 JSA Fast Forward, thanks for joining us as we broadcast from JSA TV Newsroom live to LinkedIn and YouTube. Yeah, and we are here guys to bring you all the latest and greatest from the world of tech and telecom. Straight from the pages of Telecom News Now blog. I'm Dean Perine, Executive Vice President at JSA and joining me is a woman who needs no introduction. Jamie Scato-Cataya, the founder and CEO of JSA. My friend, my mentor, my boss, Jamie. As always, we are reporting from bright and sunny dog days of summer. It is August 1st and it truly is the dog days now, right? No doubt, no doubt, Dino. Fresh cut grass. We've got water balloons around here, baseball games. Just a fantastic time of year. It is a fantastic time of year. So, Jamie, let's talk a little bit about summer foods. What are your favorite summer foods? Good question, Dino. Okay, so, love corn in the cob, watermelon, and oh, well, chocolate ice cream. Anyone who knows me knows chocolate ice cream. I love ice cream, too. All terrific choices. But today's broadcast will be a tribute to the most classic American summer food of all, the humble hot dog. Gotta love it. That's right. We've got a telecom and data center news dog that will dress up with the mustard of new construction, new partnership, ketchup, new product relish, info, drop onions, and even some spicy editorials to turn up the heat a little bit. Jamie, are you ready for this? I feel like I'm in a backyard barbecue already. All right, Jamie. Let's do this. Let's do this. Let's start with a classic. We can all agree on mustard. Just like mustard acts as a fundamental starting point for any well-dressed dog, no telecom and data center news report would be complete without talking about some exciting new routes and facilities. You got your bottle of mustard ready, Jamie? What do you like? Plain vanilla or plain mustard or spicy? What do you like? Kind of plain, I think. But the way I see it, new fiber routes are like a hot brown mustard and a little flair. New facilities are like a smooth Dijon that brings together all the flavors. Jamie, that analogy is way, way out there, but I couldn't agree more, so let's go ahead and get this thing started. Let's do it. You know, I pay him, so he has to say, sure, okay, I agree. Sorry. All right, so to the news, guys, our first new route appears in Orange County. We love it down here, where Cityside Fiber has expanded the network footprint into Dana Point, California. The network is anticipated to be live later this summer and Cityside Fiber has plans to branch out to more cities in Orange County, which will be announced in upcoming months, so get ready, guys, to decide taking over the OC. Very cool. Another exciting new network popped up this month in the Xtel Center, the home arena of the NHL's Minnesota Wild. American Tower announced, yeah, Minnesota Wild, right? American Tower announced the upcoming deployment of a state-of-the-art desk solution that will bring 5G technology to the arena just ahead of the team's new season this fall. American Tower shoots and scores with this one, Jamie. Ooh, I like this. All these sports analogies, just my thing. Yeah, let's talk about ice creams some more, should we? Actually, please. All right, guys, speaking of new availability, I am critical announcement of availability in its new Miami facility this month. The facility spans 50,000 square feet, features five megawatts of available power, and they're hoping the Miami campus could help bolster next-gen technology and what has typically been a very constrained market. So, all power to them. Thank you very much for that, Jamie. And one more dab of mustard on our telecom dog in the form of expansion news from ConnectBase. They announced a new $16 million loan to grow its global quoting API system. This is hot on the heels of another $22 million in investor funding. So, it sounds like things are really taking off over there. ConnectBase. Yep. Cookin' with gas, yep, or colds if you're outside in your backyard. Anyway, our final bit of construction news comes to us from Vancouver where the Spencer Building Carrier Hotel officially began construction on their new data center in the city's Harbor Center complex. Great going, guys. They're hoping to launch at the end of next year with a renovated state-of-the-art co-location facility. Very cool. Awesome, awesome from our friends there in Vancouver. So, just to review, today we're on a mission to dress our telecom and data center news hot dog with the best toppings available. We've got new routes and facilities serving as the mustard. And now we're going to go for another classic ketchup. Not my bag, but some folks do like ketchup on the hot dogs. So, stand in for ketchup. We're going to go with industry partnerships, the ketchup on the telecom hot dog. Hot dog. Okay, so, guys, you know, when you're standing at a hot dog stand, you just know there's going to be a big red bottle of ketchup. And when you dive into telecom and data center news, you just know there's going to be some new partnerships being announced. It's inevitable. So, let's start off with some new cloud partnerships. You got it. LightPath recently announced a partnership with Microsoft Azure as part of its cloud offerings. They're calling it cloud connect express route and it consists of direct connectivity to Microsoft Azure at their locations in New Jersey, Virginia and Florida. That's right, that's right. And on a similar note, EdgeConnect announced the deployment of AWS and their Phoenix data center as part of their partnership with Amazon Web Services. The direct connection available in both 10 gigs and 100 gig capacity. Yeah, congratulations to EdgeConnect. Continuing on with the new partnership announcements, again, to Connectbase. They recently announced that Canadian fiber provider Beanfield has joined its network platform. It's a big win for Connectbase as Beanfield owns and operates the largest fiber optic network in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. This is pretty significant, AJ. Absolutely. Yeah, sure. So the question is, do we put beans on our hot dogs? I knew you couldn't resist the beans Beanfield connection. And you know what? Some people do chili. So that's, that's the scout. Okay. Let's, but go ahead. Let's stick to ketchup for now. Yeah. Let's not upset our audience of additional list with this one. I'm feeling we have hot dog conservatives in the crowd. Yes. I think so. There's just like one ingredient that's. All right. So guys, we've got another partnership to add to the telecom and data center news hot dog coming in hot from our friends at 1623 Farnam about those guys. They are hosting the Omaha IX peering exchange, which just gained Microsoft and quilt to the ecosystem. It doesn't get much bigger than Microsoft. So that's a great news for Omaha IX. Yeah. Congratulations there, Jamie. I don't know about you, but if we, if we can say telecom news hot dog on every fast forward, I would not have any problem with that at all. I'm thinking we're going to really increase the amount of listeners. I'm pretty sure. I think so, especially if we can make this happen around lunchtime. I'm so hungry right now. Me too. Okay. But back to the news. Our last partnership announcement is a different kind of partnership, but an important one. Nonetheless, in Volta appointed a new executive vice president of manufacturing, John Kehoe. I believe that's how he pronounces his last name. His job will be to expand in Volta's mission critical IT solutions and security services to their clients in the manufacturing sector. So congratulations to John over there at in Volta. I love that news. All right, guys. That's two down mustard and ketchup. First new builds and then new partners. So Dean, what's up next? My friends, we are sticking with the classics so far. One mainstay in the world of telecom and data center news is new products and services. Today we're calling that the relish. You know, I can really go for relish on a dog right now. I'm hungry. I'm starving right now. I'll go for two hot dogs. But anyway, Jay, I do hear you on this, but most hot dog relish is sweet. And I, and I'm not really down with sweet relish, but what I always want is a nice dill relish or here in the Chicago land area. We like the dill pickles on our hot dogs. So that's kind of a sacred combination. The hot dog mustard dill pickles, like tomato sometimes that and celery, celery salt. So now I'm starving actually. No, there is definitely a market for celery salt. All right. So I'm just not a fan. I guess of sweet pickles, but anyway, let's use dill relish on our telecom and data center dog today. Moving forward. Okay. Telecom hot dog. So, so glad we could come to some consensus on this, Jamie. What kind of new product and service announcements are we serving as our relish today? Well, you know what? We got a couple. So that means two big scoops of relish. Man, I hope it comes with that special little spoon that they have at the hot dog carts. You know, the really long ones that are all twisty. Wait, what? Okay. Never mind. But you know what? Okay. In Chicago land, we at the hot dog carts, there's a long spoon and it's all twisted. The whole idea of a hot dog is you can eat it with your hands. Now you got a spoon. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, cyberspace. I need you to help me out. Please vindicate me in the comments. If you know what I'm talking about, the long yellow spoon, let's get interactive on this. Shall we? There's a long spoon in the jars. It's kind of a twisted spoon. Let's go ahead and run through the two announcements and then see if anyone else is as crazy as us. Yes. Okay, deal. Jay, it's all yours. All right. The first one is from Vertec who announced a new cybersecurity solution called FlexMDR. They are MDR or managed detection and response is backed by a remote SOC, DevSecOps and cloud resources. They say the new service offers unparalleled protection and are excited to offer this new cybersecurity solution to all clients. We love to hear a good cybersecurity solution. Oh, hey. Thanks, guys. We've got to comment the hot dog cart condiments. Oh, I'm so off on that. Oh, oh, yay. Folks are loving it. Thank you, guys. We have listeners. This is exciting. Whether or not they're talking about that little spoon or not, I'm going to go with being vindicated on the weird spoon at the hot dog cart. But next up is Bloom Energy, a leading provider of alternative energy solutions. They unveiled something called a series 10 this month, a new solution for data centers to procure and utilize power. The offering is a 10 megawatt fuel cell. Very cool stuff here. A 10 megawatt fuel cell with a five-year flat rate contract shipped in 50 days. That sounds innovative to me. It absolutely does. Well done. Can't wait to watch that play out. Oh, play out, play ball. We have ketchup, relish, mustard, done. What's next? Telecom hot dog. How about some onions, Jay? Cooked a raw. I feel like raw is most typical, but I do love caramelized onions on just about anything. Agreed, agreed, agreed. What kind of telecom and data center news are onions? Okay. Are you ready for this? The onions are new info reports because they have layers. Onions have layers. Our new info reports also have layers. Bravo, Dino. You know, I wasn't really sold on this whole hot dog theme, I gotta say, but you know, coming around, coming around. That's the spirit captain. Thank you. What kind of stuff has come out this month that the people should know about, Jay? Oh, well, first off, in Volta, again, we need to mention in Volta, releasing their inaugural ESG report. It covers everything from environmental responsibility to employee well-being to best governance practices. What a great bar to set for others in the industry. Great job in Volta. Absolutely, absolutely. We've also got a different kind of report from Mutare, who released the results of their second annual voice network threat survey. They pulled more than 300 cybersecurity and information technology professionals and pulled together some very interesting info on the topic of business phone systems. I think we may even have a QR code on your screen right now to go to that survey and have a look for yourself. Yes, definitely, definitely. Screen that, screen that. Speaking of surveys, here we are. MDC data centers currently running a data center industry survey right now. Yup, that's that this way. Okay. That QR code. Thanks, guys, at home for following along with us. So this survey participants can win $100 just for filling it out. So free money, guys, all day long here. Go ahead and check it out, mdcdatacenters.com. Okay. Our dog is pretty well dressed, Jamie. The only thing left is editorials. To me, think pieces are sort of like a little dash of spice to our TNN blog. So I'm going to suggest that the editorials are jalapeños and maybe a little sriracha. I do love spice. So anything you can do to spice up a hot dog, I'm all for it. Have a little bit of banana peppers. Perfection, Jay. Absolutely. I would go with banana peppers all day long. Again, this is one of those things he's like, sure boss, sure. Okay, but oh gosh, guys, you're just getting away. I love that. All right. We had a few great editorials this month, not the least of which came from DC Bytes, managing director William King. He wrote a really fun piece guys about London as a data center market, including established and emerging network clusters. Very cool. And don't forget our very own Joe Marquez Lima, who wrote not one, but two articles this month that we're getting lots of clicks. The first covers AI very, very popular topic right now in the European data center market. And the second is about Portugal's growing subsea cable market opportunities. If you're interested in the EMEA data center market, then both are worth your time. Have a look. Totally great. Well, it sounds like we've whipped up a pretty tasty summertime news dog, a telecom hot dog. I love it. If I do say so myself, Jamie, is there anything else we needed to talk about today? Actually, there's one big cherry on top. I'd like to out wait. That's too mixed metaphor. I feel like no one wants cherries and hot dogs. It's like, you know, but, but I can't help it. There's one more thing. There's one more thing. Okay. I think I know where we're going with this. Right. Do you? Well, for me, the cherry on top of our telecom and data center news this month is actually two things. First, I'm really excited. We did a virtual round table on Thursday. I'm going off script guys. Be careful. But it, it was amazing. It was our own JSA or Candace Sipo's doing her first inaugural moderation. But she moderated a phenomenal panel, including connect base on connecting the unconnected. And we're up to 18,000 views on this video. Jamie, that's crazy good. I'm really, really just so excited. So proud of the great content getting out there, empowering us all, educating us, hopefully collaboration. Let's connect. Let's connect the peeps guys. So I'm really excited about this, but also second piece of this, another cherry. So two cherries here. JSA has also won very prestigious 2023 Bulldog PR award for best, best industry focused agency. I know. And this is a second time guys, we're proud to win this award for the second time. And it's something to be the best in our industry, but to be the best industry focused agency. That's pretty over the moon. So thank you. Thank you guys. Everyone for your, your hard work and thank you for your support and love. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. A well earned award captain. What a summer we've had already. And it's just the initial dog day, the telecom hot dog day of summer. So thanks for joining JSA's fast forward here in the dog days of summer. Now go on out and get that grill fired up. And don't forget the iced tea or Long Island iced tea. If you so wish. And as always guys, happy networking.