 Welcome everyone to JSA TV and JSA podcasts where we're covering the latest stories, news, trends, innovations from leaders across the global connectivity and digital infrastructure space. I'm Barb Mitchell from JSA and I'm very pleased to be joined today by Emmanuel Rochaus, CEO of Orange or Orange, whichever country you happen to be in. Nice to meet you. We last spoke, it's been a year already and we spoke last year at Capacity Europe and I know a lot happens in the course of a year but most significantly today you had some exciting news come out. Can you share that with us? Yes, actually this morning we revealed a new brand for our world selectivities which is Orange Wholesale. It's the continuity of the new strategy that Orange announced in April this year with a clear focus on wholesale as a key pillar for the group growth and revenues. And a key focus also on capitalizing on our existing infrastructure and developing more infrastructure. So this has translated into a new organization that was put in place in April which is Orange Wholesale. It's a division which is gathering into one organization with one boss which is sitting in the group executive committee. And this organization gathered the domestic wholesale activities in France, the international wholesale and also the totem which is our tower call and also Orange Marine which is our fleet, our cable ship fleet. So that's a new organization and now we have a new brand. This brand is intended to show the power of Orange in this market, the wholesale market and also leverage on all our existing assets and be able to invest more and show to the market that we are one single activity around wholesale at Orange. It feels like a very pivotal time to be speaking with you about this. That's a fairly major announcement I think and so important for your organization globally but also important I think for the customers that you serve. And so one of the things that is spoken of a lot in our industry is the idea of network as a service and so can you speak to that and your perspective on that? Yeah that's one of the key elements of the promise of the Orange Wholesale brand is to provide services on demand to our customers which means that we want to transform our current customer experience with wholesale connectivity into something which is more like what you have with our customers experience with the cloud. That's a very important and very transformative strategy because it first goes through our network transformation. So we are currently at international level, completely reshuffling our international networks in order to make them more virtualized, more layered. So having an infrastructure layer, transmission layer, service layer and orchestration layer, those different layers are fully independent one from the other. So enabling to do very innovative models in terms of wholesale. So having some external services working and running on our telco cloud or a telco infrastructure or bringing our services on another's infrastructure or transmission network. So that's really a key element network transformation and the other element that we need to transform is our customer relationship. We are digitizing and automating as much as possible what we offer to our customers. So having porting our offers to the web and also through APIs for our customers and this is now we have four or five offers which are available fully online, fully on demand. And it's going from IP transit to EVPL cloud numbers and very soon CDM. So you I mean it here we I mean we're it's October almost the end of October. So we're getting close to rounding out this year 2023. A lot of major things have happened for you already this year and whether that be, you know, the new announcement that you made today with with your orange wholesale but but also with some of the solutions that you offer. But when you look even further ahead now as if you know it's we never like to just rest for too long right what's next. What's what's coming up that's exciting that you may be ready to share with us. Yeah, well actually we have two two key areas which are very exciting. One is on the service side. We are we have launched three weeks ago a new CDN offer on the market, which is a trusted CDN offer European with managed by a European player orange. Based on the European technology with all the data hosted in in the European Union and this well this is the beginning of the story. So we have launched this offer. Now we have we have deployed it in in France mainly and we're starting in in Q4 this year to deploy it in Africa and the Middle East and then probably in Asia and America's. So next year will be really the year where we will see this offer anchor into the market and get attraction. So that's the first one and the second one is about infrastructure. I mentioned that orange wholesale has been created to to capitalize on the orange infrastructure and also develop them. And we are now we have a lot of interesting projects to develop new infrastructures and marine cables but also terrestrial projects in Europe. And also working with the satellite players in order to be, I would say, under the sea on the on the on the terrestrial and in the sky. Interesting. Yeah, real global push, right? A lot of global solutions and infrastructure. And so you're here for the rest of the week and for people that want to maybe catch up with you and hear a little bit more about what we've been talking about or some of the other things that you're working on. How can they find you? Oh, it's it's easy. We have a orange has a room, a meeting room, which is on the second floor. So you can come in and see us. There is always somebody to to to to welcome you. So I would be very happy to talk with all the customers partners that we have in the marketplace. Amazing. Thank you. So great to chat with you again. We look forward to hopefully it's not a whole nother year before we talk again. But if it is, we look forward to seeing what happens in this upcoming year. So thank you. Thank you for joining us. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcasts. That's it for today. We'll be back again tomorrow with more news and updates for you on JSA TV live here at capacity Europe 2023. Happy networking.