 Welcome to JSA TV the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals I'm Barb Mitchell coming to you live today from the floor of PTC 23 in sunny Waikiki, Hawaii and joining me here today Is Anna Claiborne CTO Chief Product Officer and co-founder at Packard fabric. So thank you. You almost got that all I commend you a lot. Thank you We rehearsed that at a time. Yeah, and it's so great to to have you here and great show so far It's been a busy week. What's your it has been a very busy week? I gave a talk the other day and you know, I kind of I I ran here and I managed to make it here Yeah, I think this is the first thing I've genuinely been on time for oh, yeah Everyone here should feel very honored I was very on time for the live interview here And and so I know that it's an especially big event for for you for pack of fabric and and also unit has There's some big news happening. I don't want to steal your thunder. So tell us all about it. Thank you. Thank you Yeah, so there's a merger between packet fabric and unit os So we're bringing together the automation and assets of both companies To give customers a true edge to everywhere experience And so that means that customers are going to be able to design price order and manage First mile middle mile access to cloud access to sass companies All through our amazing software tools that everybody has loved at both companies separately. We'll now be coming together. Yeah and um, we're also going to gain the capabilities of uh unit os's internet network, which is as 1828, which is a truly Amazing amazing network. It's very it's very extensively peered. It's got great connectivity and reach and we're going to be adding some really fantastic automation capabilities to Make it even easier to now buy the internet or to actually make it so you can buy the internet on the internet I've always found it very ironic that the one thing you can't get on the internet is transit or really any network capabilities at all Yeah, well, this is I mean, obviously this is big news and I will say, you know, it's been I've been You know, obviously out and about as we all have here at pgc and it's it's been You know people are buzzing about this. It's being talked about and so that's good, right? That's I like that Yeah, yeah, I like being talked about this is great. Yeah in a good way so You know talk and you you hint illiterate a little bit in terms of the offerings of You know the different of both companies, but what does this really mean for the industry? You know So I mean in the in the bigger picture here What this means is that we're going to be really truly the first fully automated carrier network And so that means all the capabilities that Customers would typically look for whether you need, you know, internet access from the data center Whether you need dia from like your office locations If you need hybrid cloud multi cloud If you want to more closely peer with your sass providers to get better application performance All of that capability is going to be available with just a couple clicks button clicks or through an api And so in terms of You know the the 10,000 foot This is pretty revolutionary because the one thing that telecom has never done is really step Into the modern age of software and software as a service And so that's what um, you know, I like to look at it that we're modernizing an entire industry. Yeah Amazing. Yeah. Well, and so I you know, it's Good time for this it feels like it's the start of a new year Right and and we're here as an industry together and everyone's sort of thinking about what's what's ahead For the industry but for their own organizations and for the partnerships that are being built and fostered and and furthered here And and so what do you see for the next day? I sense it's going to be a busy time, you know But what is the next sort of short term and then longer term look like for you? Uh in the in the in the short term right now. I mean obviously, you know merging companies is a thing It does it does require some time and attention But we're going to put very heavy emphasis on our product set because It's really changing the way that people are buying it's allowing enterprises to go from having to expend a lot of capital on On network, you know to buy network equipment do the big hardware purchases the circuit provisions all that and convert that into an op-ex model and so the more The more efficiently that we get those products out there and into consumers hands the better off everybody is So it's going to be a lot of heavy That's you know, a very long way of saying that it's going to be a lot of very heavy product focus And making sure that we're really rolling things out on the product roadmap. Yeah, well well congratulations I mean this is thank you great news and You know, yes, like we said a lot a lot still to do I'm sure but So many great benefits for for your customers and for the industry and so, yeah Congratulations again And so is there anything else before we wrap that you just want to make sure our viewers I keep saying not everyone's as lucky as we are to be here So not everyone gets to meet with you in person, you know this week, but for those who who can't Well, I am pretty fun if you Yeah, right so, uh Well, I guess my talk was yesterday. So I can't tell people to come to my talk anymore All right. Yeah, but one of the things that I would highly recommend that everyone out there do Is check out our website to actually look out Look at the announcement. So that's packet fabric.com. We are retaining the packet fabric name. So It's great that we get to reuse all of our existing marketing material. We're saving We're saving the planet right one one treat a time there. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yeah, and so please stop by our website You can register to try the product out You can also register to talk to a sales person and you can read more about all of our capabilities there And you can also go to our docs. We have docs dot packet fabric dot com Which contains all of our api documentation our knowledge base Which really goes extensively into our capabilities of how you actually connect, you know, do hybrid cloud do multi cloud And because uh, one of the things that we ran into at least early on less less so now people are growing more Comfortable with the software model for network. So nasa network as a service, which we call nas Um, but at first, you know, there's definitely hesitancy like this can't be real And you know, they'd have to actually see it to believe it. So you can always get a demo too Great. Thank you so much. And thank you so much for sharing your news here with us today and for joining us Yeah, thank you for having me. It's been great. Of course anytime. Yeah anytime and thank you viewers for tuning in to jsa tv Coming to you live today from ptc 23 We'll talk to you next time. Happy networking Bye