 Hey everybody! Hey guys! Hey Dino! It's that time again! Yay! Happy Wednesday everyone! Welcome to another edition of JSA's Fast Forward. We're broadcasting live. This is very live so if we sneeze, God bless us. And we are online by not just LinkedIn but also YouTube and our own JSA TV newsroom. So hey guys, I'm Jamie Scott of Cataya, founder and CEO of JSA. And I'm Queen Perrion, executive vice president at JSA and we are here to bring you the latest and greatest from around the world of tech, telecom and data centers. That's right Dino. So let's go ahead and get us started. Okay we'll do Jay and it looks like the hiring theme from last month is picking right up where it left off. Definitely definitely and it's not shocking at all. You know what we've seen is so much expansion news. We have infrastructure bills. We have facility expansion. So we also need the people power, right? So business is getting done. Absolutely. Okay so to go ahead and get things started, Light River has hired former Sienna executive Scotty Benda as chief product officer. Now number one, Scotty Benda sounds like a famous person. The first time I read his name out loud, I was just like, I want this dude's name. Anyway they have hired him as chief product officer. The appointment further maximizes market opportunities while accelerating its growth through increased scale scope and scope across all operations. Yeah and Scotty was a big deal at Sienna. So it's a really great get. Really great get. Good job Light River. Good people. Scotty Benda. Seriously, that's a great name. Absolutely. All right and moving on to the next question. So in October, also in Volta president James Buie was recently appointed CEO of the company, which we love. He now holds the title president and CEO to lead the company into its new phase of growth. Yeah and Buie succeeds current CEO and in Volta founder Bruce Lerman who will transition to vice chair of in Volta's board of directors effective Yeah, we love Bruce. What a thought leader and what he's done with in Volta up to today. It's it's been an amazing run, amazing group of people, amazing company and I'm sure I'm sure James he's got big, big shoes to fill but I'm sure especially as he was president right in step with Bruce for so long it's going to be a great transition. Okay and less than two weeks after announcing the addition of Jackie Steinberg as channel chief, Dart points has appointed Charles Carlos as general manager of the Midwest. Carlos will help customers benefit from Dart points extensive infrastructure in the Midwest. You know I love a good Midwest story. Anyway sticking with Dart points for a hot second, the company also announced that it will provide the University of South Carolina with a custom software defined data center solution which replaces the university's current data center and will significantly improve its IT agility. Software defined data centers. This is a relatively new thing for me and a really cool thing to be talking about so hopefully we'll hear more about that. Especially to that higher education market really great. And talking higher education, I love my city of Boston, a tough grad myself. So let's talk big news ringing out of Boston. Global telecommunication software and service provider NetNumber has now announced the separation of its business lines to form two new powerful companies. We've got NetNumber Global Data Services and Titanium Software. That's right NetNumber credits this strategic move to an explosive growth period and the evolution of its independent solution portfolios. The separation allows each company the ability to flourish individually with focused missions to meet complex security and evolving market demands. All of that to say that the two the big pulling apart makes each entity that much more effective. So congratulations NetNumber. Yeah I know in those guys there too it's a one plus one equals three situation. Really really great people great products from both lines of businesses and it makes sense that they do that under separate brands. All right so back to hiring. This is a big one Dino. A rep powerhouse data centers has just added two key players to its leadership team and that is really to fuel the powerhouse data centers deployment of next gen data center growth in northern Virginia hot spot there. Jamie this is what we like to call a two fur in the industry. Did you just come up with that? Two fur? A rep congratulations. Luke Kipfer hopefully I'm pronouncing that right has been named vice president of data center development and construction and Jarrett Applebee to data center strategy consultant and senior advisor. So congrats to A rep and to Luke and to Jarrett. Yeah yeah Luke and Jarrett top industry vets very cool very cool. So yes congrats A rep you've got an all star lineup there. Now jumping from team expansion to business expansion again those two hand in hand data bank our fabulous data bank team recently announcing the completion of its data center expansion in hot Lana. Yeah hot Lana that's right the expansion adds over 22,000 square feet of data center space resulting in total capacity of more than 44,000 square feet of white space and an increased total raised floor space of 72,000 square feet. Wow yeah yeah talking numbers QTS data centers recently acquired 200 acres acres and it's Richmond mega data center campus for expansion that could encompass up to 240 megawatts across one and a half million square feet of additional capacity. Wow these things are mega mega data centers right. That's right that's right and our friend our friend Vinay Nagpal it was quoted as saying in order for the business to succeed in our modern age the digital world has to be accessible and operational 24 seven we have developed a rock solid infrastructure with resiliency and diversity as top of mind that's from our friend and co-founder of QTS Richmond NAP and president of our favorite publication one of our favorite publications Intriglobix that's Vinay Nagpal Yes QTS Richmond now absolutely Vinay a fabulous thought leader in our space so many years and and now co-founder of QTS so I feel like Vinay is everywhere. He is absolutely absolutely and he has been for as long as I can remember so good peeps to know it was actually it was Tim Kaiser former or founder and former CEO of and Marietta 56 Marietta thank you Colio ATL Colio ATL who introduced me to Vinay many many Jamie this might have been like the first or second year that I actually worked at JSA so it was very very long time Vinay is everywhere yeah everywhere talking everywhere DR Fortress now expanding its global partner network to be everywhere with the addition of TBI the nation's leading technology services distributor y'all know TBI TBI now partners all their partners TBI partners have new access to DR Fortress's data center co-location neutral connectivity and cloud solutions in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands good place to be yeah I could really use access to Hawaii in the Pacific Islands yeah tell me about it absolutely Jamie don't you live in Southern California the Pacific Ocean and nearby okay so let's let's go ahead and move on yeah good point but we won't we won't harken that I'll bet it's terrible there in Southern California right now oh yeah it's terrible to have perfect weather every day I mean I lose this conversation people like it's so cold here and I'm like I just gonna be quiet anyway um let's talk 5G talk about a transition as you know Dino in the years to come 5G adoption is going to be so amazing driving cool new advancements in so many different sectors like healthcare manufacturing entertainment robotics automotive energy sports broadcasting I love agriculture we're gonna drop that one in and so much more yeah absolutely it's gonna touch like every facet of every business and every you know even even how we how we live and we work and we play and all that good stuff but 5G provides lots of benefits including ultrafast speeds expanded data center expanded data capacity greater network reliability and enhanced user experiences all that to say that you should head on over to 1623 Farnham's website and download its latest 5G infographic for a detailed look at why next gen innovation like 5G needs the edge again head on over to uh 1623 farm website to uh to download that infographic oh I love that I always love a good infographic and on 5G you know it's it really is so cutting edge and talking innovation we should uh segue now over to the port authority of New York and New Jersey I don't know about you but um the folks that do the path um port authority in New York New Jersey they actually have an impressive history you might not be following but let me tell you it gets it dates back to 1876 when construction of this rail system first began and now thanks to a strategic partnership between global internet inter exchange gix as well as our friends over at Highland there's a new innovative technology underway for this heavy rail rapid transit system jimmy that was a mouthful I'm glad that you're able to get that out um that's but that's right uh a metro dark fiber network build via the port authority trans Hudson path that's acronym path tunnel will make gix the first carrier neutral dark fiber company to construct a Hudson river crossing in over 20 years and gix has selected our friends as jimmy said at Highland as its contractor for the new fiber network which will run between 60 Hudson and 165 Halsey so a lot we're dropping a ton of names in this bit of news but you can see where that coefficient cooperation all that stuff is happening right there in uh in New York City and in New Jersey yeah 60 Hudson 165 Halsey imperative into connection right there but also an amazing partnership between gix and Highland I love that as well which brings me to another great partnership light river and independent data solutions or IDS these two companies now have partnered together to provide optical network management for organizations in Australia and New Zealand that's right this first of a kind partnership is the result of IDS's focus on making complex technology simple I like that ensuring that businesses can keep their eye on what matters most I love that let there be more light uh so our in other news light specific light path executives will discuss why both diversity and density are important to carriers and enterprises in an upcoming virtual lunch and learn opportunity on august 4th just around the corner yeah I always get excited about those those 30 minute like virtual events especially the ones with the the great lineups including our friend Phil Olivero at like path he's their CTO can't wait to see that one yes I love Phil yay Phil and he's such a great speaker he can talk about anything I tune in seriously um and I I love that we're talking also about the importance of quality network which again another great transition here we go guys to talk about extinet systems one of our newest jsa clients we're very excited um and they just announced some great news as well uh they will now provide circuit of the america's coda that um that arena with new 5g cellular and a private wireless network infrastructure yeah that's a great story and extinet welcome to jsa we love having you um extinet will be expanding both cellular coverage and capacity throughout the coda complex enhancing its radio network coverage as well as upgrading existing fiber infrastructure now that's one way to see a formula one race those cars are fast as is the extinet network oh i like that yes yes yes and you know what there's over 400 thousand fans that attend the formula one grand prix at coda so um yeah lots of folks going to be excited about uh that additional network and and ability to cover such a great event absolutely and so now we move from network enhancements for fans those people going to watch the cars go around uh to keep financial players from fans to finance with nova financial networks i feel like i'm writing a commercial for them love fans to finance okay nice transition just you know i love that one um you must be thinking of course about an ova's new news which now delivers a nova financial networks now delivers its proprietary wireless platform from mawa new jersey direct to ny4 located at 755 sikakis new jersey exactly and of course this mawa i always messed that word up but i think i'm getting it right mawa to sikakis corridor is key as it interconnects leading financial services and trading in in ecosystems and is of critical importance for us equity price liquidity and discovery interesting very interesting yes key key channel there um good to see um that um our our friends over at an ova are all about it all right it is a wartime guys channel vision magazine has now recognized zenlayer as a winner in the 2022 visionary spotlight awards or vsa of course we all know annual vsa's highlight both channel and service provider innovation and communication so that's a big one for zenlayer right absolutely zenlayer was named a spotlight award winner in the emerging markets deployment category highlighting the provider's commitment to high performance computing and interconnectivity at the edge so congrats to the gang over there at uh at zenlayer and it truly is award season i know myself and a lot of the other jsaers we are uh kind of heads down making sure that we're putting the uh the best best possible proposals together for some of these awards right now and you know what that also brings us to our own jsa marketing team cranking out some some great prestigious awards i'm really excited to announce that jsa us we have been named to the prestigious ink magazine's best workplaces list the renowned list of america's best places torque yeah and you know who are we to argue with ink right i mean if they're going to tell us we're one of the best places to work then we we got to believe them right because you got to go with that yeah after 11 years for me personally i i think that they're probably on to something but you know we'll we'll definitely take their word for it yeah 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