Here is your Movers and Shakers news. From new hires to award wins and events and publishing news, but it is mostly hiring announcements this time around. So let's kick it off with publishing first. Light River announced a new study that's all about interoperable networking along with partner OpenZR Plus. Light River tested optical transceiver modules with a number of vendors to prove that they can easily integrate with existing infrastructure. Very, very important. So check out their new white paper to learn more about that. Well done, well done, Dean. Okay, our next mover and shaker is T5 data centers. We love those guys. They made a leadership change by adding David Miller as their new EVP of sales and marketing. So congratulations, David. He comes with plenty of experience in both sales and data network and network engineering. So great fit for T5. Yeah, lots of stuff going on over there at T5 and good people too, I love them. There are other new VP appointments around the industry as well with Jim Brinkzma joining Light River as their SVP of software solutions. Jim is a long time SaaS expert. You could say he was sassy. He's been sassy for a while. So Light River is betting on him to lead them into continuing to innovate in the optical networking space. And we can't leave out Invota, our friends there. They also did some great hiring. They announced Gabriel Urru as their senior director of product and also big one announcing Bret Lindsay as CEO. Congratulations. Yeah, and we should say that this move coincides with some other big announcements from Invota, including an expansion into Green Bay and recovery related stories from innovations from leaders in global connectivity, digital infrastructure and the next reason. I'm Allison Nealett coming to you live from Metro Connect USA 2024. And today I'm joined by Karen Miller and Jeff Spokak of Voxity Infrastructure Group which develops, and deploys comprehensive fiber objects, wireless and related network infrastructure. Welcome, thank you both for joining us. Welcome to JSA TV where we're covering the latest stories, trends and innovations from leaders in global connectivity, digital infrastructure and the networks within. I'm Allison Whelan coming to you live from Metro Connect USA 2024 in beautiful Fort Lauderdale. And today I am joined by Karen Miller and Jeff Sobotka of Voxity Infrastructure Group which develops, designs and deploys comprehensive, fiber optic, wireless and related network infrastructure. Jeff, Karen, thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks for having us. Thank you for having us. Of course. So Jeff, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and vivacity? So my background is in telecommunications extending back 30 years. I started with what was known as, well it's not Lumen anymore, but now it's Lumen working for AT&T, T-Mobile and XO communications. So a very different group of companies within that industry. In 2019, I had the opportunity to become the state broadband director for the state of Arizona when I was appointed. I did that through the end of 2022 which was fun and interesting in its own right. And then for the last year, I've been working with vivacity, what I love about vivacity as you mentioned earlier is that we do design, build, operate, maintain and commercialize networks all around the country. Awesome. Thank you so much for introducing yourself and Karen, congratulations on your recent transition to director of commercialization at vivacity. Can you tell us a little bit about your new role? Thank you. My role, at vivacity, we represent a lot of government and utility organizations. And many of those companies have built out lots of dark fiber and conduit assets that facilitate broadband service. And my role here is gonna be to help commercialize those assets. Well, congratulations. Thank you again for joining us. So network infrastructure growth is occurring nationwide especially with initiatives like NTIA middle mile program and BEAD. How is EX technology and vivacity company fueling the breakdown of those broadband barriers? So we're active all around the country. One of our current projects is in Grafton County, New Hampshire where we're building a middle mile network to connect the various communities within Grafton County. Grafton County won one of 11 NTIA middle mile grants which is very exciting for the community and for that region of the country. We're also excited about BEAD because BEAD offers us the opportunity to partner with states and counties and cities but with ISPs as well to deliver service to end users within those communities. Looking forward, I think one of the interesting trends within the industry is the ability of states through the Department of Transportation to partner with their broadband office. State of Utah sort of pioneered that. State of Arizona and state of Kansas have started to work on that. Not only building new asset but unlocking the value as Karen had mentioned in existing fire burning and existing assets. This is this way the taxpayer gets more for their buck because things that are sitting dormant all of a sudden become monetized and provide valuable services to the citizens in those communities. That's great and that's wonderful for those communities and great that these initiatives are available. Is there anything else on the horizon? We have so much stuff on the horizon. Yeah. We, like Jeff mentioned earlier we service multiple markets across the country but the majority of what I would call the contiguous assets are in the Southwest. So for example, Arizona Department of Transportation has several large projects tied up across Arizona along all of what I would consider to be the main interstate routes throughout the state. So I-17 was recently completed by ADOT. It connects Phoenix to Flagstaff. Another one of our clients, APS, is going to deliver a route between Phoenix and Payson which is the North Eastern part of the state. And then we also are, or I'm sorry, ADOT is working between Tucson and Nogales to create infrastructure on that route as well. So lots of good activity bringing much needed broadband and services to areas that have really never seen this type of infrastructure at least as long as I've lived in Arizona. We're very much like Switzerland tying all these different networks together. So she had mentioned, you have state assets but you also have the two large selectric utilities in Arizona that we manage. Anytime you can interconnect networks it makes all the networks more valuable for everybody in terms of redundancy and other things. So we're super excited about this opportunity to work not just within Arizona but around the country. We do a lot of work in the Upper Midwest. We're doing the Atlanta Beltline in Atlanta, Georgia, the Indiana toll road in the Upper Midwest and making it work for the actual users is the exciting thing for me. And our company does an excellent job of working not just with the government entities but working with the private sector as well to pull these solutions together. Yeah, I love that making it work, making it work for the communities, making it work for the different parts of our organization and our industry, of course. But thank you so much, Jeff and Karen. It was great getting to chat with you today and thank you for joining us on JSA TV and thank you viewers for tuning in live from Metro Connect USA 2024. See you soon. Thank you. Thanks for joining us as we broadcast from the JSA TV newsroom live to LinkedIn and YouTube. You got it. Hey, Dino. We are here to bring you all the latest and greatest from the world of data centers and telecom, straight from the pages of a telecom news blog, which is what you can get to if you scan over my shoulder. That's correct. I'm Dean Perrine, Executive Vice President at JSA and joining me as always is the lovely my friend, my mentor, my boss, Jamie Scatochettia, founder and CEO of JSA. Thank you, thank you. And yes, hello out there. Or should I say Aloha? That's for all of you guys recently returning home from PTC in Honolulu. I know you're missing the Aloha love. Well, I wasn't there this year, sadly, but our top brass, right? Dean, we sent them out and all I hear is it was a huge, huge success with record breaking attendance and I especially wish I could have joined that K&N rooftop party. Sounded like a total blast. Beautiful pictures from there. It did sound like a blast. And Jamie, I don't know. Do you see all the pictures from that? Everyone looked a little sunkissed. I was very jealous of that. That's what we're doing. We did. Everyone had that glow, that glow. I know, I couldn't make it this year, but fortunately, JSA still had it covered with our crack events team and JSA TV broadcasters. I got to watch all of those. They were awesome. So make sure that you check out the JSA TV YouTube channel for tons of interviews from PTC. We managed to catch lots of great moments and insights that you don't want to miss out on. And you know what? For me, one of those big pieces of news coming out of PTC was the announcement of PTC's new partnership with Columbia Business School Executive Education, which they got together to develop the new top talent leadership development program. So really exciting, very cool there. Yeah, absolutely very, very, very cool. And it kicks off next year in Hawaii with 30 executive participants. And I can't wait to see how that goes. Well, we better get to the news before you change back. So ready to jump in with the first segment of today's show, my friend? Yes, let's get into it with the Movers and Shakers from the past month. Courtesy of JSA's Fast Forward. Here is your Movers and Shakers news. From new hires to award wins and events and publishing news. But it is mostly hiring announcements this time around. So let's kick it off with publishing first. Light River announced a new study that's all about interoperable networking. Along with partner OpenZR Plus, Light River tested optical transceiver modules with a number of vendors to prove that they can easily integrate with existing infrastructure. Very, very important. So check out their new white paper to learn more about that. Well done, well done, Dean. Okay, our next mover and shaker is T5 Data Centers. We love those guys. They made a leadership change by adding David Mellor as their new EVP of Sales and Marketing. So congratulations, David. He comes with plenty of experience in both sales and data network and network engineering. So great fit for T5. Yeah, lots of stuff going on over there at T5 and good people too, I love them. There are other new VP appointments around the industry as well with Jim Brinkzma joining Light River as their SVP of Software Solutions. Jim is a longtime SaaS expert. You could say he was sassy. He's been sassy for a while. So Light River is betting on him to lead them into continuing to innovate in the optical networking space. And we can't leave out Envolta, our friends there. They also did some great hiring. They announced Gabriel Urru as their senior director of product and also big one announcing Bret Lindsay as CEO. Congratulations. Yeah, and we should say that this move coincides with some other big announcements from Envolta, including an expansion into Green Bay and the launch of their new secure power co-location offering. So lots happening over at Envolta, definitely one to watch. Yeah, they are like the overachievers of 2024 already. And it's only number one. All right, so the next up is collaboration and innovation. And here we go. Oh, wait, that was you, sorry. That's okay, that's okay. And swish, collaboration and innovation, here we go. And now we're here to the collaboration and innovation segment where we break down new partnerships, new products, new services and new sustainability initiatives. So Jamie, take it away. Ooh, big, big fine bar to set. Okay, let's go. We start off with Lantana, LED, who supplies lightning for data halls all over the country. And they recently unveiled two new product lines designed to meet the very demanding needs of data centers. The first one called Ellucent and the second one, Neoterek. Both specifically designed with data centers in mind. And speaking of cool products, there's a new AI service being used by SaskTel, the primary telecom provider for all of Saskatchewan in Canada. It's a virtual agent for mobile customers called Lumbot created by software company Aleppo. Aleppo is very proud of Lumbot as it's highly adaptive and fine tuned for understanding language. Jamie, we are truly living in the future and I am truly thrilled that I got through that announcement with all of those words. We really are and our clients are right there on the bleeding edge of this technology, it's incredible. So with that, let's go ahead and switch gears to some facility construction news right now. It's a city filled with great places, but of course now Vancouver, another great spot to see the Spencer building at the city's Harbor Center recently announced a brand new meet me room called MMR5. It's part of a large effort to renovate the building into a cutting edge connectivity hub. Unfortunately yet, no word on whether there will be great snacks in the room at this time. We will get back to you with that very important data. Because who doesn't love snacks, am I right? I mean, that's the snack room. Let's get the word out here. Over in Oklahoma City, Tonnequin's Edge X data center is undergoing some new upgrades. They're preparing the facility for new demands including AI workloads. When all is said and done, they're hoping to add up to 12 megawatts more power to their data center. And we say all the power to you. Oh, that's really good to me. Good one. All right, how can I follow up? I don't know. All right, Lynx Nova recently marked their 10 year anniversary as Northern Virginia's only multi-site IXP to celebrate the added a brand new capability guys. Here we are, Microsoft Azure Peering Service. Now all peering partners at Lynx Nova can access network solutions specifically designed for tools like Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, and Dynamics 365. Happy birthday, Lynx Nova. Happy birthday indeed. And there is a new kind of energy meter in town for data centers and energy is a big thing right now. Legrand's Starline brand unveiled the M70 critical power monitor this month. And it's set to be the new standard for data center busway power monitoring around the globe. The M70 can measure up to six current transformers at once. And I'm not talking about Optimus Prime. Friends over a 1623 front end. By the way, I don't use that word lightly. Really awesome people there. They are powering up. They recently deployed three new generators at their Omaha facility adding three megawatts of power. This was the first bit of news out of 1623 front end since naming Bill Severin as president and CEO. Congrats, Bill. We see you. Congratulations, Bill. Bill has been in leadership there since 2019 as an operating partner. So he's now at the helm making sure everything's got enough juice. He's juicing it up. So that's the last of our collaboration and innovation news for the month. All right, excellent. Now Dean, let's talk deals and big wins. Okay guys, welcome to deals and big wins. This section of our program is all about mergers, acquisitions, expansions, and projects. Go ahead, Dino. I would love to. Okay, here we go. Legrans made a big move with their acquisition of ZPE Systems, a California based IT services company specializing in remote management of network IT equipment. Adding ZPE Systems is advantageous for Legrans as ZPE service delivery for edge environments will compliment Legrans line of cabinets, PDU switches, and fiber. Interesting. Also two of the biggest names in digital infrastructure announced a new deal this past month. Guys, get ready. American Tower and IBM teaming up, y'all. American Tower set to include IBM hybrid cloud platform to all of its access edge data center ecosystem. Fake news, guys. It's also leveraging 5G and AI at the edge. AI at the edge. Jamie, I think we're gonna need to get used to hearing about AI this year. What do you think? I'm thinking that's like the topic of 2024. I agree. Yes, plus, plus. Yeah, our new future. DartPoints recently announcing their new partnership with Virtuous AI. The company makes custom AI models which DartPoints plans to use for tackling challenges in data delivery, storage, and processing. Talk about a smart move. Sounds like a smart move, Jay, but more big partnership news coming from in the form of ConnectBased joining, we love ConnectBased, by the way. ConnectBased joining forces with carbon technologies that's Q-A-R-B-O-N technologies. The new alliance will combine ConnectBased's customer network with carbon's lattice SAS orchestration software. This is hot on the heels of their previous acquisition of Master Stream, a pricing and quoting platform for telecom companies. ConnectBased cannot stay out of the news right now. No, no, awesome, awesome. All right, let's go ahead and check in on the New York Hudson Valley area, right? Where Archtop Fiber has been busy bridging the digital divide. You know, we love these stories. They've acquired three regional carriers there in the last five months, including most recently, Warwick Valley Telephone. Congratulations, guys. This new addition will be rebranded as WVT Fiber and Archtop has already begun to deploy the fiber needed to deliver high-speed internet access to their newly acquired end users. It's a great story all around. Yeah, Archtop is no joke. They are getting it done out there in the Hudson Valley. So congrats to them. Over here in the Midwest, LightEdge started the year by expanding into Minneapolis. They acquired 76,000 square feet of 3.6 megawatt. Welcome to JSA TV, where we're covering the latest stories, trends, and innovations from leaders in global connectivity, digital infrastructure, and the networks within. I'm Allison Whelan, coming to you live from Metro Connect USA 2024 in beautiful Fort Lauderdale. And joining me today is Bob Cromley, Senior Director of Carrier Sales at Precision Optical Technologies, a systems integration company focused on end-to-end networking, optical networking solutions. Good morning. Bob, thank you so much for being here for joining us. Glad to be here. So Precision OT has been making headlines most recently with OpenPath. Can you tell us a little bit about that? Yeah, definitely. So OpenPath, it's our ultimate solution for network operators on a new standard beat. It's really about operational simplicity. We deliver the converged services with residential, commercial, and wireless. It's harmoniously delivered through one single infrastructure. And we always have our rapid response teams with our rapid release features. Precision prides itself on our engineering group and our resources for sustained system integration. In addition, the product is sustainable because you can reuse existing ODMs and resources as you go. And I think we'll get to that engineering portion a little bit more in a bit. But can you tell us how OpenPath propels network operator's ability to harness the power of passive optical networking? Oh yeah, definitely. So the 10 gig symmetrical PAN system, it really revolutionizes the last mile of capability. Given the increased speeds and demands of XGS PAN, OpenPath is able to seamlessly deliver streaming, gaming, and data transfer at very high rates. So when you're in an urban area or rural area, it doesn't matter because of OpenPath and our ability to deliver the services. Wow, everybody's streaming these days, right? We're streaming right now, streaming at home. Yes, coming to live, like we said. So what trends have you noticed impacting network operators, including carriers, MSOs, cable companies, service providers? What are we seeing right now? Yeah, so it's all about the data consumption growth and reliability. And that's everything that precision prides itself on is that ability to meet those trends in addition to network reliability through not only the quality of our product, but our engineering resources. It's always, we're always looking for cutting end-to-end solutions and moving forward with that in the industry. And those engineering resources, deep rooted for you guys, you have those support systems to address these trends and support operators and overcoming network challenges. How are we working through those? Certainly, so as precision has grown through the years, not only has our footprint grown within the industry, but our reputation for increased engineering support, our advanced development teams, and this has all been brought in because of the massive strain on the networks. So data consumption and then that, as I mentioned earlier, the reliability needs. So we use our resources that way. Absolutely, and I'm sure that rapid response team comes in handy too, right? Definitely does. Well, thank you so much for joining us. It was great chatting with you. And thank you to our viewers for tuning in to JSA TV, live from Metro Connect USA 2024. Happy networking. Thank you, bye. Thanks for joining us as we broadcast from the JSA TV newsroom live to LinkedIn and YouTube. You got it, hey Dino, we are here to bring you all the latest and greatest from the world of data centers and telecoms, straight from the pages of telecom news blog, which is what you can get to if you scan over my shoulder. That's correct. I'm Dean Perrine, Executive Vice President at JSA and joining me as always is the lovely my friend, my mentor, my boss, Jamie Scato-Kataya, founder and CEO of JSA. Thank you, thank you. And yes, hello out there. Or should I say Aloha, that's for all of you guys recently returning home from PTC in Honolulu. I know you're missing the Aloha love. Well, I wasn't there this year, sadly, but our top brass, right, Dean, we sent them out. And all I hear is it was a huge, huge success with record breaking attendance. And I especially wish I could have joined that Canon rooftop party. Sounded like a total blast, beautiful pictures from there. It did sound like a blast. And Jamie, I don't know, did you see all the pictures from that? Everyone looked a little sunkiss. I was very jealous of that. I mean, everyone had that glow, that glow. I know, I couldn't make it this year, but fortunately, JSA still had it covered with our crack events team and JSA TV broadcasters. I got to watch all of those, they were awesome. So make sure that you check out the JSA TV YouTube channel for tons of interviews from PTC. We managed to catch lots of great moments and insights that you don't want to miss out on. And you know what, for me, one of those big pieces of news coming out of PTC was the announcement of PTC's new partnership with Columbia Business School Executive Education, which they got together to develop the new top talent leadership development program. So really exciting, very cool there. Yeah, absolutely, very, very, very cool. And it kicks off next year in Hawaii with 30 executive participants. And I can't wait to see how that goes. Well, we better get to the news before you change back. So ready to jump in with the first segment of today's show, my friend? Yes, let's get to into it with the Movers and Shakers from the past month. courtesy of JSA's Pass Forward, here is your Movers and Shakers news. From new hires to award wins and events in publishing news, but it is mostly hiring announcements this time around. So let's kick it off with publishing first. Light River announced a new study that's all about interoperable networking along with partner OpenZR Plus. Light River tested optical transceiver modules with a number of vendors to prove that they can easily integrate with existing infrastructure. Very, very important. So check out their new white paper to learn more about that. Well done, well done, Dean. Okay, our next mover and shaker is T5 data centers. We love those guys. They made a leadership change by adding David Miller as their new EVP of sales and marketing. So congratulations, David. He comes with plenty of experience both sales and data network and network engineering. So great fit for T5. Yeah, lots of stuff going over there at T5 and good people too, I love them. There are other new VP appointments around the industry as well with Jim Brinkzma joining Light River as their SVP of software solutions. Jim is a long time SAS expert. You could say he was sassy. He's been sassy for a while. So Light River is betting on him to lead them into continuing to innovate in the optical networking space. And we can't leave out Involta, our friends there. They also did some great hiring. They announced Gabriel Urru as their senior director of product and also big one announcing Bret Lindsay as CEO. Congratulations. Yeah, and we should say that this move coincides with some other big announcements from Involta including an expansion into Green Bay and the launch of their new secure power co-location offering. So lots happening over at Involta, definitely one to watch. Yeah, they are like the overachievers of 2024 already. Involta is number one. All right, so the next up is collaboration and innovation and here we go. Oh wait, that was you. Sorry. That's okay. That's okay. And swish, collaboration and innovation. Here we go. And now we're here to the collaboration and innovation segment where we break down new partnerships, new products, new services and new sustainability initiatives. So Jamie, take it away. Ooh, big, big fine barter set. Okay, let's go. We start off with Lantana LED who supplies lightning for data halls all over the country and they recently unveiled two new product lines designed to meet the very demanding needs of data centers. The first one called Ellucent and the second one, Neoterek. Both specifically designed with data centers in mind. And speaking of cool products, there's a new AI service being used by SaskTel, the primary telecom provider for all of Saskatchewan in Canada. It's a virtual agent for mobile customers called Lumbot created by software company Aleppo. Aleppo is very proud of Lumbot as it's highly adaptive and fine tuned for understanding language. Jamie, we are truly living in the future and I am truly thrilled that I got through that announcement with all of those words. We really are and our clients are right there on the bleeding edge of this technology, it's incredible. So with that, let's go ahead and switch gears to some facility construction news right now. It's a city filled with great places, but of course now Vancouver, another great spot to see the Spencer building at the city's Harbor Center recently announced a brand new meet me room called MMR5. It's part of a large effort to renovate the building into a cutting edge connectivity hub. Unfortunately yet, no word on whether there will be great snacks in the room at this time. We will get back to you with that very important data. Because who doesn't love snacks, am I right? I mean, that's the snack room, let's get the word out here. Over in Oklahoma City, Tonnequin's Edge X data center is undergoing some new upgrades. They're preparing the facility for new demands, including AI workloads. When all is said and done, they're hoping to add up to 12 megawatts more power to their data center. And we say all the power to you. Oh, that's a good one. Good one. All right. How can I follow up? I don't know. All right, Link Nova recently marked their 10 year anniversary as Northern Virginia's only multi-site IXP. To celebrate, they added a brand new capability guys. Here we are, Microsoft Desire Peering Service. Now, all Peering partners at Link Nova can access network solutions specifically designed for tools like Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, and Dynamics 365. Happy birthday, Link Nova. Happy birthday indeed. And there is a new kind of energy meter in town for data centers. And energy is a big thing right now. LeGrand's Starline brand unveiled the M70 critical power monitor this month. And it's set to be the new standard for data center busway power monitoring around the globe. The M70 can measure up to six current transformers at once and I'm not talking about Optimus Prime. Thanks for joining us as we broadcast from the JSA TV newsroom live to LinkedIn and YouTube. You got it. Hey, Dino, we are here to bring you all the latest and greatest from the world of data centers and telecom straight from the pages of the telecom news blog, which is what you can get to if you scan over my shoulder. That's correct. I'm Dean Perrine, executive vice president at JSA and joining me as always is the lovely my friend, my mentor, my boss, Jamie Scatochettia, founder and CEO of JSA. Thank you, thank you. And yes, hello out there. Or should I say aloha? That's for all of you guys recently returning home from PTC in Honolulu. I know you're missing the aloha love. Well, I wasn't there this year, sadly. But our top brass, right? Dean, we sent them out. And all I hear is it was a huge, huge success with record breaking attendance. And I especially wish I could have joined that Canon rooftop party. Sounded like a total blast. Beautiful pictures from there. It did sound like a blast. And Jamie, I don't know. Do you see all the pictures from that? Everyone looked a little sunkissed. I was very jealous of that. That's what they did. Everyone had that glow. I know. I couldn't make it this year. But fortunately, JSA still had it covered with our crack events team and JSA TV broadcasters. I got to watch all of those. They were awesome. So make sure that you check out the JSA TV YouTube channel for tons of interviews from PTC. We managed to catch lots of great moments and insights that you don't want to miss out on. And you know what? For me, one of those big pieces of news coming out of PTC was the announcement of PTC's new partnership with Columbia Business School Executive Education, which they got together to develop the new top talent leadership development program. So really exciting, very cool there. Yeah, absolutely. Very, very, very cool. And it kicks off next year in Hawaii with 30 executive participants. And I can't wait to see how that goes. Well, we better get to the news before you change back. So ready to jump in with the first segment of today's show, my friend? Yes. Let's get into it with the Movers and Shakers from the past month. Courtesy of JSA's Pass Forward. Here is your Movers and Shakers news. From new hires to award wins and events and publishing news. But it is mostly hiring announcements this time around. So let's kick it off with publishing first. Light River announced a new study that's all about interoperable networking. Along with partner OpenZR Plus, Light River tested optical transceiver modules with a number of vendors to prove that they can easily integrate with existing infrastructure. Very, very important. So check out their new white paper to learn more about that. Well done. Well done, Dean. OK, our next mover and shaker is T5 data centers. We love those guys. They made a leadership change by adding David Miller as their new EVP of sales and marketing. So congratulations, David. He comes with plenty of experience in both sales and data network and network engineering. So great fit for T5. Yeah, lots of stuff going on over there at T5. And good people too. I love them. There are other new VP appointments around the industry as well with Jim Brinkzma joining Light River as their SPP of software solutions. Jim is a longtime SAS expert. You could say he was sassy. He's been sassy for a while. So Light River is betting on him to lead them into continuing to innovate in the optical networking space. And we can't leave out Envolta, our friends there. They also did some great hiring. They announced Gabriel Urru as their senior director of product and also big one announcing Bret Lindsay as CEO. Congratulations. Yeah, and we should say that this move coincides with some other big announcements from Envolta, including an expansion into Green Bay and the launch of their new Secure Power co-location offering. So lots happening over at Envolta. Definitely one to watch. Yeah, they are like the overachievers of 2024 already. And it's only number one. All right, so the next up is collaboration and innovation. And here we go. Oh, wait, that was you. Sorry. That's OK. And swoosh, collaboration and innovation. Here we go. And now we're here to the collaboration and innovation segment where we break down new partnerships, new products, new services, and new sustainability initiatives. So Jamie, take it away. Big, big fine bar to set. OK, let's go. We start off with Lantana, LED, who supplies lightning for data halls all over the country. And they've recently unveiled two new product lines designed to meet the very demanding needs of data centers, the first one called Ellucent and the second one, Neoterek, both specifically designed with data centers in mind. And speaking of cool products, there's a new AI service being used by SaskTel, the primary telecom provider for all of Saskatchewan in Canada. It's a virtual agent for mobile customers called Lumbot, created by software company Aleppo. Aleppo is very proud of Lumbot as it's highly adaptive and fine tuned for understanding language. Jamie, we are truly living in the future, and I am truly thrilled that I got through that announcement with all of those words. We really are. And our clients are right there on the bleeding edge of this technology. It's incredible. So with that, let's go ahead and switch gears to some facility construction news right now. It's a city filled with great places, but of course now Vancouver, another great spot to see the Spencer building at the city's Harbor Center recently announced a brand new meet me room called MMR5. It's part of a large effort to renovate the building into a cutting edge connectivity hub. Unfortunately yet, no word on whether there will be great snacks in the room at this time. We will get back to you with that very important data. Because who doesn't love snacks? Am I right? I mean, that's the snack room. Let's get the word out here. Over in Oklahoma City, Toniquin's EdgeX Data Center is undergoing some new upgrades. They're preparing the facility for new demands, including AI workloads. When all is said and done, they're hoping to add up to 12 megawatts more power to their data center. And we say all the power to you. Oh, that's really good to me. Good one. All right. How can I follow up? I don't know. All right, Lynx Nova recently marked their 10-year anniversary as Northern Virginia's only multi-site IXP to celebrate the added a brand new capability. Guys, here we are. Microsoft Deser Peering Service. Now all peering partners at Lynx Nova can access network solutions specifically designed for tools like Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, and Dynamics 365. Happy birthday, Lynx Nova. Happy birthday, indeed. And there is a new kind of energy meter in town for data centers. And energy is a big thing right now. LeGrand's Starline brand unveiled the M70 Critical Power Monitor this month. And it's set to be the new standard for data center busway power monitoring around the globe. The M70 can measure up to six current transformers at once. And I'm not talking about Optimus Prime. Friends over a 1623 pharnum. By the way, I don't use that word lightly. Really awesome people there. They are powering up. They recently deployed three new generators at their Omaha facility, adding three megawatts of power. This was the first bit of news out of 1623 pharnum since naming Bill Severin as president and CEO. Congrats, Bill. We see you. Congratulations, Bill. Bill has been in leadership there since 2019 as an operating partner. So he's now at the helm, making sure everything's got enough juice. He's juicing it up. So that's the last of our collaboration and innovation news for the month. All right, excellent. Now, Dean, let's talk deals and big wins. OK, guys, welcome to Deals and Big Rins. This section of our program is all about mergers, acquisitions, expansions, and projects. Go ahead, Dino. I would love to. OK, here we go. Legrans made a big move with their acquisition of ZPE Systems, a California-based IT services company specializing in remote management of network IT equipment. Adding ZPE Systems is advantageous for Legran as ZPE service delivery for edge environments will complement Legran's line of cabinets, PDU switches, and fiber. Interesting. Also, two of the biggest names in digital infrastructure announced a new deal this past month. Guys, get ready. American Tower and IBM teaming up, y'all. American Tower set to include IBM hybrid cloud platform to all of its access edge data center ecosystem. Big news, guys. It's also leveraging 5G and AI at the edge. AI at the edge. Jamie, I think we're going to need to get used to hearing about AI this year. What do you think? I'm thinking that's like the topic of 2024. I agree. Less, less, less. Yeah, our new future. Thanks for joining us as we broadcast from the JSA TV newsroom, live to LinkedIn and YouTube. You got it. Hey, Dino, we are here to bring you all the latest and greatest from the world of data centers and telecoms, straight from the pages of the telecom news blog, which is what you can get to if you scan over my shoulder. That's correct. I'm Dean Perrine, executive vice president at JSA. And joining me, as always, is the lovely my friend, my mentor, my boss, Jamie Scatochitia, founder and CEO of JSA. Thank you. Thank you. And yes, hello out there. Or should I say Aloha, that's for all of you guys recently returning home from PTC in Honolulu. I know you're missing the Aloha love. Well, I wasn't there this year, sadly. But our top brass, right? Dean, we sent them out. And all I hear is it was a huge, huge success with record-breaking attendance. And I especially wish I could have joined that Canon Rooftop party. Sounded like a total blast. Beautiful pictures from there. It did sound like a blast. And Jamie, I don't know. Do you see all the pictures from that? Everyone looked a little sunkissed. I was very jealous of that. That's what they did. Everyone had that glow. I know. I couldn't make it this year. But fortunately, JSA still had it covered with our crack events team and JSA TV broadcasters. I got to watch all of those. They were awesome. So make sure that you check out the JSA TV YouTube channel for tons of interviews from PTC. We managed to catch lots of great moments and insights that you don't want to miss out on. And you know what? For me, one of those big pieces of news coming out of PTC was the announcement of PTC's new partnership with Columbia Business School Executive Education, which they got together to develop the new top talent leadership development program. So really exciting, very cool there. Yeah, absolutely. Very, very, very cool. And it kicks off next year in Hawaii with 30 executive participants. And I can't wait to see how that goes. Well, we better get to the news before you change back. So ready to jump in with the first segment of today's show, my friend? Yes. Let's get into it with the Movers and Shakers from the past month. courtesy of JSA's Fast Forward. Here is your Movers and Shakers news. From new hires to award wins and events and publishing news. But it is mostly hiring announcements this time around. So let's kick it off with publishing first. Light River announced a new study that's all about interoperable networking. Along with partner OpenZR Plus, Light River tested optical transceiver modules with a number of vendors to prove that they can easily integrate with existing infrastructure. Very, very important. So check out their new white paper to learn more about that. Well done, well done, Dean. Okay, our next mover and shaker is T5 data centers. We love those guys. They made a leadership change by adding David Miller as their new EVP of sales and marketing. So congratulations, David. He comes with plenty of experience in both sales and data network and network engineering. So great fit for T5. Yeah, lots of stuff going on over there at T5 and good people too, I love them. There are other new VP appointments around the industry as well with Jim Brinkzma joining Light River as their SVP of software solutions. Jim is a longtime SAS expert. You could say he was Sassy. He's been Sassy for a while. So Light River is betting on him to lead them into continuing to innovate in the optical networking space. And we can't leave out Envolta, our friends there. They also did some great hiring. They announced Gabriel Uru as their senior director of product and also big one announcing Bret Lindsay as CEO. Congratulations. Yeah, and we should say that this move coincides with some other big announcements from Envolta, including an expansion into Green Bay and the launch of their new secure power co-location offering. So lots happening over at Envolta, definitely one to watch. Yeah, they are like the overachievers of 2024 already. And Envolta is number one. All right, so the next up is collaboration and innovation. And here we go. Oh, wait, that was you. Sorry. That's okay. And switch, collaboration and innovation. Here we go. And now we're here to the collaboration and innovation segment where we break down new partnerships, new products, new services and new sustainability initiatives. So Jamie, take it away. Ooh, big, big fine barter step. Okay, let's go. We start off with Lantana, LED, who supplies lightning for data halls all over the country. And they recently unveiled two new product lines designed to meet the very demanding needs of data centers. The first one called Ellucent and the second one, Neoterek. Both specifically designed with data centers in mind. And speaking of cool products, there's a new AI service being used by SaskTel, the primary telecom provider for all of Saskatchewan in Canada. It's a virtual agent for mobile customers called Lombot created by software company Aleppo. Aleppo is very proud of Lombot as it's highly adaptive and fine tuned for understanding language. Jamie, we are truly living in the future and I am truly thrilled that I got through that announcement with all of those words. We really are and our clients are right there on the bleeding edge of this technology. It's incredible. So with that, let's go ahead and switch gears to some facility construction news right now. It's a city filled with great places, but of course now Vancouver, another great spot to see the Spencer building at the city's Harbor Center recently announced a brand new meet me room called MMR5. It's part of a large effort to renovate the building into a cutting edge connectivity hub. Unfortunately yet no word on whether there will be great snacks in the room at this time. We will get back to you with that very important data. Because who doesn't love snacks? Am I right? I mean, that's the snack room. Let's get the word out here. Over in Oklahoma City, Tonnequin's Edge X data center is undergoing some new upgrades. They're preparing the facility for new demands, including AI workloads. When all is said and done, they're hoping to add up to 12 megawatts more power to their data center. And we say all the power to you. Oh, that's good to me. Good one. All right. How can I follow up? I don't know. All right. Link Nova recently marked their 10 year anniversary as Northern Virginia's only multi-site IXP to celebrate the added a brand new capability guys. Here we are. Microsoft Desire Peering Service. Now all peering partners at Link Nova can access network solutions specifically designed for tools like Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams and Dynamics 365. Happy birthday, Link Nova. Happy birthday indeed. And there is a new kind of energy meter in town for data centers. And energy is a big thing right now. Legrand's Starline brand unveiled the M70 Critical Power Monitor this month. And it's set to be the new standard for data center busway power monitoring around the globe. The M70 can measure up to six current transformers at once. And I'm not talking about Optimus Prime. Thanks for joining us as we broadcast from the JSA TV newsroom live to LinkedIn and YouTube. You got it. Hey, Dino. We are here to bring you all the latest and greatest from the world of data centers and telecom straight from the pages of telecom news blog which is what you can get to if you scan over my shoulder. That's correct. I'm Dean Perrine, executive vice president at JSA and joining me as always is the lovely my friend my mentor, my boss, Jamie Skadokataya, founder and CEO of JSA. Thank you, thank you. And yes, hello out there. Or should I say Aloha? That's for all of you guys recently returning home from PTC in Honolulu. I know you're missing the Aloha love. Well, I wasn't there this year, sadly, but our top brass, right? Dean, we sent them out. And all I hear is it was a huge, huge success with record breaking attendance. And I especially wish I could have joined that Canon rooftop party. It sounded like a total blast. Beautiful pictures from there. It did sound like a blast. And Jamie, I don't know, do you see all the pictures from that? Everyone looked a little sunkissed. I was very jealous of that. That's what we're doing. We did. Everyone had that glow, that glow. No, no, I couldn't make it this year but fortunately, JSA still had it covered with our crack events team and JSA TV broadcasters. I got to watch all of those. They were awesome. So make sure that you check out the JSA TV YouTube channel for tons of interviews from PTC. We managed to catch lots of great moments and insights that you don't wanna miss out on. And you know what? For me, one of those big pieces of news coming out of PTC was the announcement of PTC's new partnership with Columbia Business School Executive Education which they got together to develop the new top talent leadership development program. So really exciting, very cool there. Yeah, absolutely. Very, very, very cool. It kicks off next year in Hawaii with 30 executive participants and I can't wait to see how that goes. Well, we better get to the news before you change back. So ready to jump in with the first segment of today's show, my friend? Yes, let's get into it with the Movers and Shakers from the past month. Courtesy of JSA's Fast Forward. Here is your Movers and Shakers news. From new hires to award wins and events and publishing news but it is mostly hiring announcements this time around. So let's kick it off with publishing first. Light River announced a new study that's all about interoperable networking along with partner OpenZR Plus. Light River tested optical transceiver modules with a number of vendors to prove that they can easily integrate with existing infrastructure. Very, very important. So check out their new white paper to learn more about that. Well done, well done, Dean. Okay, our next mover and shaker is T5 data centers. We love those guys. They made a leadership change by adding David Mellor as their new EVP of sales and marketing. So congratulations, David. He comes with plenty of experience in both sales and data network and network engineering. So great fit for T5. Yeah, lots of stuff going on over there at T5 and good people too, I love them. There are other new VP appointments around the industry as well with Jim Brinkzma joining Light River as their SVP of software solutions. Jim is a long time SaaS expert. You could say he was sassy. He's been sassy for a while. So Light River is betting on him to lead them into continuing to innovate in the optical networking space. And we can't leave out Invota, our friends there. They also did some great hiring. They announced Gabriel Urru as their senior director of product and also big one announcing Bret Lindsay as CEO. Congratulations. Yeah, and we should say that this move coincides with some other big announcements from Invota, including an expansion into Green Bay and the launch of their new secure power co-location offering. So lots happening over at Invota. Definitely one to watch. Yeah, they are like the overachievers of 2024 already. And it's only number one. All right, so the next up is collaboration and innovation and here we go. Oh, wait, that was you, sorry. That's okay. And swoosh, collaboration and innovation. Here we go. And now we're here to the collaboration and innovation segment where we break down new partnerships, new products, new services and new sustainability initiatives. So Jamie, take it away. Ooh, big, big, high bar just that. Okay, let's go. We start off with Lantana, LED, who supplies lightning for data halls all over the country and they recently unveiled two new product lines designed to meet the very demanding needs of data centers. The first one called Ellucent and the second one, Neoterek. Both specifically designed with data centers in mind. And speaking of cool products, there's a new AI service being used by SaskTel, the primary telecom provider for all of Saskatchewan in Canada. It's a virtual agent for mobile customers called Lombot created by software company Aleppo. Aleppo is very proud of Lombot as it's highly adaptive and fine tuned for understanding language. Jamie, we are truly living in the future and I am truly thrilled that I got through that announcement with all of those words. We really are and our clients are right there on the bleeding edge of this technology. It's incredible. So with that, let's go ahead and switch gears to some facility construction news right now. It's a city filled with great places, but of course now Vancouver, another great spot to see the Spencer building at the city's Harbor Center recently announced a brand new meet me room called MMR5. It's part of a large effort to renovate the building into a cutting edge connectivity hub. Unfortunately yet no word on whether there will be great snacks in the room at this time. We will get back to you with that very important data. Because who doesn't love snacks? Am I right? I mean, that's the snack room. Let's get the word out here. Over in Oklahoma City, Toniquin's Edge X data center is undergoing some new upgrades. They're preparing the facility for new demands, including AI workloads. When all is said and done, they're hoping to add up to 12 megawatts more power to their data center. And we say all the power to you. Oh, that's a good one. All right. How can I follow up? I don't know. All right. Lynx Nova recently marked their 10 year anniversary as Northern Virginia's only multi-site IXP to celebrate the added a brand new capability guys. Here we are. Microsoft Desire Peering Service. Now all peering partners at Lynx Nova can access network solutions specifically designed for tools like Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, and Dynamics 365. Happy birthday, Lynx Nova. Happy birthday indeed. And there is a new kind of energy meter in town for data centers and energy is a big thing right now. Legrand's Starline brand unveiled the M70 critical power monitor this month. And it's set to be the new standard for data center busway power monitoring around the globe. The M70 can measure up to six current transformers at once. And I'm not talking about Optimus Prime. Our friends over at 1623 Farnum, by the way, I don't use that word lightly. Really awesome people there. They are powering up. They recently deployed three new generation, three new generators at their Omaha facility adding three megawatts of power. This was the first bit of news out of 1623 Farnum since naming Bill Severin as president and CEO. Congrats, Bill. We see you. Congratulations, Bill. Bill has been in leadership there since 2019 as an operating partner. So he's now at the helm making sure everything's got enough juice. He's juicing it up. So that's the last of our collaboration and innovation news for the month. All right, excellent. Now Dean, let's talk deals and big wins. Okay guys, welcome to deals and big wins. This section of our program is all about mergers, acquisitions, expansions, and projects. Go ahead, Dino. I would love to. Okay, here we go. Legrand's made a big move with their acquisition of ZPE Systems, a California-based IT services company specializing in remote management of network IT equipment. Adding ZPE Systems is advantageous for Legrand as ZPE Service Delivery for Edge Environments will compliment Legrand's line of cabinets, PDU switches and fiber. Interesting. Also, two of the biggest names in digital infrastructure announced a new deal this past month, guys. Get ready, American Tower and IBM teaming up, y'all. American Tower set to include IBM hybrid cloud platform to all of its access Edge data center ecosystem. Big news, guys. It's also leveraging 5G and AI at the edge. AI at the edge. Jamie, I think we're gonna need to get used to hearing about AI this year. What do you think? I'm thinking that's like the topic of 2024. I agree. Yes, plus, plus. Yeah, our new future. Thanks for joining us as we broadcast from the JSA TV newsroom live to LinkedIn and YouTube. You got it, hey, Dino. We are here to bring you all the latest and greatest from the world of data centers and telecoms, straight from the pages of telecom news blog, which is what you can get to if you scan over my shoulder. That's correct. I'm Dean Perrine, Executive Vice President at JSA and joining me, as always, is the lovely my friend, my mentor, my boss, Jamie Skadokataya, founder and CEO of JSA. Thank you, thank you. And yes, hello out there. Or should I say Aloha, that's for all of you guys recently returning home from PTC in Honolulu. I know you're missing the Aloha love. Well, I wasn't there this year, sadly, but our top brass, right? Dean, we sent them out and all here is, it was a huge, huge success with record-breaking attendance and I especially wish I could have joined that Canon rooftop party. It sounded like a total blast. Beautiful pictures from there. It did sound like a blast and Jamie, I don't know, did you see all the pictures from that? Everyone looked a little sunkissed. I was very jealous of that, that's for sure. They did. Everyone had that glow, that glow. No, no, I couldn't make it this year, but fortunately, JSA still had it covered with our crack events team and JSA TV broadcasters. I got to watch all of those, they were awesome. So make sure that you check out the JSA TV YouTube channel for tons of interviews from PTC. We managed to catch lots of great moments and insights that you don't wanna miss out on. And you know what? For me, one of those big pieces of news coming out of PTC was the announcement of PTC's new partnership with Columbia Business School Executive Education, which they got together to develop the new top talent leadership development program. So really exciting, very cool there. Yeah, absolutely, very, very, very cool. And it kicks off next year in Hawaii with 30 executive participants. And I can't wait to see how that goes. Well, we better get to the news before you change back. So ready to jump in with the first segment of today's show, my friend? Yes, let's get into it with the Movers and Shakers from the past month. The courtesy of JSA's Fast Forward, here is your Movers and Shakers news. From new hires to award wins and events and publishing news, but it is mostly hiring announcements this time around. So let's kick it off with publishing first. Light River announced a new study that's all about interoperable networking. Along with partner OpenZR Plus, Light River tested optical transceiver modules with a number of vendors to prove that they can easily integrate with existing infrastructure. Very, very important. So check out their new white paper to learn more about that. Well done, well done, Dean. Okay, our next mover and shaker is T5 data centers. We love those guys. They made a leadership change by adding David Miller as their new EVP of sales and marketing. So congratulations, David. He comes with plenty of experience in both sales and data network and network engineering. So great fit for T5. Yeah, lots of stuff going on over there at T5 and good people too, I love them. There are other new VP appointments around the industry as well with Jim Brinkzma joining Light River as their SVP of software solutions. Jim is a longtime SAS expert. You could say he was sassy. He's been sassy for a while. So Light River is betting on him to lead them into continuing to innovate in the optical networking space. And we can't leave out Involta, our friends there. They also did some great hiring. They announced Gabriel Urru as their senior director of product and also big one announcing Bret Lindsay as CEO. Congratulations. Yeah, and we should say that this move coincides with some other big announcements from Involta including an expansion into Green Bay and the launch of their new secure power co-location offering. So lots happening over at Involta. Definitely one to watch. Yeah, they are like the overachievers of 2024 already. Involta is number one. All right, so the next up is collaboration and innovation. And here we go. Oh wait, that was you. Sorry. That's okay. And swish, collaboration and innovation. Here we go. And now we're here into the collaboration and innovation segment where we break down new partnerships, new products, new services and new sustainability initiatives. So Jamie, take it away. Ooh, big, big, fine barter set. Okay, let's go. We start off with Lantana LED who supplies lightning for data halls all over the country and they recently unveiled two new product lines designed to meet the very demanding needs of data centers. The first one called Ellucent and the second one Neoterek. Both specifically designed with data centers in mind. And speaking of cool products, there's a new AI service being used by SaskTel, the primary telecom provider for all of Saskatchewan in Canada. It's a virtual agent for mobile customers called Lumbot created by software company Aleppo. Aleppo is very proud of Lumbot as it's highly adaptive and fine tune for understanding language. Jamie, we are truly living in the future and I am truly thrilled that I got through that announcement with all of those words. We really are and our clients are right there on the bleeding edge of this technology, it's incredible. So with that, let's go ahead and switch gears to some facility construction news right now. It's a city filled with great places but of course now Vancouver another great spot to see the Spencer building at the city's Harbor Center recently announced a brand new meet me room called MMR5. It's part of a large effort to renovate the building into a cutting edge connectivity hub. Unfortunately yet, no word on whether there will be great snacks in the room at this time. We will get back to you with that very important data. Because who doesn't love snacks, am I right? Over here. Let's get the word out here. Over in Oklahoma City, Tonnequin's Edge X data center is undergoing some new upgrades. They're preparing the facility for new demands including AI workloads. When all is said and done, they're hoping to add up to 12 megawatts more power to their data center. And we say all the power to you. Oh, that's a good one, all right. How can I follow up? I don't know, all right. Link Nova recently marked their 10 year anniversary as Northern Virginia's only multi-site IXP to celebrate the added a brand new capability guys. Here we are, Microsoft Azure Peering Service. Now all peering partners at Link Nova can access network solutions specifically designed for tools like Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, and Dynamics 365. Happy birthday, Link Nova. Happy birthday indeed. And there is a new kind of energy meter in town for. Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts where we're covering the latest stories, trends, and innovations from leaders in global connectivity, digital infrastructure, and the networks within. I am here today with Millid Shah. He is the Chief Technology Officer of IT Savvy. They are the parent company of Inok, and Inok provides global 24-7 managed network operation center, support, and consulting. Millid, thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. And so this week here, we know that IT Savvy and Inok are breaking news here at Metro Connect, so we're excited to talk about that. You're launching the company's Ops 3.0 platform. Can you tell us a little bit about Inok Solutions and then also that newest offering? Yeah, so thank you for having me. And Inok Solutions has been around for 24 years. We've been providing managed Inok Solutions and consulting services for all that time. We've had iterations of this platform over the last 24 years. Ops 1.0 that was released in 2010, which was very similar to most of the offerings that you see in the market today, where it's really a human-driven process, where it's really a ratio between the number of technology devices we manage to a human correlation to it, to how many people you actually have to support it. We evolved into Ops 2.0 in 2018, and that was an evolution to kind of take the human interaction part out of it and really kind of have leverage AI, leverage machine learning, and really kind of develop models that allowed us to detect issues at a mass pace. It gave us scale, it gave us the ability to manage millions of devices, millions of alarms, and bring it down to a single issue that somebody could work on. Ops 3.0 is the next generation where we've been doing AI and machine learning for the last eight, nine years. We're now looking to use this to actually resolve issues and communicate with our clients proactively. So one of the biggest concerns and issues we were having with the last product was, great, we can detect these issues really, really fast, but how well can we communicate with our clients what the issue is, what the expected time to resolve the issue is, and can we even resolve these issues automatically? So Ops 3.0 was really that innovation that we just came up with today. Excellent, that's great. Thank you for telling us about that. Very exciting. And now let's dig in a little bit more about that. Can you tell me about what this does in terms of the few of the most important considerations for CSPs, so automation and integration, scalability, security? Yeah, I mean, all of those things have one thing that can all lose all those pieces together, and which is, it's really about interoperability. In the world that we live in today, there's millions of different types of products, millions of different types of solutions, but there's very few platforms that can manage them all in the same way, shape, and form. And that's really what IT, Savvy, and Inok have been focused on is really this Ops 3.0 platform. It's an AI Ops engine. And one of the biggest things that I will tell our client base and providers out there today is, AI is not yet mature enough for a lot of other providers, but we've been in that space for 12 years. And it's very much a solution where it's about time to market and amount of time in the market. We've been working on it for so long that has given us a speed to market in sense that we've been developing these models for 12 years, now with the onset of Gen AI and things like that, we're able to leverage those things at a mass scale and kind of go to market with new products and solutions much quickly. So really feedback for the CSPs and the providers out there, leverage providers like Inok that have already built this skill set over the last 12 years rather than try to reinvent the wheel themselves. Absolutely. In Gen AI, everybody's talking about it. So you are in a great position at this point with a lot of people that are probably gonna wanna talk to you after this interview. And finally, I want to know a little bit more about that AI piece. So can you tell us a little bit more? You said now it's been several years, 12 years you've been in that space. So yeah, what's new there? Yeah, I mean, AI has been around for a long time and there's a lot of different types of AI technologies. Obviously the most recent one that's become very popular is generative AI. It is hitting the consumer market. Kids are using chat GPT. Everybody knows what it can do for you. It's another thing to actually apply it in the enterprise space, to actually use it in a secure manner and truly drive value and outcomes out of it. We are already working on Ops 4.0. Our most recent development there is we're actually using some of the generative AI capabilities and we're training this chat bot. It's a, we call it conversational AI and it's essentially learned 24 years of our knowledge base that we've been in the industry of and can actually interact with humans and can resolve problems. So much so that we've actually solved 30% of our tickets by having no humans interact with it. Wow. Right, so it's been a really exciting time and we just know that that number is gonna get higher and higher and higher. Yeah, that's very exciting. Well, thank you for sharing that with us and thank you for being here today on JSA TV and thank you to our viewers watching. We are live here from Metro Connect 2024 and happy networking. Awesome, thank you for having us. Thanks for joining us as we broadcast from the JSA TV newsroom live to LinkedIn and YouTube. You got it. Hey Dino, we are here to bring you all the latest and greatest from the world of data centers and telecom straight from the pages of telecom news blog which is what you can get to if you scan over my shoulder. That's correct. I'm Dean Perine, Executive Vice President at JSA and joining me as always is the lovely my friend, my mentor, my boss, Jamie Scatochettia, founder and CEO of JSA. Thank you, thank you. And yes, hello out there or should I say Aloha that's for all of you guys recently returning home from PTC in Honolulu. I know you're missing the Aloha love. Well, I wasn't there this year sadly, but our top brass, right, Dean, we sent them out and all I hear is it was a huge, huge success with record breaking attendance. And I especially wish I could have joined that Canon rooftop party. Sounded like a total blast, beautiful pictures from there. It did sound like a blast and Jamie, I don't know, did you see all the pictures from that? Everyone looked a little sunkissed. I was very jealous of that. Everyone had that glow. I know, I couldn't make it this year, but fortunately JSA still had it covered with our crack events team and JSA TV broadcasters. I got to watch all of those, they were awesome. So make sure that you check out the JSA TV YouTube channel for tons of interviews from PTC. We managed to catch lots of great moments and insights that you don't wanna miss out on. And you know what, for me, one of those big pieces of news coming out of PTC was the announcement of PTC's new partnership with Columbia Business School Executive Education, which they got together to develop the new top talent leadership development program. So really exciting, very cool there. Yeah, absolutely very, very, very cool. And it kicks off next year in Hawaii with 30 executive participants. And I can't wait to see how that goes. Well, we better get to the news before you change back. So ready to jump in with the first segment of today's show, my friend? Yes, let's get too into it with the Movers and Shakers from the past month. courtesy of JSA's Fast Forward, here is your Movers and Shakers news. From new hires to award wins and events and publishing news, but it is mostly hiring announcements this time around. So let's kick it off with publishing first. Light River announced a new study that's all about interoperable networking along with partner OpenZR Plus. Light River tested optical transceiver modules with a number of vendors to prove that they can easily integrate with existing infrastructure, very, very important. So check out their new white paper to learn more about that. Well done, well done, Dean. Okay, our next mover and shaker is T5 data centers, we love those guys. They made a leadership change by adding David Miller as their new EVP of sales and marketing. So congratulations, David. He comes with plenty of experience in both sales and data network and network engineering. So great fit for T5. Yeah, lots of stuff going on over there at T5 and good people too, I love them. There are other new VP appointments around the industry as well with Jim Brinkzma joining Light River as their SVP of software solutions. Jim is a longtime SaaS expert. You could say he was sassy. He's been sassy for a while. So Light River is betting on him to lead them into continuing to innovate in the optical networking space. And we can't leave out Involta, our friends there. They also did some great hiring. They announced Gabriel Urru as their senior director of product and also big one announcing Bret Lindsay as CEO. Congratulations. Yeah, and we should say that this move coincides with some other big announcements from Involta including an expansion into Green Bay and the launch of their new secure power co-location offering. So lots happening over at Involta, definitely one to watch. Yeah, they are like the overachievers of 2024 already. And it's only number one. All right, so the next up is collaboration and innovation. And here we go. Oh, wait, that was you. Sorry. That's okay. That's okay. And swish, collaboration and innovation. Here we go. And now we're here to the collaboration and innovation segment where we break down new partnerships, new products, new services and new sustainability initiatives. So Jamie, take it away. Ooh, big, big fine barter set. Okay, let's go. We start off with Lantana LED who supplies lightning for data halls all over the country and they recently unveiled two new product lines designed to meet the very demanding needs of data centers. The first one called Ellucent and the second one, Neoteric. Both specifically designed with data centers in mind. And speaking of cool products, there's a new AI service being used by SaskTel, the primary telecom provider for all of Saskatchewan in Canada. It's a virtual agent for mobile customers called Lumbot created by software company Aleppo. Aleppo is very proud of Lumbot as it's highly adaptive and fine tuned for understanding language. Jamie, we are truly living in the future and I am truly thrilled that I got through that announcement with all of those words. We really are and our clients are right there on the bleeding edge of this technology. It's incredible. So with that, let's go ahead and switch gears to some facility construction news right now. It's a city filled with great places but of course now Vancouver, another great spot to see the Spencer building at the city's Harbor Center recently announced a brand new meet me room called MMR5. It's part of a large effort to renovate the building into a cutting edge connectivity hub. Unfortunately yet, no word on whether there will be great snacks in the room at this time. We will get back to you with that very important data. Because who doesn't love snacks? Am I right? I mean, snacks in the snack room. Let's get the word out here. Over in Oklahoma City, Tana Quinn's Edge X data center is undergoing some new upgrades. They're preparing the facility for new demands, including AI workloads. When all is said and done, they're hoping to add up to 12 megawatts more power to their data center. And we say all the power to you. Oh, that's a good one. All right, how can I follow up? I don't know. All right, Link Nova recently marked their 10 year anniversary as Northern Virginia's only multi-site IXP. To celebrate, they added a brand new capability guys. Here we are, Microsoft Desire Peering Service. Now all peering partners at Link Nova can access network solutions specifically designed for tools like Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, and Dynamics 365. Happy birthday, Link Nova. Happy birthday indeed. And there is a new kind of energy meter in town for data centers. And energy is a big thing right now. Lagrange's Starline brand unveiled the M70 critical power monitor this month. And it's set to be the new standard for data center busway power monitoring around the globe. The M70 can measure up to six current transformers at once. And I'm not talking about Optimus Prime. Thanks for joining us as we broadcast from the JSA TV newsroom live to LinkedIn and YouTube. You got it. Hey, Dino, we are here to bring you all the latest and greatest from the world of data centers and telecom straight from the pages of the telecom news blog, which is what you can get to if you scan over my shoulder. That's correct. I'm Dean Perrine, Executive Vice President at JSA. And joining me, as always, is the lovely my friend, my mentor, my boss, Jamie Scatochettia, founder and CEO of JSA. Thank you, thank you. And yes, hello out there. Or should I say aloha? That's for all of you guys recently returning home from PTC in Honolulu. I know you're missing the aloha love. Well, I wasn't there this year, sadly. But our top brass, right? Dean, we sent them out. And all I hear is it was a huge, huge success with record breaking attendance. And I especially wish I could have joined that Canaan Rooftop party. Sounded like a total blast. Beautiful pictures from there. It did sound like a blast. And Jamie, I don't know. Do you see all the pictures from that? Everyone looked a little sunkissed. I was very jealous of that. That's what you were doing. Everyone had that glow, that glow. No, no, I couldn't make it this year. But fortunately, JSA still had it covered with our crack events team and JSA TV broadcasters. I got to watch all of those. They were awesome. So make sure that you check out the JSA TV YouTube channel for tons of interviews from PTC. We managed to catch lots of great moments and insights that you don't want to miss out on. And you know what? For me, one of those big pieces of news coming out of PTC was the announcement of PTC's new partnership with Columbia Business School Executive Education, which they got together to develop the new top talent leadership development program. So really exciting, very cool there. Yeah, absolutely. Very, very, very cool. And it kicks off next year in Hawaii with 30 executive participants. And I can't wait to see how that goes. Well, we better get to the news before you change back. So ready to jump in with the first segment of today's show, my friend? Yes, let's get into it with the Movers and Shakers from the past month. Courtesy of JSA's Fast Forward. Here is your Movers and Shakers news. From new hires to award wins and events and publishing news. But it is mostly hiring announcements this time around. So let's kick it off with publishing first. Light River announced a new study that's all about interoperable networking. Along with partner OpenZR Plus, Light River tested optical transceiver modules with a number of vendors to prove that they can easily integrate with existing infrastructure. Very, very important. So check out their new white paper to learn more about that. Well done, well done, Dean. Okay, our next mover and shaker is T5 data centers. We love those guys. They made a leadership change by adding David Mellor as their new EVP of sales and marketing. So congratulations, David. He comes with plenty of experience in both sales and data network and network engineering. So great fit for T5. Yeah, lots of stuff going on over there at T5 and good people too, I love them. There are other new VP appointments around the industry as well with Jim Brinkzma joining Light River as their SVP of software solutions. Jim is a long time SaaS expert. You could say he was sassy. He's been sassy for a while. So Light River is betting on him to lead them into continuing to innovate in the optical networking space. And we can't leave out Invota, our friends there. They also did some great hiring. They announced Gabriel Urru as their senior director of product. And also big one announcing Bret Lindsay as CEO. Congratulations. Yeah, and we should say that this move coincides with some other big announcements from Invota, including an expansion into Green Bay and the launch of their new secure power co-location offering. So lots happening over at Invota. Definitely one to watch. Yeah, they are like the overachievers of 2024 already. And it's only number one. All right, so the next up is collaboration and innovation. Welcome to JSA TV, where we're covering the latest stories, trends and innovations from leaders in global connectivity, digital infrastructure and the networks within. I'm Emily Scherer for JSA and I am joined here today by Josh Snowhorn. He is the CEO of Quantum Loophole. They are a data center developer specializing in power connectivity and water challenges for new data center builds. So Josh, thank you for being here today. My pleasure. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. So for our viewers who are unfamiliar with Quantum Loophole, what should they know about you and your offerings? So we have the largest master plan data center community in the world. It's actually 2164 acres, about three and a half square miles in scale. We're located 20 miles north of Equinix Ashburn. It's the biggest data center campus in the world. Most amount of power ever delivered, two and a half gigawatts. So it's actually the single biggest power site for any industry in North America, the single biggest location. And we built a fiber ring that links our campus between Ashburn and our site. It's like an old 235,000 strands of fiber and that as well is the biggest fiber ring ever constructed. Wow, that's amazing. And Ashburn's such a big market, a lot going on right there with power right now. So a big conversation. They have no power and we have it. Yeah, exactly. It's a good situation. Okay, perfect, perfect. One of the major challenges is power, like we just said. So what are some of the construction trends that you're seeing in regard to power supply and power density? And what are the challenges facing new data centers in that regard? In general, everybody has a shortage of power right now. It starts out with transmission. If you can't get core transmission delivered to a site, to even distribute it and step it down to all of your customers and you've got a problem. In our case, we have 2,500 megawatts of power, which is enough to power a major city of like a million people. I mean, it's really crazy scale. But we were lucky in that our site is a former Alcoa aluminum smelter. So smelting takes a massive amount of electricity. The transmission scale power lines were already there. We're just tapping in and taking advantage of that. So the challenges really get to, once you get beyond the grid and get to peak grid, how are you actually gonna be able to power it later on? Is it gonna be batteries and solar and wind? Well, that's not what we call firm power. It's not 24 seven. So it's gonna take things like maybe creative hydrogen or natural gas turbines, renewable natural gas and God help us nuclear, which everybody's talking about a lot. So we can see that happening as well. Maybe in your backyard, we'll put a reactor. It'll be nice for you. Yeah, hopefully not. I don't think so. Okay, and let's see. Later today, you're gonna be speaking on a panel. So tell us a little bit about that session and what attendees can expect to learn. It's gonna be a little bit testy. It's gonna be talking about power and the future of it and where it's gonna have to go to be able to scale up to need, have a request. I'll give you an example. The state of Georgia in a hundred years had 15 gigawatts, 15,000 megawatts of power for the whole state. It took a hundred years to get there. They have 27 gigawatts of requests now for the next like four years. There's some possible fulfill. So that's the kind of problems we're gonna talk about. Just the scale problem with all the coal shutting down everywhere. How are we gonna take that up with new renewables or carbon-free power, which is nuclear. So we'll see where that goes. But that's all a decade away too. So it'll be a while. That sounds exciting. What time is that panel taking place today? Two something in the afternoon. Somebody will tell me to go and I'll go. Two something, look on your schedules, try to catch it. That sounds like a good one. That's exciting. And let's see here. I think I skipped something. We wanted to talk a little bit more about that master plan data center development that you had mentioned earlier. And that can be deployed at a gigawatt scale. How does that work? And how does it solve some of the power challenges that you were just mentioning? So we're actually multi gigawatt. But what it does, if you take a campus like ours, so we're over 2,000 acres, we actually are putting 600 acres into green space and conservation, which you would never see normally. Everybody usually builds every little inch of that. So think about it like a master plan housing community. It's really the best way to describe that. We parcelize the land and make tick all the ideal parcels for data centers, sell that to clients to develop their own data centers. And we put in all the underground, not fancy stuff, the poo water, the sewage, the potable water, the all the underground fiber, everything else. We get it all in place. So when they want to put in their data center, it's sort of an easy button. And we also pre-build the giant gigawatt scale substations to actually get the electricity to the site. So by solving all of that, it's sort of rapid deployment for the hyperscale industry to be able to deploy their infrastructures they need it. Excellent, great. Thanks for letting us know a little bit more about that. You're welcome. And for anybody who wants to know more about Quantum Loophole, where can they go to learn more? Quantumloophole.com or just reach out to me. I'm happy to answer any questions. That's an easy one. Okay, great. We'll keep an eye out for Josh. A lot of great info here about power and data centers. Thank you for joining us on JSA TV. My pleasure. Thank you for having me. To our viewers, happy networking. Thanks for joining us as we broadcast from the JSA TV newsroom live to LinkedIn and YouTube. You got it. We are here to bring you all the latest and greatest from the world of data centers and telecom, straight from the pages of telecom news blog, which is what you can get to if you scan over my shoulder. That's correct. I'm Dean Perrine, Executive Vice President at JSA and joining me as always is the lovely my friend, my mentor, my boss, Jamie Scatochettia, founder and CEO of JSA. Thank you. And yes, hello out there. Or should I say Aloha? That's for all of you guys recently returning home from PTC in Honolulu. I know you're missing the Aloha love. Well, I wasn't there this year sadly, but our top brass, right? Dean, we sent them out. And all I hear is it was a huge, huge success with record breaking attendance. And I especially wish I could have joined that Canon rooftop party. Sounded like a total blast. Beautiful pictures from there. It did sound like a blast. And Jamie, I don't know. Did you see all the pictures from that? Everyone looked a little sunkissed. I was very jealous of that. That's for sure. They did. Everyone had that glow. I know, I couldn't make it this year, but fortunately JSA still had it covered with our crack events team and JSA TV broadcasters. I got to watch all of those. They were awesome. So make sure that you check out the JSA TV YouTube channel for tons of interviews from PTC. We managed to catch lots of great moments and insights that you don't want to miss out on. And you know what? For me, one of those big pieces of news coming out of PTC was the announcement of PTC's new partnership with Columbia Business School Executive Education, which they got together to develop the new top talent leadership development program. So really exciting, very cool there. Yeah, absolutely. Very, very, very cool. And it kicks off next year in Hawaii with 30 executive participants. And I can't wait to see how that goes. Well, we better get to the news before you change back. So ready to jump in with the first segment of today's show, my friend? Yes, let's get into it with the Movers and Shakers from the past month. Courtesy of JSA's Fast Forward. Here is your Movers and Shakers news. From new hires to award wins and events and publishing news, but it is mostly hiring announcements this time around. So let's kick it off with publishing first. Light River announced a new study that's all about interoperable networking. Along with partner OpenZR+, Light River tested optical transceiver modules with a number of vendors to prove that they can easily integrate with existing infrastructure. Very, very important. So check out their new white paper to learn more about that. Well done, well done, Dean. Okay, our next mover and shaker is T5 data centers. We love those guys. They made a leadership change by adding David Mellor as their new EVP of sales and marketing. So congratulations, David. He comes with plenty of experience in both sales and data network and network engineering. So great fit for T5. Yeah, lots of stuff going on over there at T5 and good people too, I love them. There are other new VP appointments around the industry as well with Jim Brinkzma joining Light River as their SPP of software solutions. Jim is a long time SAS expert. You could say he was sassy. He's been sassy for a while. So Light River is betting on him to lead them into continuing to innovate in the optical networking space. And we can't leave out Envolta, our friends there. They also did some great hiring. They announced Gabriel Urru as their senior director of product and also big one announcing Bret Lindsay as CEO. Congratulations. Yeah, and we should say that this move coincides with some other big announcements from Envolta, including an expansion into Green Bay and the launch of their new secure power co-location offering. So lots happening over at Envolta. Definitely one to watch. Yeah, they are like the overachievers of 2024 already. And it's only number one. All right, so the next up is collaboration and innovation. And here we go. Oh, wait, that was you. Sorry. That's okay. That's okay. And swoosh, collaboration and innovation. Here we go. And now we're here to the collaboration and innovation segment where we break down new partnerships, new products, new services and new sustainability initiatives. So Jamie, take it away. Ooh, big, big, high barger step. Okay, let's go. We start off with Lantana, LED, who supplies lightning for data halls all over the country. And they've recently unveiled two new product lines designed to meet the very demanding needs of data centers. The first one called Ellucent and the second one, Neoterek. Both specifically designed with data centers in mind. And speaking of cool products, there's a new AI service being used by SaskTel, the primary telecom provider for all of Saskatchewan in Canada. It's a virtual agent for mobile customers called Lombot created by software company Aleppo. Aleppo is very proud of Lombot as it's highly adaptive and fine tuned for understanding language. Jamie, we are truly living in the future and I am truly thrilled that I got through that announcement with all of those words. We really are. And our clients are right there on the bleeding edge of this technology. It's incredible. So with that, let's go ahead and switch gears to some facility construction news right now. It's a city filled with great places, but of course now Vancouver, another great spot to see the Spencer building at the city's Harbor Center recently announced a brand new meet me room called MMR5. It's part of a large effort to renovate the building into a cutting edge connectivity hub. Unfortunately yet, no word on whether there will be great snacks in the room at this time. We will get back to you with that very important data. Because who doesn't love snacks? Am I right? I mean, that's the snack room. Let's get the word out here. Over in Oklahoma City, Tonnequin's Edge X data center is undergoing some new upgrades. They're preparing the facility for new demands, including AI workloads. When all is said and done, they're hoping to add up to 12 megawatts more power to their data center. And we say all the power to you. Oh, that's a good one. All right. How can I follow up? I don't know. Lynx Nova recently marked their 10-year anniversary as Northern Virginia's only multi-site IXP to celebrate the added a brand new capability. Guys, here we are. Microsoft Desire Peering Service. Now all peering partners at Lynx Nova can access network solutions specifically designed for tools like Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, and Dynamics 365. Happy birthday, Lynx Nova. Happy birthday indeed. And there is a new kind of energy meter in town for data centers. And energy is a big thing right now. Lagrange's Starline brand unveiled the M70 Critical Power Monitor this month. And it's set to be the new standard for data center busway power monitoring around the globe. The M70 can measure up to six current transformers at once, and I'm not talking about Optimus Prime. Friends over at 1623 Farnum. By the way, I don't use that word lightly. Really awesome people there. They are powering up. They recently deployed three new generators at their Omaha facility, adding three megawatts of power. This was the first bit of news out of 1623 Farnum since naming Bill Severin as president and CEO. Congrats, Bill. We see you. Congratulations, Bill. Bill has been in leadership there since 2019 as an operating partner. So he's now at the helm, making sure everything's got enough juice. He's juicing it up. So that's the last of our collaboration and innovation news for the month. All right, excellent. Now, Dean, let's talk deals and big wins. Okay guys, welcome to deals and big wins. This section of our program is all about mergers, acquisitions, expansions, and projects. Go ahead, Dino. I would love to. Okay, here we go. Legrand's made a big move with their acquisition of ZPE Systems, a California-based IT services company specializing in remote management of network IT equipment. Adding ZPE Systems is advantageous for Legrand as ZPE Service Delivery for Edge Environments will complement Legrand's line of cabinets, PDU switches, and fiber. Interesting. Also, two of the biggest names in digital infrastructure announced a new deal. This past month, guys, get ready. American Tower and IBM teaming up, y'all. American Tower, set to include IBM hybrid cloud platform to all of its Access Edge data center ecosystem. Welcome to JSA TV, where we're covering the latest stories, trends, and innovations from leaders in global connectivity, digital infrastructure, and the networks within. My name is Emily Scherer for JSA, and I am joined today by George Templeman. She is the president of Network Access Partnerships at Sci-Fi Networks, and she is going to talk to us a little bit about how open access fiber networks are impacting the broadband market. So, George, thank you for being here. Thanks, great to be here. And can you start by telling us a little bit about the basics? For those that don't know, what is an open access network and why do they exist? Sure, well, essentially an open access network is a shared infrastructure. So a best-in-class network built to support multiple service providers, much like utilities. We don't have multiple roads and trains for different people who want to use them. And broadband now is an essential utility. So the reason that we have them today is to enable fiber infrastructure, providing the best superior speeds and connectivity and increasingly digital world where everybody needs it. But with the choice of providers without each provider having to build their own expensive and disruptive fiber networks throughout the community. Absolutely, I love that description. It's a very easy and nice way to understand that. So thank you so much. There are open access networks all over the country. So how would you assess them as a whole and what's kind of the current state of the market for open access networks? So the market as a whole, so SciFi Network started out 10 years ago and the market then looked very, very different and open access, the concept of it just wasn't welcomed. We do things the way we do them. But a few years ago, things really got started for us and just in the last sort of six to 12 months there's been a massive emergence of more infrastructure developers with open access networks. So it's a hugely evolving market. And we've already seen the success of that in many other markets like Europe, Asia, Australia, some parts and where it's going it's becoming more and more prevalent. So the state of the market today, it's exciting. And it's always hard to bring a new concept out. So you've been around for a while now. It's yeah, yeah, more accepted. Great, excellent. Let's look into the crystal ball a little bit, make a few predictions here. In your view, what does the future look like for open access markets? Well, it very much does look like the future is open access networks because it just makes sense. One best in class network supports multiple choices with not just choices of providers but choices and access to different services. As we see technology evolving all the time and we want access, we're consuming things more and more online. And I see that continuing to increase. So the more we need bandwidth, the more we need fiber connectivity. And we don't want multiple fiber networks in our streets, it's expensive, it's bad for the environment. But we still want the choice and we still want access to services. So the future just following that common sense really is open access networks. Expansion, yeah, just a lot more open access. A lot more of them, yeah. Okay, excellent, great. And now at Metro Connect, I understand you're gonna be co-hosting a round table in one of the community meetup sessions. What can you tell us about that session and what attendees can take away from that? Yeah, so that's a breakfast session. And I've just remembered it's in a beautiful location in the ocean ballroom, looking out to the sea. So that will be nice. The subject is enterprise fiber and how open access plays into that. And perhaps a little preview is where the mindset is, I guess from sci-fi networks point of view is the technology is evolving with open access networks and the speeds and the quality of service that can now be delivered with evolving technology. And it kind of mitigates, very much reduces the need for enterprise, what we're calling enterprise class fiber networks and makes them far, far much more accessible. So yeah, very much looking forward to that session in the morning. Good, and a beautiful view. So if nothing else, that's why people should have come and check it out. I hope you don't get distracted too much. Breakfast, the view and great content. So make sure to check that out in the morning. And George, where can people go to learn more about sci-fi networks? Well, sci-finetworks.com. That's what I thought you might say. Okay, excellent. Well, we hope you check that out. And George, thank you so much for being here. Thank you. And to our viewers, happy networking. And this is us from Metro Connect 2024. Thanks for tuning in.