 Welcome back to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts live here from Capacity Europe in London. We are here covering the latest stories, trends and innovations from leaders in the global connectivity and digital infrastructure industries. I'm very excited to introduce you all to Arter Mendez, he's VP of Sales for Angola Cables. Welcome to JSA TV, Arter. Thank you for inviting us. Yeah, absolutely. We're so happy to get the chance to chat with you all today. So, first of all, we heard that Angola Cables is actually the most interconnected operator in Africa and you all are actually based in Africa. So, could you tell us a little bit about that? Yeah, it all started with Angola from Angola and with the investment of works that is a cable that connects 11 African countries and 3 European countries. And with that, and with all the strategy that we made along the side, we have been ranking number 3 of Kaida, that is one of the most important rankings and we are the only African player that is in that ranking the top 100. And that specifically says, because we did interconnect today the 5 continents of the world, even if we started from a small African point. So, because we built it, the first ever made cable in the South hemisphere by connecting Angola to Brazil, then Brazil to United States, and then together with using other cables that we had capacity, we are interconnecting the 5 continents today. Excellent, thank you for that. A quick overview, and so you reached an important milestone recently. You reached the highest peak of more than 12 terabits of data traffic, right? Yeah, it was interesting numbers, it was worldwide, of course then, I'll say that majority of that traffic is on our most used routes that is between Brazil and United States with the money cable. But of course, this is all of the circuits and also the IP transit that has a huge grow in the last times in the company. Yeah, great. And also because we developed and pushed for a specific region in Brazil that it was Fortaleza, that was nothing when we started. And today is the second biggest city in terms of traffic in Brazil, after São Paulo and with a very healthy grow and a great ecosystem that have been created there, which make us happy, of course. Oh, wow, wow, yeah, that's incredible. Okay, so we're talking demand, obviously there's a ton of demand and in August, West Africa actually had quite a major outage and that created a disruption from Africa to Europe. So a big headline in the industry at the time. So can you talk a little bit about how Angola Cables helped us sort that out? Yeah, it's a major problem because in the RC that is a country after Angola, there's the Congo Canyon River that is very strong. So it's the second cut in the next, in the three years, in the past three years. And when it cut it, it cut all the cables that are passing in the region. So in this case was walks, ice and sawtree, which put it in blind in the west African on the south of the RC. So Angola Cables, because we have sacks, we have been able to devise the traffic using sacks, connecting to Brazil and then with money to United States and being able to pick up all of that traffic. We also use it to Equiano, that is a brand new cable that was not affected, that we have been able to diversify the traffic down to South Africa and then entering in Equiano and push it to Europe. So it was pretty interesting and we see positive cases. There's the entity that is Kentique that studied the traffic patterns. And the good thing is was that a few of the South African regions countries have been fully dependent on Angola Cables, was the case of Namibia or the RC or even Congo, that they maintain all of their traffic through Angola Cables network, which was great to be able to help them, specifically with sacks. Yeah, excellent. So glad you all were there to help in that time of need. Excellent. So it's been great to chat with you, Arthur. Thank you for joining us on JSA TV today. Okay, our pleasure. Thank you. Absolutely. And thank you to all of our viewers who are hanging out with us today here live from Capacity Europe on JSA TV today. As always, happy networking. Thank you.