 Hello out there in the world of telecom, data centers and connectivity. It's the first week of a new month. That means it's time for another edition of JSA's Fast Forward where we bring you all the biggest headlines from JSA's own industry source. Check it out there on the QR code. It's telecom news now, our blog. I'm Jamie Scott-Okataya, CEO and founder of JSA. I'm Dean Perine, Executive Vice President at JSA. Thanks for joining us as we broadcast live. That's right, live online via LinkedIn and YouTube through our very own JSA TV newsroom. It's a big month here at JSA. We hosted a, don't let me forget anything, Jay. We hosted a virtual roundtable about green power, something I know that is near and dear to your heart and cooling innovation, which was a big hit plus there was a very, very big announcement about the Inc. 5000, Jamie. Yes, Inc. 5000 sure was. JSA ranked number 2931. That's 2931 on our Inc. 5000 list and I couldn't be more proud for those who don't know, the Inc. 5000 is an annual list of the fastest growing private companies here in the States. This is the third year. Yes, we're three Peters, third year in a row where we've made the cut over 60 million, something like that. Companies apply, incredible, incredible job. Huge congratulations to the entire JSA family for all your hard, hard work and of course, our clients for supporting us all these years. Yeah, three people were like the championship Chicago Bulls of tech and telecom PR marketing. But we should also mention that our friends at Dark Points were also on the list, which is a huge testament to their leadership and solutions. So very well-deserved for a friend over at Dark Points. Nice job, guys. Yes, we are in great company, pun intended. Okay, that's bad. All right, good stuff all around. Jamie, should we hit the news now? Let's do it. Okay, we've got lots of, honestly, when I was reading this earlier today, I read this as we've got lots of personal news this month. Oh. No, I don't think that's such a good one. Not what we're sharing here today. We're not going to discuss any personal news, but we do have lots of personnel news this month. There you go. Well, let's get started, Jay. It's all yours. Oh, great. Okay. First, we're going to kick it off with Isiotope who welcomed Sharif Al-Shinawi as vice president of Strategic Accounts. His focus over at Isiotope will be business development for tier one cloud service providers as well as engagement with OEMs and chip manufacturers. Way to go, Sharif. Yeah, nice job. We're going to stick with the Isiotope tip. They were also in the news this month for their win at the Mission Critical Top Tier Product Awards. They're cool. I hope I'm saying this right. They're KUL acronym. Looks like cool. Their cool extreme solution took home the thermal management category. It's a double congratulations to our friends over there at Isiotope. Congrats. Yes, indeed. Heads off to Isiotope. Moving on. We also have Zenlayer recently announcing the appointment of Craig Kaplan as your new senior vice president of sales. Craig's new job will be expanding outreach to enterprises and growing Zenlayer's revenue. So congrats, Craig. Nice job, friends. Zenlayer continuing on the new hire news. This month, Echo Sense, I think I got that right, right, Jay? Echo Sense. Yes. Introduced Raymond Burrell as... Burrell. Burrell, thank you. Raymond Burrell as senior sales executive for the company's US team. So congrats to Raymond. Yeah, and I did a JSA TV interview with him. He's awesome. And we should say that announcement comes hot on the heels of Echo Sense announcing a new partnership with Packet Power to integrate wireless monitoring solutions. So it sounds like a big news month for Echo Sense all around. It does. You said partnership with Packet Power so well. I was just like, oh, I wonder if she's gonna get through all the PDAs and you did it. You did it like a champ, Jay. So in other hiring news, BDX hired Manish Prakash as president and chief business officer. He's an experienced leader and former Microsoft executive. We've all heard that Microsoft executive who will lead many of BDX's functions across the Asia Pacific. Congrats there. And also we have more exciting executive news from Light River who announced. I love this one. Mike Jonas, new CEO of Light River. This is following the retirement of Light River's founder and first CEO, Glenn Johansson. And really, Mike has been incredible leader within Light River for many years. So bringing up from the core of the company and a man who is so customer oriented, just incredible. So new era for Light River. We're looking forward to watching. Yeah, honestly, Mike Jonas is like the mayor of Telecom City, you know what I mean? This is like everybody knows him. He knows everybody. He treats every single person as if they're a long lost friend. And I adore that about him. So awesome. Congratulations, Mike. There's also new hire news from stream data centers. They recently named Kent Watson as senior vice president and general counsel. He'll lead a range of legal requirements as well as supervising the internal legal department and outside counsel. That sounds like a lot of stuff. I know nothing about Jamie. But all good stuff. It's always great to have a really solid lawyer on your side. So well done. Yeah, yeah. That's why I've got, you know, Matlock on speed dial. You're a good lawyer, right? Good call. I've got Perry Mason. Okay, good. You know, now that it's, okay, you know, now that it's nearly fall, Jamie, I'm looking forward to being a bit more of a couch potato. Maybe I'll get really into the old school lawyer show Law and Order. This is Colombo Lawyer Show. Aren't you just, I feel like I'm moving that aside. I feel like, you know, you could want to get out there this fall, right? There's so many fun fall activities. Who doesn't love this fall? People picking, hey, Ry, it's like, get out, enjoy. Yeah, nope. Now that the kids are back in school and football is back on TV, I'm staying right here. I do. I love it. When it's cold outside and it's warm inside, I love it when there's sporting events and I love snacks. So fall is definitely my season. Well, I'm here in California. We don't really do seasons that much down SoCal. So I would love to find a corn maze, but I don't think that's a thing here. I also, anyway, yeah, my sweet Ava, our daughter won't be seeing a Scarecrow anytime soon or sipping hot cocoa by a campfire. But we still, we do faux, faux stuff. Faux, faux, faux autumn things. Faux snow, faux, faux, yeah, everything is faux snow. I think, you know, TM, let's make that happen. Anyway, okay, moving along, I'll tell you one activity that I'm sure that Uyi and I both love, and that is eating apple pie. Okay, I'm in. Yes, I figured you would. And so should we continue on with the news? I feel like we kind of drifted away into just about jumping into a pile of leaves. So yeah. Please take us out of this, Jay. Oh, me, okay, here we go. Let's get into the second half of the show, guys. Thanks for staying tuned with us as we trail off. Second half of the show with some news from Scala Data Centers, love these guys. They made some waves this month with their latest announcement, a strategic investment of approximately, oh, $80 million into its first hyperscale data center in Mexico, which is huge news. Yeah, yeah, big news. There's some other expansion news as well. This time it's from NetNumber. You've heard a lot about them on Fast Forward. The company announced that it has expanded its mobile routing solution, Carrier ID to Cameroon. That's right, Cameroon, not Kirk Cameron. Every time I see the word Cameroon, I think of Kirk Cameroon for whatever reason. That Oony's thing in me. They also onboarded several other African, European and Asia-Pacific markets, including Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, and Ghana. That, my friends, is a definition of worldwide. They're everywhere. They took over the world. We're just living in the NetNumber world. I love this. All right, well, guys, let's go ahead and move over to DF&I, who added to its Express Connect Network this month. They celebrated a partnership with DataBridge Sites, specifically within their campus in Ashburn, Virginia, who came on Net and have a really wonderful success story there. So a really great case study to check out. Congrats to DF&I. And speaking of new partners, we've also got 1623 Farnum, who recently announced that Vive Broadband, another favorite of JSA, that Vive Broadband joined their ecosystem to enrich connectivity in Nebraska. It's amazing what they're doing to turn Nebraska on further. It's amazing. Okay, our next bit of news is near and dear to my heart. Involta, oh, my love. Involta helped with the fundraiser last month for the Idaho Women in Technology Organization. It was a golf tournament called Idaho Tech Gems, Charity Golf Classic, raising, oh, $20,000 sponsored by Involta. So really wonderful, cool thing to do, which is so, so Involta. Love to hear about those philanthropic things going on within our industry. It's always awesome to hear about companies doing good deeds like that. But moving on to, nice sideway, right Jay? Moving on to some news from LeGrand. The first bit is that they unveiled a new offering. That's right. It's a new version of their Trek Busway Power Distribution system called Starline Series S. It actually sounds like a superhero to me. That's right, Starline Series S. The big announcement means that LeGrand's system now carries an IP54 Ingress Protection Rating. That's right, LeGrand's system now carries an IP54 Ingress Protection Rating. Congrats to you, our friends over there at LeGrand. And we should also mention there's a second bit of LeGrand news, which has to do with an update to their KVM switches. There's a new line of them from LeGrand called Raritan Secure Switches 4.0. And it's their most protective yet. So again, big things guys happening over at LeGrand. Yes, congratulations there. So let's shift gears now to talk about Mutare who announced this week that they've joined forces with Genesis, specifically the Genesis solution set called App Foundry. Mutare's voice traffic filter is now available through App Foundry. So even more organizations can use it to manage call center agent call flows. Love that. Okay, so our last bit of news this month comes back from like River who announced the completion of a new tech demonstration. It was a multi-vendor interoperability demonstration alongside partner Infanera. The demo is all about how to efficiently run networks that combine various vendors' equipments. The new collaboration was on display at FiberConnect this month in Florida. We did it, Jay. We got through the news. Yeah, there's a lot of difficult words to pronounce. We tried not to get through it, but alas, here we are. Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of great stuff happening in August and September. I know we're already thinking way ahead, but a lot of things happening in September and October and really through the end of the year. And we've got you guys covered. You've got JSA TV hit in the road. We will be at the Data Cloud ESG Summit in Oslo, which I'm really excited about. That's taking place September 26th, 27th, Oslo, Norway. Good kudos over to Data Cloud for doing an ESG summit. I love that. And again, JSA TV will be live on site for coverage. So make sure you tune into it. And if you're there and you want a JSA TV interview, I think we have a few spots left. So let us know. Absolutely. There's also some fun virtual events coming up. For instance, Light Path is hosting a virtual lunch and virtual lunch and learn session all about the future of seamless connectivity at 12 p.m. EDT on September 14th. Register now for a free lunch voucher. Who doesn't love a free lunch? And hold the horses, hold the, I don't know, hold everything. I'm holding it. Oh, just hold it. We cannot forget next week, Data Cloud USA, Austin, Texas. Next week, September 11th through 12th. You guys might have seen over 40,000 views on this one too, but our Know Before You Go, where we featured Data Cloud and got inside Q and A with the organizers of the event as well as their keynote, who we love. So I mean, just some great content about what type of tips as well as topics that you might wanna brush up on before you hit the show. So Data Cloud USA, guys, next week already, September 11th through 12th. Check it out. Yeah, yeah, we'll see you guys on the road. JSA TV will provide live on-site coverage at that one as well, as Jamie noted. And if you're planning to attend, make sure that you catch the, oh, the JSAs before you go briefing, everything that Jamie already talked about. Sorry, I was excited. I wanna talk to you about too. I jumped that, sorry. I would have been paying attention. I slept through that one, Jay, I'm sorry. But Know Before You Go, once more, I'm just kidding. Know Before You Go, the good thing you know before you go. So we will see you next month with another episode of Fast Forward and another batch of industry headlines, and we promise no personal information. Only personal. All right, guys, so long, everybody. Stay safe, enjoy this fabulous fall and happy networking.