 Hey guys, everyone, can you believe that the end of October has come and gone? What is happening here? Well, guess what guys we welcome you to another edition of JSA's fast-forward I'm Jamie Scott-o-Kataya founder and CEO of JSA And I'm Dean Perine executive vice president at JSA and thanks for joining us as we come to you live That's right live online via LinkedIn and YouTube through our very own JSA TV Newsroom and Jamie. I'm right there with you. I cannot believe that October is already in the rear view 2022 feels like it was here and gone. I'm telling you it's insanity and By the way, this is also a reminder that we're supposed to start our Christmas shopping. Do you know less than two months away? Are you ready yet? You know what Jay? You know me very well I I've gotten all of my shopping done and all of the gifts wrapped and it's already already under the tree Yeah, yeah, I've known you a little too long Dean. You're not that great of a liar Yeah, you just never lie. So you have bad practice at it Yeah, honestly, Jay, I haven't thought about shopping and I won't until like maybe the 15th of December Either way, we've and a lot of that is because we've been busy around here at JSA Which reminds me I want to talk about a very very huge accomplishment And we were just talking about it earlier on our team call and while we were in Savannah Jay It was so good to see you by the way, and I can't forget about that we have got some huge accomplishments for October and specifically I'm talking about the brand new capacity Europe Extra powered by JSA offering partnership with Capacity Europe that brought you live interview broadcasts simulcasts simulcasts Across nine different platforms. We covered all three days from start to finish October 18th through the 20th, and I'm telling you what this was pretty impressive stuff. Super impressive Dean I am so glad you mentioned this. I was so impressed so excited with the caliber that the unbelievable Incredible work done by our entire JSA TV family to pull that off, especially our very own managing director Barb Mitchell for handling These interviews with these so incredible job there guys. Yeah, Barb Exceptional job all around and the interviews were compiled into recap videos so that our lawyer listeners That's you can check out every single stellar video That we made in your own time So those are all available for you to download online and we're talking about the very interesting insights from all of the executives that we that we interviewed including CEO is like Vani Ben Katesh the CEO of global business for Airtel business a very very cool interview with with Vanny Simply incredible and yes, I have to say I couldn't help but binge watch all these great capacity Europe extra Powered by JSA interviews. It was incredible And I felt so up to date Dean on all the breaking news from both the floors of capacity Europe and global carriers awards Yeah, no Jay So only if I were up to date with getting my brain around Christmas and I've got work The thing is is that at 4 p.m. Today one of the radio stations that I listen to they're gonna start playing Christmas music. That's right Thank you, thanksgiving Halloween was yesterday Thanksgiving isn't even here yet and they're already playing Christmas music So now I'm obsessing about the holidays great And I'm sure Dean that you have all the time in the world for your holiday shopping You know, don't worry about these, you know supply chain issues or you know, if gifts will arrive on time at your You're not helping Let's get right to it. There's so many big milestones and expansion announcements that we've got to get through right While I stress here internally about Christmas and Thanksgiving and all that stuff It's time to move on and celebrate some big milestone and milestones and expansion announcements From the past month. So Jay, are you ready to get going? Let's do it Okay, our telecom news now blog. That's TNN like CNN, but for industry Anyway Well, we'll play their curt nice nice job with the script today our blog is packed with some major announcements Let's start off with a big expansion in Europe That's right T5 data centers announced the expansion of their facility management services in Europe including the operations and management of the global tech firm in Denmark Yeah, and sticking with Europe exciting news from our Nordic friends as well Finland-based phi-cola will now operate under the Verne global brand bringing this potential expansion of its three Helsinki sites to 90 megawatts even better. These phi-cola sites are powered by 100% sustainable energy sources. I Couldn't wait for you to read that Jay. I knew you were gonna love this bit of news No, no, and I should tell you to if you want to learn how phi-cola is 100% powered by sustainable energy sources Oh, yeah co-founder Kim Guinness shares all in chapter six. So Greener data Christmas gifts friends and clients Jamie I think you've just solved a problem for me. Everybody on my list is getting the greener data book. Hello. Yeah Yeah, yeah, and also isn't Kim speaking on this Thursday JSA virtual round table Yeah, great point. You know, I'm glad you mentioned it Kim with fellow executives from Nova data centers switch Kohler power systems mission-critical facilities international K Which is MCFI of course our amazing EVP of strategy Laurel Burton moderator I know I know This amazing a group of folks in our industry will be talking on exploring alternative energy sources power generation and Efficiency for data centers in 2023 and beyond. So great tapping important important this Thursday, November 3rd 1 p.m. Eastern and I will tell you go ahead and register on jsa.net as of a few hours ago We had over 222 people already registered. So definitely register be one of the two hundred and some things About our events department. What are they doing over there? I mean, it's crazy the number of registrants we have here Anyway, maybe they're just going to to watch Laurel do a really great job of moderating either I would anything that Laurel does Absolutely, I've learned more from Laurel in last year than I have many others from outside of JSA But anyway, let's go ahead and get back to expansion news and let's head state side. That's right in the United States We're talking about Des Moines, Iowa based light edge. You don't get any more United States than Des Moines, Iowa Do you we're talking about a Des Moines, Iowa based light edge is updating its entire cloud portfolio And is now offering the fifth generation of its private multi and single tenant cloud services So congratulations to light edge All right, Dean and I will travel state side with you Let's go ahead and bring our expansion news from your Midwest area over to the West in my neck of the woods data bank on fire of course with two big announcements this month the data center leader and colocation Announced the opening of its sixth data center in Salt Lake City, Utah to support mission critical infrastructure Yeah, it seems like not a fast-forward goes by where we aren't mentioning data bank And we're going to continue to do that because that is a big one and data bank also just launched data bank Metal which is deployed in more than 40 data centers across 20 US metros The offering brings low latency access without tech or customized limits So it's bare metal or a data bank metal without limits. We love that Data Bank CEO Raul chapter chapter author. So I won't I won't mention All right, so let's go ahead and head over to the east coast now Dean arch Post that you used to live on right Jay. I know I love it arch top fiber announced a Strategic partnership with the town of silver cheese New York That brings a state-of-the-art all fiber broadband network to the town to offer more connectivity and bring tech focused jobs to that Market we love that, you know I absolutely love these stories and arch top is kind of at the top of the heap with bringing Broadband to those who are in need of it, especially across New York's Hudson Valley. So keep an eye on arch top We covered almost every time zone in that bit of news Jay. So let's celebrate some appointments next Definitely Dean sounds great. All right. Check this out fiber sense Announce the appointment of mark so-called to its board of directors so-called the former senior director Infrastructure at a little place called Google We are key oversaw Google's global infrastructure rollout. So serious serious new win there Yeah, seriously, that is gonna be hard to top But we have some good news here too big news from Singapore where BDX appointed Deepa Swamathan I think I got that right to its executive leadership team as the company's vice president of marketing We know we love marketing so congratulations Deepa on the appointment there at BDX. Yes, well deserved well reserved Also up next we have a net number global data services who appointed Dr. Marco LaFrance as new vice president of business and market development Nicely done there. And how about Vertec Corporation announcing the appointment of Rob Pedrosa as director of telecom operations Yeah, very cool Rob. Yeah All right guys ready here he goes I'm going to round out the announcement section of our broadcast with three stellar Appointments by prime data centers one Steven Benson as the vice president of critical operations to Kristen B. Jarrano as vice president of construction and three Renee Dowice as VP of procurement Wow lots to go and lots of great things going on over there at prime Centers and also the vice president of critical operations. Is there a more important role than that one? I don't think I've ever heard of one Okay, so let's go ahead and shift gears and celebrate some major Capital funding efforts that have happened here in or in October. There you go I do love me a good finance story Especially of course when it's tied to sustainability news edge connects secured an additional 150 million in sustainability linked financing to support its global expansion initiatives They're showing our industry how it's easy to be green You know Jamie when we talk about the greener data and we talk about being green It does remind me a lot of my younger years when I used to watch the Muppets all the time and Kermit the frog would always sing it Ain't easy being green. Anyway, I will not do my my best Impersonation right now But yes, anyway Congratulations to attach connects. Oh, thank you. Kermi. I love that And as you know a mother of a two-year-old I know exactly this song You're talking about yeah, yeah, and of course it is very hard to top a hundred and fifty million But let's not Let's not go ahead and try connect base gets into the second figures with its 21 million in series C funding announcement Led by of course the fabulous digital bridge ventures. So congrats connect base. That's huge Yeah, well done to to Ben Edmond and the team over there at connect base on onto some major Partnerships that we need to now highlight for October Jay. You want to start this one off? Absolutely our five percent friends are added again announcing a joint partnership. I love this one Australia's national broadband network to investigate and monitor Australia's digital Backbone the company's digital asset service will monitor the network to see what vibrations pose a threat really cool stuff guys Story yeah, yeah, very cool. And while five percent is monitoring underground Light path is keeping tabs above ground. That's right The company announced plans to collaborate with the shed. The shed is a New York City arts venue How cool is that right to provide seamless secure Wi-Fi connectivity for artists employees and visitors through their very Uniquely designed venue. What a cool thing they're doing, right? Just love it. Just love it. All right time to go global partnerships now Dean network neighbors Megaport and Zen layer Announcing a strategic partnership guys to expand the global reach of their networks to more than 800 locations across six continents to their joint customers. We're talking serious serious coverage Yeah, that's the definition of coverage isn't it? coverage All right, so I'm moving over to edge connects again Which announced a joint venture with obowitz and for capital to address demand for rising data usage in the Philippines Yep, congratulations. Once again to edge connects and back here in the States edge connects also expanded its partnership with Ninja IX a not-for-profit internet exchange Operator operator the reach has expanded from the Phoenix Internet exchange to Las Vegas Norfolk and Houston the company will announce nine additional markets later this year and into 2023 so that's Ninja IX. We had a lot of fun with that one. Oh, how fun. All right So what type of announcements we have left Dean? Oh, don't you worry Jay? We still have plenty to share How about JSA's own Laurel Burton? We're gonna talk about this again because it's very very cool who is speaking on a DCD connect Virginia panel November 8th titled Virginia. We have a problem. How big is the data center PR issue? So Laurel is not only moderating our virtual roundtable here this week But she is also speaking at DCD connect Virginia on the on the very cool panel entitled Virginia We have a problem. I love it. I love it And you know Laurel is the best we adore her here at JSA and also at DCD connect Virginia powerhouse data centers vice president of data center development and construction Luke Kipfer will also be speaking at DCD connect Ready to talk about how his company is turning existing data center alley buildings into state-of-the-art Data center shells by rehabbing them rehabbing in a green way the effort is also Revitalizing the community gotta love that Jamie if that was a show on HDTV and they would have at least one viewer I would love to watch how they do that. I would too now also Dean How about a TV show about 5g changing the entire live concert event experience you watch, you know I love music and I love going to concerts Jamie as a musician as in case it's not Obvious, I'm ready to set the DVR right now to watch that It's not a TV show yet, but 1623 is far in a recent article on the future of live concerts and how it's redefining the 5g edge is a Must read love this one. Yes, and absolutely I will write the TV script for that one and speaking of TV show topics in Volta tackled cybersecurity better than an episode of Dateline when the company highlighted national cybersecurity awareness month with a series of interactive content platforms to educate and inform throughout the entire month of October and Kurt and our scriptwriter today Kurt This was my absolute favorite bit of news. So thank you for writing this today for us. We have any time you can put Dateline in our script All right, so how about giving a hand also for the JSA clients that made the shortlist for the 18th annual Lightweeding leading lights 2022 Yay a big shout out ready guys to American Tower China Telecom Corporation Sienna connect-based consolidated communications fiber light extranet systems Roger communications and Quickplay Sportsnet SN now and titanium platform. Yeah Yes, huge virtual high-five to these incredible companies for this shortlist announcement We will be pulling for them on Friday, December 2nd when the winners are announced live like a month away All right, should we close now Dean with some new product and service announcements It just feels like it's the right time writing to do Jamie. Let's do this Titanium platform introduced a value-added customer defined application CD a Product suite that allows carriers to design their own use cases and solve Signaling problems. This is something we're gonna have to dig into a little bit more This is pretty cool stuff right here. It definitely is definitely and speaking of Solving problems and making customers happy something our clients are known for Horizon doubled that's doubled its fiber internet speed at no cost to customers During a time when others are raising prices now. That's impressive. No, absolutely that is impressive And we do love our friends over there at horizon So let's keep these improvements for customers is celebrations going with the release of the new Netflix release 4.6.1 Network as a service offering Light River allows service providers to manage multi-vendor networks while delivering a better customer Experience that's Netflix release 4.6.1 from Light River 4.6.1 love it Songs TV shows we've got it all all right The customer is always right of course which explains why light path presented at Education virtual lunch and learn aimed at educating those on the e-rate e-rate Of course providing schools and libraries access to affordable telecommunications and information services with discounts of up to 90% yes 90% off now that is a discount Yeah, so maybe you can help me find some discounts on the black Friday for a holiday shopping now that you've Planted that guilt trip into my head about not having bought any gifts Well from an SEO perspective just so we can put black Friday or hashtag with this video. I'm like loving it But yeah, don't worry Dean. I know I get it how they nerves already setting in not just for you But for everyone but go ahead, you know have your daughter. I cancel you shopping for you this year. She sold enough Yeah, I'm not giving anyone my credit card I don't trust myself with my credit card let alone a child although maybe I should maybe maybe she would be better with the credit card Well, I guess there's one way to figure that one out. All right Dean Well, I think we did our duty. We hit all our big headlines, right? No, maybe you have some time for that holiday shopping before you the leaves fall in the Midwest Well, they are getting close to all being down because I can because my gutters are full of them frankly I'll let you know how that goes when I stress shop on December 23rd Remember if you like to connect with us and maybe even be featured on JSA TV Make sure to email us at say hi at jsa.net Absolutely, and did we all hear how December 15 turned into December 23rd anyway? If you want to read about the stories we mentioned here today and discover some more on your own go ahead and check out the latest news and info from the world of data centers and telecom on TNN telecom news now blog JSA net and oh wait, I don't want to not mention check out our Amazon bestseller greener Anyway, yes, Jamie, thank you for mentioning that you hadn't I normally it's between six and twelve times throughout one of these Yeah Anyway, that is that is another fast forward in the books. Take it easy everyone Enjoy the fall and we will see you for sure next month. Bye guys We hope to see many of you soon also at industry events like DCD connect Virginia November 7th through 8th by the way guys with our Partnership with DCD. We have some great registration hotel tails to pass on to our clients So let us know if you're planning last minute to attend call us also SC 22 November 13th in Dallas and our new partner structure invest November 18th in London And of course rounding out the month capacity Asia November 29 to December 1st in Singapore One of our JSA years will be there. So say stay safe y'all and as always happy networking See you later