 Welcome to JSA TV the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scato-Cutia of JSA joining me here at ITW 2018 in the fabulous Chicago. My dear friend Mr. Cliff Keynes he's the co-CEO of Clareon. Cliff welcome to JSA TV. Thanks for having me Jamie. Love to be here. It's always a pleasure and for sure Clareon is not the same company six months ago three years ago it's just unbelievable on a ride on a roller coaster ride. So tell our viewers who might not already know. So yeah we started off as a dark fiber provider but you know that the plan was always really to to address the the 5G coming wave of 5G intensification and access and how access is changing. So what we've been doing is acquiring assets that put us in position to to really benefit from those opportunities. So it's been a wild ride you're right. We've done five acquisitions in since June of 2015 and we'll be doing more. So absolutely on an acquisition tier and just here at ITW you dropped some news that have dropped some jaws. So why don't you tell us a little bit more about that. Yeah so we we announced the NYNJ-1 which is a subsea link connecting the Long Island 1025 Connect data center with the data center is in Wall Township. It's a unique route no one has anything quite like it and it's in the water it'll be operational soon we're taking orders. So just let me know if you need any further information about that and happy to provide other details. I mean just just taking a beat here because that's pretty unbelievable a subsea link between Long Island and Wall New Jersey that is in the water and you are now taking orders. I mean that's that's a first. Yes it's absolutely a first. I think the market will see a lot more of these around the world because it just pays to have these redundant and diverse routes connecting the landing stations on both coasts and throughout Europe. So I think we're gonna see a market of of new bypass type cables around the world and we're fortunate here to be able to pull this one off as a first on the east coast. It's unbelievable and and literally kid you not it's it's a palpable buzz here at ITW over the snooze and putting putting your company growth your subsea builds your acquisitions aside. Tell us why is Clarion's message resonating so well right now? That's that's a great question. I think what we're we're trying to do here is finally reaching the market through the real estate community through the access carrier community through the data center community because at the end of the day all these assets have to work in harmony with each other and you know we are taking the position that if we own these assets and control them we can deliver a higher quality higher quality of service to our customers and provide more of a turnkey solutions to our customers. For sure and so I love to ask this question particularly from my my CEOs that I get to sit in the hot seat next to me looking in your crystal ball you know the one you have right in your back pocket. Where do you see Clarion going in the next six to twelve months ahead? That's a that's a short window so it's probably pretty easy to answer but we'll absolutely do at least one more acquisition in that time frame maybe two and probably one of expanding into other geographies so we're you know focusing on delivering these access access solutions by combining our fiber data center assets we may be looking at some real estate assets that would help such as you know rooftop or building access rights and that type of thing to provide more turnkey solutions for the wireless community and densification and 5G but at the end of the day we you know it's really all about access and providing access to in a bi-directional way from customers to access any carrier they want and for the carriers to be able to reach the customers without paying undue you know tolls on on reaching them. There you go wireless guys watch out Clarion is on the move and thank you so much Cliff for being so generous with your time once again here on JSA TV. Always great to see you Jamie. Thanks for having me over and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV. Happy networking.