 Hey everybody, hey guys out there in the world of telecom and data centers It's the first day of May brand new month means another edition of JSA's fast-forward where we bring you all the biggest headlines from JSA's own industry source telecom news now I'm Jamie Scott, okay. See you and founder of JSA Happy May Day Jay Happy May Day Dean. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm Dean Perine executive vice president at JSA Thanks for joining us as we broadcast live online via LinkedIn and YouTube through our very own JSA TV newsroom April was a very exciting month with lots of big announcements. However, I'm gonna I would bank on this There's one piece of news that is probably near in dear to your heart. Is that right Jay? Yes, you know it You know a dino this month. We are so excited. We announced the upcoming second installment of Greener data our Amazon best-selling book series. Yeah, did you get a little sound in the background? I love that Yeah, I was I was putting some beats together. Yeah, you're like beatboxing Am I that cool or 80s? I don't know. I don't know what it is But in the meantime, we should also say you can check out a teaser chapter chapter one dropping Available right now on greener data net. That's right. And if you are heading to ITW later this month And I know that you are we'd love to invite you to the greener data meeting of the minds panel and Cotail party. Yeah, I'm super excited about that We are moderating this panel called getting to greener data actionable insights from sustainability leaders That is with Jeff barber from bloom energy Kim. Ganylius from Vern global Finland Michelle moran from in Volta Dean Nelson, of course I mason's and Cato digital and data center enthusiast my friend Melissa really Elliot so Unbelievable panel all stars around the world too and immediately afterwards like you said cocktails greener martini used to say the least Yeah sustainability soiree if you will gathering the greener data minded Community for cocktails and conversations. So RSVP. We should put the RSVP link like somewhere here Yeah, we should also take a lot of pictures of those green martinis and see what what kind of comments we get about those Big news in Dean And if you want to learn more as Jay said you can check out greener data net but enough about us Let's get to the headlines. Let's do it. Let's do it We'll be covering all the most important news this month guys broken into different categories Just so you know, we keep it moving along because we can go off course Let's be honest. Anyway to introduce each category of news. We'll be asking each other trivia questions Oh Lord, get up the greener martini is already and Some easy some hard we're mixing it up. Are you ready? Do you know? I am as I'm ever gonna be Jay. What's our first category? Oh, you know it geography feeling confident You already know the answer to this no, I am absolutely not feeling confident In the geography category, but I may need some luck for this. Oh, you know it. Good luck. Good luck, my friend I will throw a virtual horseshoe at you. No, not at you your way Jay throwing horseshoe for people is never a good idea. You know, right? Noted, okay So shall we all right what here's the question? What is the longest river in the United States I Think that this is easy m-i-s-s-i s-i-p-p-i the Mississippi the mighty Mississippi River final answer Did anyone spell check him? I think he got it right Here's my spell check. No, no impressive with your spelling, but the correct answer Missouri River my friend Missouri River Really, I honestly was I was overly confident Well, I mean honestly that would have been my guess to it's a good one, but apparently Missouri is the Longest second longest is Mississippi. So you were a second, right? Interesting well, you can't say that the best for the JSA fast forward isn't also an educational program because here We are learning about the Mississippi River. You sure can't And the reason we're talking about geography family, so we're tying it all back in here we go There is a bunch of news that we need to still cover involving new locations in the industry You know in this industry it's all about location location location. So let's cover some geography another way Let's start with Externet who just opened a new headquarters in Frisco, Texas. That's right Frisco, Texas It's a 37,000 square foot location right in the middle of its major clients and industry partners there in Texas Congratulations Externet move in where all those OTT's are fleeing California and going there. So good move Externet There's also another grand opening With our friends over at edge connects guys this past month They announced a third facility in Israel Israel expecting to be operational third quarter of this year bringing seven and a half New megawatts to the market. Yeah, congratulations to our friends at edge connects and one last piece of Geography news Cummings Cummings comes from BDX who broke ground on a new data center in Jakarta in Denizia valued at a hundred and fifty million. That's right a hundred and fifty big ones And they need and in US dollars and the data center will provide 15 megawatts of capacity So congratulations to our friends at BDX I love that we just circled the world they are from Texas to Israel to Jakarta like See you knew that because you obviously know more about geography than I do You should just be glad I didn't ask you about the longest river in Indonesia I am very very glad about that. But anyway, Jay, let's go ahead and move on. We're gonna move on to our next category Which is Products you got an easy one There was a bunch of new products and services hitting the market last month that we want to highlight So let's go ahead and kick things off with a trivia question about Consumer products. I mean consumer products pretty broad really so I'm not sure how lucky I'm feeling right now But yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Okay. I honestly, you know, I don't know if a subscription of the Bloomberg or something. Yeah, the Bloomberg or whatever Anyway, here it comes in the US The Sherwin-Williams company is the largest producer of what products? Sherwin-Williams producer of the largest producer of what products? Okay, um, maybe diapers or tires or tennis balls Jamie you get one guess. What's your guess? Candles, paperclips, washing machines, light bulbs. Okay, the correct answer Jamie is paint Apparently they have over 1700 paint colors. Sherwin-Williams makes a lot of paint, a lot of colors. I bet the most popular choice is just plain old white out of all those 1700 paint colors. I'll bet you're right. I'll bet white is the most popular choice, but alas, let's go ahead and move this conversation on Let's get to some of the great new network and data center products and services that hit the market this month We can start with net number. It seems like net number is in the news. That's a lot of n words Net number is in the news all the time these days, but anyway new product from net number who launched a new Validation service called new Mary check. That's a new Mary check. Yep. I got I think I got that right They say it's the most comprehensive solution for combating communications fraud for mobile networks So new Mary check new product from net number for fraud on mobile networks very very cool stuff Wow, and I love that and new Mary check well said well said okay moving on to our friends our family over at 1623 Farnam Launching a new channel partner program based out of Omaha, Nebraska right at channel partners happening right now Aim with their new program to help customers find the resources they need through increased collaboration Love those guys by the way love this new channel partners that they're rolling out. Yeah me too I absolutely adore the folks over there at 1623 but in other news about new stuff consolidated communications launched a new campaign around their Phidium Fiber product a fiber internet for residential and small business customers the really really cool thing about and I had on my My groovy little fingers and this campaign a little bit What is really really great about this campaign Jay is that it is less about Fiber internet and I everything that we could say about that and really more about the opportunity that having a Fiber-based internet service in some of these more rural, you know under our you know underserved markets The opportunities that it brings with regard to health care and and employment and all kinds of things so it's very very cool Cool kind of product campaign going on over there at consolidated Yeah, no, I love Phidium fiber this whole product roll out and I know our teams have been working So hand-in-hand there but that whole fiber rollout has been so cool All right, and I'm not going to comment on why your fingers are grubby, but moving on Nicest most business-like sense of grubby weird but moving on Some new services this past month came in the form of new network routes guys We always love this type of news and this was the case for bandwidth IG who launched their third This is part of three here right their third dock fiber route in the San Francisco Bay area very cool to our friends at bandwidth IG and other new construction news console connect just Just launched a new access port to make its on-demand connectivity available to a larger customer base So congratulations to console connect. Oh, I love it. I love it. I love it Oh, and I should say before we wrap up this category move to the next We actually have folks listening in and I appreciate that so thanks for the comments coming up in the right side and Our dear friend Mary did include the RSVP link right there guys for our big ITW meeting of the mind Is any question of to whether or not this is a live broadcast? Live broadcast yes those who are interested in what a greener martini would might taste like All right, so moving on from our project category guys into hiring news which includes some new faces and new roles So the trivia question going to be about roles this one for you Dino. Are you ready? No Rolls I can you give me a hint J Movie roles Okay Okay, I might have a shot at this one. Yeah, you're kind of a movie guru movie and music is like your thing. That's true Yeah, please okay Who plays the role of the British Prime Minister in the 2003 Christmas film love actually? Okay, I have seen I prom I have seen like bits of this movie like just like little bits of it over the last probably decade Christmas classic now I know I know I know I'm gonna go with Sylvester Stallone What do you know? It's Hugh Grant Hugh Grant, of course, he should be playing the British Prime Minister naturally Okay, Stallone Prime Minister Hugh Grant is maybe Rambo I don't know I would definitely pay some money to see Hugh Grant as Rambo. Yeah, right me too now There is a movie for a certain panache to the role. I think yes All right, so what are we talking about again, I don't know sure okay rolls right We've got some new roles in our headlines this month guys So much of the news coming from Archtop who announced Kathy Kirchner as their new VP of Operations and John Balukos as the new VP of business services So congratulations both Kathy and John and of course Archtop for such great talent Yeah, yeah, I mean that's a bit of a coup to get two of those big heavy hitters in the industry to come on over to Archtop which really only got officially underway like a year and a half ago So congratulations there and more hiring news came from bandwidth IG as Patton Lockridge became the company's first chief revenue officer. So congrats to all including including Hugh Grant And you know what chief revenue officer I'm hearing that role a lot these days So something for other companies to consider it's huge deal All right, I'm in need of another trivia question. What's what's our next category? All right the next the next one is Awards news. So the trivia question is going to be around awards. So here we go So you Jay each year since 1993 the coveted TS Elliott prize has been awarded for what? Okay, well, I really I'm kind of excited that she gave me this press this present of a question because I Had a like crush on TS Elliott in my college years because Just kind of shows you what kind of dork I really was but I you know, I'm a writer at heart as many of you know and so TS and I have had My guess as an award for poetry Yes, well done that is exactly right Just for that, I'm going to give you the JSA fast-forward trivia award for the month. Congratulations. Oh By the way, I think I think we're doing pretty good. I'm gonna display that proudly on my fireplace Or in my fire Probably display that in my fire Let's move on to some industry award news We'll start off with connect base who were named one of America's best startup employers for 2023 by none other than Forbes magazine so congratulations to our friends over there at connect base Love it Forbes. All right other award news coming ahead here I see a taupe was shortlisted for business clouds and viral tech 50 ranking for 2023 this ranking of course recognizes the UK's most innovative companies Creating sustainability technology to protect the environment. We love that here at JSA. I see a taupe Yep, congratulations. There are final two pieces of award news Both come from in Volta first Jim Buie in Volta's president and CEO was named to the I love this award the Titan 100 list Which is a program to recognize top executives for leadership vision and passion. We love that Secondly in Volta senior vice president Michelle Moran Was named among the top 25 women in technology by mission critical magazine So congratulations to both Jim and Michelle very cool stuff going on over there at in Volta I'm gonna leak a little something here that in Volta is really Really a great part of greener data volume, too. So I didn't say that allowed yet We haven't we haven't officially released that news but Jim writing a chapter and of course Michelle on that panel at I2W I was just mentioning. Oh, here's something to our scoopy But yes, anyway, that's the award season for this episode guys now We are moving on to our final character category and our final trivia question. So Dean here's your chance to like level up come Come to the cool side here. This one is all about partnerships So I'm going to ask you a question about famous duos Okay, I think I'm do let let's hear Jay As one of the most famous lawmen Duos of the American West. No, my cowboy hat. Who is Wyatt Earp's partner during the gun fight at the okay corral? Okay. Well, I've I've never seen love actually, but I have seen a few Western movies That's right. You may not know that about me, but I do enjoy a good Western Which is how I know the answer to this question Wyatt Earp and doc holiday Was played by No, it wasn't Keeper Sutherland, it was the other guy never mind I'm moving you go. I know let's see if anyone comes up with it in our in our chat here. Yeah, like Mary help us out Was it that played he did a phenomenal job being so drunk, but fabulous doc holiday guys anyway Um and congratulations Dean you are a trivia shop shooter You only needed to know the character name thankfully so trivia shop shooter you are Okay, now let's get into some other kinds of partnerships That doesn't sound right ones. Oh, wait, wait, what did folks say? That's right. Thank you. Thank you people out here and LinkedIn land. Thank you. Thank you guys. All right So, okay, let's go ahead Take off the cowboy hats put the horses in their pens whatever you want to do. All right, so We can start off with collogics guys who announced new partnerships with both AWS and IBM They brought AWS outposts for its data centers in Vancouver Also made IBM's cloud direct link available through the collogics cloud and network exchange. So giddy up guys giddy up Let's just weird partner Thank you, I've been working on that. We had another new partnership just last month with Twardex and Evocative Joining forces to bring broader faster connectivity to the Boston area Evocative's Boston data center now features Twardex as a new carrier offering a new fiber optic Corridor to their clients in the area. So congratulations to Twardex and to Evocative joining forces there. Nice job Nice job Dean. You got all those words out too sort of All right final partnership news guys it is 10 years 10 year anniversary of a partnership between LeGrand and Superior Essex Superior Essex who manufactures communication cables paired with LeGrand's joint venture called Encompass Systems to bring connectivity and cabling solutions for commercial buildings and data centers since 2013 happy Happy anniversary and We did it. That's all the big news and announcements from the month of April It looks like the trivia ended in a tie this time Jamie Okay, okay, I was gonna say still get the trophy right Yeah, we're gonna put them and and I get a medal you get a trophy we get cookies we get all that stuff, right? Oh delio Yeah, absolutely That's it for for April, but we'll be back at the end of May or early June We haven't quite decided on that in the end of May, right Jane? June 1, let's go for the first of every month so people know We'll be back in early June with another episode of fast-forward with another batch of industry headlines And oh my gosh, and I'm looking at this May calendar We've got there's so much to talk about May is shaping up to be a huge mom especially for industry events guys Yeah, you're not kidding for starters who have we've got Mobile mobile carrier show Put on by the competitive carriers Association. I know our friends at a werex will be there be there that week as well Yeah, and right now channel partners conference and expo right now in Vegas. So if you're in Vegas check it out Or go there right now JSA is already there with live streaming interviews that are being silent cast through our link our LinkedIn page JSA's YouTube channel and JSA net as well as channel partners site. So totally exciting very exciting Yeah, yeah, very exciting and we'll be doing more live interviews later in the middle of the month at ITW in Maryland. You may have heard of that show ITW international telecoms week So make sure you reach out if you'd like to schedule an interview. Yeah, I'll be there I'll be stepping out in person there my Yep Speaking of JSA TV guys if you missed our coverage last week at data cloud in old Monaco You can still watch all these interviews on the JSA TV YouTube channel. So go ahead and check it out. Yeah Wow, so much happening so much so much, you know it. Yep. Yeah, okay So we'll see you we'll see you next month everyone if not sooner and so long everyone stay safe safe traveling and happy networking