 Hello and welcome to Capacity Middle East Extra, powered by JSA. That's us. I'm Dean Perine of JSA and we are coming at you live from Capacity Middle East at the luxurious, I would call this hotel pretty luxurious, the Grand Hyatt Dubai and I'm here with Mr. Doug Makishima. Doug is the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Summit Tech. Doug, welcome to JSA TV. How are you, how are you doing? I'm doing great, fighting the jet lag but glad to be here Dean. This is one of my favorite cities in the region and the world actually so happy to be here. The best part about the jet lag to me Doug is that I know that everyone else is kind of or at least 50% of the people that I'm interviewing on this is equally jet lag but for our viewers that don't already know why don't you tell them a little bit about Summit Tech? So Summit Tech is a leading vendor in the telecom space. We initially started as an e-commerce company but you know we've been in telecom for over 15 years now. We're supplying to some of the world's leading operators and OEMs are device manufacturers so we have software platforms that power some of the the world's biggest networks and today we focus on IP communications so voice video messaging but now we're moving into the kind of the new frontier everyone's talking about VR, AR, AI, Metaverse, 5G, Edge Computing. We got to talk about it all. We have the killer use case that all of the operators they really need this kind of a platform because they want to monetize their 5G networks they want to deploy what's called Edge Computing or the telco edge cloud and so we have a VR360 live streaming complete e-commerce enabled platform or application yes okay YouTube, Amazon shopping, Twitch, Instagram live that's that's streaming live streaming 1.0 live streaming shopping 1.0 or 2.0 or maybe even 3.0 at this point you heard it first today 2.0 maybe even 3.0 so that's Summit Tech very cool so speaking of very cool things I understand that you made a very significant announcement just a couple weeks ago a couple months ago that's right no no just last week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona which is the you know premier of the world's largest mobile operator mobile wireless show in the world and we made an announcement with Bridge Alliance they're the largest operator alliance in the Asia Pacific region but they also extend out now here to this region so STC actually is one of the members and so our Odian's platform that's our VR live stream 360 platform was used to do a live stream from our studio in Montreal with a music event a concert mini concert to AIS Thailand one of the member operators in Bangkok as well as Singtel in Singapore so we use their 5g networks we use their edge computing capabilities to bring this truly immersive 8k 360 experience to their subscribers and it was a first in that we had three countries two continents live stream with 8k 360 fully interactive in e-commerce enable video I love it absolutely love it so Doug why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about the event how is the event going for you you meet with new prospects new customers well you know so we've onboarded I think it's the numbers now 23 mobile operators around the world with our Odian's platform and of course two Bridge Alliance and AIS with the 22nd and 23rd at Mobile World Congress so we'd like to extend that reach here into the the region so we are already actually working with one of the operators in the UAE one of the two you'll have to guess which one congratulations thank you so we've done technical trials and now we're in the process of moving to pre-commercial trials so being here is great because you know you're connecting all of the the folks in the the operator mobile operator connectivity community in the region so it's a it's a great place to network it's great to see their perspective and hear the presentations from some of the top leaders here in terms of what are the priorities what they want to deploy what do they see as the the next new opportunities excellent Doug thanks for being here we appreciate it my pleasure thank you you bet and thank you viewers for watching we will see you soon