 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Jamie Scott of Kataya JSA coming to you from ITW 2021 joining me today is my good friend, Mr. Gil Santelis of MJ FX New Jersey fiber exchange. Gil, welcome to JSA TV again. Jamie, thank you. Thank you for having us on the show. It's something we look forward to every year being part of JSA TV and thank you for having us. Thank you, Gil. And, you know, our long friendship our long history never has there been a unique time, I could say ITW is back we're excited to be part of it. What are you looking forward to most at ITW this year. You know, it's been a long break for us. The last time we were in person was in Brazil at the capacity event in South America. And that was close to 18 months ago. So we haven't seen our friends in the industry we've been limited to these video platforms. And we're looking forward to finally seeing our friends and colleagues from the US, hopefully from around the world that can potentially be with us and and have a cup of coffee have a drink and and just get to get to business again get back into negotiations and talks. Yeah, see each other face to face. I'm really looking forward to myself. And also we should say ITW has done a great job in bringing a hybrid model to to its events so for sure folks can also log in virtually, you're speaking on a panel at ITW on September 1 I'm looking forward to it it's taking place 10am Eastern called subsea connect global subsea trends and I can't think of a more well suited panel topic for you my friend. So tell us give us a little bit of a teaser if you will what will you be sharing there. So there's been a lot of new projects announced in the last 12 to 18 months and looking forward to getting insight. You know there's the Confluence project has been announced that's going to be connecting on the cable stations in the East Coast. You've seen a new cable announced connecting the US to South America will be the fourth new cable connecting South America to North America. It's a high count cable the highest one yet so far 12 count. So with these kinds of changes in how these networks are being put together that the structure is completely different there's much more capacity available and now you're creating a reason why Confluence is going to be at the right time connecting cable stations with higher count cables, keeping us all available virtually if need be, but also supporting us in person with better applications and better connectivity. You know you recently said that we are sitting in one of the hottest markets ever for telecommunications in terms of investments so what do you think so why why do you think subsea is booming. So we're a global society, you know we'd like to have our data available to us anywhere anytime, and there's geographies that are better suited than others in terms of these big application deployment so the subsea makes the world interconnected. And whether it's the Nordics you want to try and have your compute or application hosted, or you have an Israeli application that's just, you know world class you want access to. You're not getting access to those systems. Another project announced recently was the, it was the blue med cable now is the blue Ramon cable that's going to provide a bypass the Suez canal through the help of the Israelis. It's a fascinating time for us to innovate and create new infrastructure that's much more resilient. We need that we absolutely need that additional infrastructure. For sure, you mentioned these applications, more and more being developed every day. We need access, and you created a model right there at the cable landing station and see it behind you as a hub for this type of connectivity. This is the biggest place where cables land so people all over the world, coming to and get back to a facility there to learn about what you're doing. Why, how do you think that is, you know, the term carrier neutral come about 2025 years ago, and it was a place where you can interconnect networks, which became the beginning of the Internet. That's what the Internet really is is connecting networks together. Because we did a purpose build facility at your three facility and had it located at a cable landing station with access to duck works, we became a cable landing station we have the hot fruit system in our facility. We interconnect with the Tata meet me room. We bring four subsea cable systems to one place with 20 plus terrestrial networks. So it's the new kind of hub. It's the hub that was built with the end in mind and we're proud to call it home and proud to call it NGFS. It's so amazing. Yes, I love that model. And also I was reading some of your headlines, of course, tell us about NGFS's work with United Nations recently. So the United Nations and this organization in particular the ITU has been around for a long time, and it was established to try and have a conversation about how we're going to connect to each other. So think about it. We first started connecting the worlds with transatlantic cables 130 40 years ago, and the conversation was well how do we do this and one of the rules of engagement and those cables are now closer to 1000 cables globally connecting us all. And that conversation still has to happen, but the United Nations, those are the forefront of that conversation about whether it's subsea cable whether it's 5G, whether it's infrastructure plays the Internet, and even space. So the United Nations now is tapping the topic of how do we manage space. So, because we play a role in global infrastructure, supporting specifically North America in the US, we wanted to see to the table, we wanted to be able to share our thoughts and insight on how companies can work with North America and the US assets we have to make it available globally and share best practices. So as you know we had the Ministry of Chile come to NGFS to see for themselves, a year and a half ago, what a cable landing station could look like if it was built with the end of a cable to be a network hub. And we want to continue to provide that example to the world in terms of what you can do if you plan ahead. That's what we do in the UN is a great platform to share that message. What a wonderful testimony to what you and your team are doing right there in well township New Jersey, really providing that global example I love that working our viewers who are interested in learning more go through all that can reach out to me or the team. As a matter of fact, we've got a new employee joining our team starting in September. We're focusing on the enterprise space specifically US financials, but Felix status there with us and day one is our general manager, he works primarily with the OTT is the big wholesale providers and please reach out to him, or you can always come to our website and hit the contact page and ask questions and be happy to reach out to you. Absolutely NJFX.net. Thank you so much, Gil for being part of the important space in history that we're we're standing in the in the hub of connectivity and JFX really that global example that we look to as we build better network infrastructure for tomorrow. Thank you Gil for all you do and and for your time here on JSA TV and thank you viewers for tuning in. As always, happy networking.