 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals I'm Laura Noland at JSA Joining me today is Greg Elliott vice president of business development at 1623 Farnham Greg. Welcome to JSA TV Thank you Laura if you could let's start off by Having you explain your your focus and your responsibilities at 1623 Farnham. Sure. That's great Thanks for having us and it's week four at 1623 Farnham So it's been a blast getting to know the local team they're doing amazing things as well as the ownership and the Berks group and and the Bradley family and Really just talking digging in talking to existing customers and and meeting new customers new partners and just getting back into into this world which I love and The building I've been familiar with the building for years back from my 11 or two grand days when we built that facility and in Kansas City and It's you know 1623 Farnham has been the de facto carrier hotel for four years Just because the long haul fiber landed there fiber was built out through the metro It just naturally Aggregated from that point and when the Berks group bought the building two years ago Obviously, they knew that but Putting 40 million four zero into the building to make it and then take it the next step to a Proper edge data center facility is is really impressive and the things that I love about the building It's it has a carrier neutral Building on meet me room on the third floor Super important and we're always trying to grow that ecosystem We have The Omaha X the internet exchange, so that's a great amenity for for the facility and for the region the added bonus is having all the hyperscaler data centers in in Iowa, Nebraska and Just being the proximity being close to those facilities help us out help grow the Building and then adding next-gen carriers like Megaport Which we we just just announced was just super exciting for us and and our customers Talk about a Megaport. It is very exciting Understand they're deploying a node at at your edge data center. So tell us more. Yeah, you bet It's it's it's really I mentioned next-gen carrier and so So immediately when when Megaport's turned up and in our facility our customers our carriers our content providers are going to have access into a global network, so that the Megaport platform so over 350 service providers like instant connections to AWS and SAP and Dell and an IBM and Oracle and down the list Just gives gives any customer at 1623 Farnham to connect into that infrastructure Connections globally so as as a business is thinking about digital transformation or anything like that It just gives them the ability to You have that scalability and flexibility to connect into all those services as they need them And that's really the goal of you know What we're trying to do with the carrier neutral content neutral meet me room is to give our customers the maximum amount of connections For to help them succeed and that's really what it's all about. So that's it's exciting Exciting to have Megaport and all the other awesome things in the meeting room Absolutely. Well the Megaport deployment is unique With a dual router switch configuration So how does that then give 1623 clients an advantage in the marketplace? Yeah, so it's a it's a unique deployment For them for the Midwest is my understanding and so you mentioned that the dual router do dual switch and it just gives Our customers an additional layer of redundancy or diversity So you protect their Workloads if they're mission-critical workloads, it just gives them the availability of the the ability to To have that additional redundancy. So that's that's a huge thing for for Omaha and really the region Each benefit for sure So what type of customers or growth are you seeing at the data center as of late? Yeah, so in my short time, I've seen the things that I've seen are Amazing. So we're seeing high-count fibers Fiber routes being built into the facility Everything from new fiber high-count fiber met metro builds To middle mile to there's a long-haul route that is coming through the building as well So that's that's going to create a ton of opportunities And in the area. So that's that's excellent And then past the fiber which is which is super super important We're seeing inter-piles cloud companies that are taking down space with us Just because of the proximity to other cloud providers in the area. They want direct connectivity Into those sourcing that activity Content providers and and really other businesses that they want to connect to all those carriers and services Just tons of growth tons of opportunity and just really excited to be be at 1623 Farnham It's great to watch the journey and the growth there at 1623 Farnham So Greg as we start to wrap up. Do you have anything else you'd like to add and share with our viewers? You know, it's I would just say if you're in the Midwest You're in Omaha feel free to reach out to me at any point and we would love to show you around the building Show you what we've been up to show you what we're building and Just show it off. So that that would be the the last thing that I'd add Okay, well, you can go see him in person for sure. That sounds like a great tour Stop by see Greg and the team and but what about online? Where can our viewers go? Maybe online to check out the latest happenings. Sure all of our socials 1623 Farnham And then the awesome new website that JSA helped us with and so that's 1523 Farnham comm Or you can email me directly Greg that Elliott at 1623 Farnham calm Awesome. Well, thank you so much Greg for joining us. It's been a pleasure. Thank you And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcast. Happy networking