 Welcome to JSA TV live the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Barb Mitchell coming to you today live Many of our friends and colleagues. It's a busy busy conference this year. I'm pleased to have you joining me Louis Fialo Vice president of China telecoms America. Thank you so much for joining. That's my honor Thank you for having me here today. So what are your thoughts so far on the conference? Well overall I think it's it's a good sign because you know, I attended last year and The attendance wasn't that great at this time as soon as to be really a lot of energy and more importantly I'm starting to see like new types of companies outside of the traditional You know focus on other areas of like IOT and other areas. So that just tells me there's continued innovation So I'm very positive about what's happening here. Yeah, it's it seems I don't know if the sense that I get is it's sort of bigger than ever I think that you know last year for a lot of reasons it was we were sort of easing our way back Into in-person events, but this year. I mean better better than ever. So yeah, I echo your sentiments I think that it's an exciting time to be here And so for our viewers who may not know, can you tell us a little bit about CTA China telecoms America? Yeah, where the America's region Operator for China telecom we've been around. This is our 21st year And we are providing international broadband services to us multinationals that go to China and Asia as well as We also operate with US or international telecom operators to help them solve their problems in other parts of the world where we have resources and we've been really a full service provider and You know, we're gonna talk a little bit about some of the changes we've gone. We've gone But overall we're very, you know An organization that's here to help a lot of us. Yeah, so I mean you you hinted we would talk about it Why don't why don't we just start with you know, it's January 2023 I always feel like this is such a good time to come together for these conversations Because we can you know, we can talk about what what do you feel is is coming up What what can we expect to hear from you? Yeah, so I tell you what we're doing 2023. Yeah in 2022 decided as a company that we wanted to sort of refocus our business a little bit And what by that I mean is that we decided to move from being the underlying primary provider in the US to being an overlay provider Okay, so Taking advantage of some of the resources and capabilities our parent company has to offer So what we've done is we started building out our SDA plan solutions. We started building out our cloud services And as a result of that we'll be making some further announcements this year That's talks about that and what our focus is really going to be is to help provide, you know, I call up solutions take advantage of some of the IOT technology that we already currently have and Bring in the other capabilities that we have through our parent company in China. They're using 5g. It's really a complete Shift away from just providing point solutions and stuff. So taking care of data centers Everything so we have a much more robust and For today's by right and so you mentioned, you know, the you know, selection of services Excuse me and provided by your parent company Really the the lead cloud services provider in China and and now as you start to bring those back to the Americas What what sorts of insights can you leverage and and what's that process look like? So First of all, we have a product called tiny which largest cloud hybrid cloud infrastructure provider in the probably in the world but definitely China and what when I say this is that tiny is a Platform that allows not only to take advantage of our cloud infrastructure But allows us to take advantage of all our our partners cloud infrastructures In not only in China, but internationally. So today we have connections with 80 different public cloud infrastructures around the world. We have 144 data centers that are tied to this tiny cloud service and then we do this in 48 different International municipalities plus everything we have in China So that's a big investment that we've done and what we've done in the US is started out some of those capabilities And that's what we're going to be starting to offer to link it into all for this larger cloud initiative Yeah, so so how does that? How do you see that helping businesses? You know with their what they're doing with their edge cloud services to just make things smoother to have the access to that And that's that's another thing I forgot to mention is our we have an edge Communications platform that ties to the cloud and that edge communication platform allows you to have whatever type You're using to connect to us here in our cloud Okay, we can pass you on to different for cloud providers. We can do the load balancing We can pass from location to the X we can take you from a data center to a cloud infrastructure So what we've done is we built a cloud and top of the cloud infrastructure that of all the partners that we're using So it gives you a lot of flexibility. You don't have to go out and and negotiate agreements with multiple Providers, you don't have to worry about geographic issues, you know as Moving into China or some living in Singapore, you know, we have those capabilities already built out Yeah, and and so let's go back then to we sort of we're looking at 2022 and and the adoption of cloud and bringing, you know, all of these great Capabilities into the Americas, but so what what next what should we expect to hear from you as the year progresses? Yeah, so we have three main initiatives for 2023 the the first one is we're we've built out our own cloud infrastructure that's under CTA brand and our CTA resources and we are also building out We're going to be introducing in the US or in America's region an IOT We have Which has And those people And working Graded all into what resolution because through digital Enterprises go through that process They need these solutions and they not only wanted in the US or in the Americas But they also want to be able to connect it and make it seamless throughout the world and that's where our value is Yeah, so before we wrap up, what are you? What are you hoping for for this week? I mean we're we're in day two To some I had asked someone this morning. Are we on day two or five or because it already feels like, you know So much has already happened where it's Monday morning. We have a couple days left. What are you hoping for the most? Well, you know, it's it's always PTC is a great time of the year to kick off class being in Hawaii. Obviously, it's also So to reconnect, you know, most companies go through their planning phases at the end of the year Continues a little bit into this thing But this is where you actually have a plan and now you need to Convey the message to your partners and your customers that this is a great opportunity for this So for us is, you know starting off with working with JSA TV But it continued to work with other and communicating what we're doing it And you know sort of educate anybody and continue that process Yeah, yeah, that's great And so for those folks that couldn't make it to Honolulu and want to connect with you Potentially after the show where can they go to find you? Yeah, so you can find us at www.ctamericas.com You can find us also on social media on China telecom America's on LinkedIn and on Twitter I believe we have other sites, but I can't remember but those are the main ones So I encourage everybody to go out and meet you Fantastic. Thank you so much for joining our first interview of the show It was a great a great start to it a great start to the conversations The conversations will continue for the remainder of today and and on for the remainder of the week As well. So thank you viewers for tuning in. Thank you again for joining us And we'll see you shortly for the next round of JSA TV live here at at PTC in Honolulu, Hawaii. Mahalo