 tons of news response. So let's go ahead and get croaking. I mean, cranking. Already, right, Jay? Already work to start with this? I know, sorry. Okay, so let's start with some big business news by looking at some recent mergers and partnerships going on. Starting with a first-of-a-kind agreement from NIX, that's NYIIX, Peering Exchange. They recently announced that a Japan-based cable TV operator, TCN, has joined the IX, adding a big connectivity piece to their ecosystem. We talk a lot about ecosystems these days, don't we, Jay? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I love TCN. That's pretty cool. All right, now it's time to fly from Tokyo to Texas. We are in New York, actually, right, to Texas as Data Bank announces the acquisition of four data centers in Houston, previously owned by Cirrus One. The deal adds 42 and a half megawatts of power and over 300,000 square feet of capacity to Data Bank is already amazing portfolio. 300,000. 300,000, that's like what, you know, my basic math skills, that's what, three or four football fields? Long? Maybe a little bit. I think, in fact, when I think about 300,000 square feet, I think about the 250 square foot apartment that I had in college and think that maybe these data centers are being a little greedy. Yeah, yeah, but how many racks and cabinets did you have in there? Well, actually, back then it would have been like a class five switch, so a behemoth piece of equipment there in my college dorm. College kids would not understand what we were talking about right now, however they probably do understand what it's like to eat ramen. I don't think that that never goes away, but ramen and affordability broadband provider Vive, a company near and dear to my heart has joined the FCC's affordable connectivity program. That's the FCC's ACP program and that's aimed at providing low income households across their footprint with high speed internet access. This is a pretty cool thing, Jay. It's basically, it's a government program that for qualified low income households, they essentially get a $30 broadband credit that can be applied to basic broadband services or they can actually apply that $30 to a much larger, more robust, for lack of a better term, broadband package. It's pretty cool stuff. I love that. What a great cause. Access to everyone. We really need it. So important. Another big and important partnership announcement comes out of the Midwest this month. We're talking 1623 Farnam welcoming subspace into their ecosystem as a brand new pop, point of presence carrier option for their meeting room and internet exchange. And you know what? We should say that this news coincides with 1623 Farnam's recent digital transformation FOMO campaign which they've been publicizing the benefits of Omaha as a connectivity hub. I was just checking out their infographic they put out this month and learned so much. It's really, you know, a great one too. Okay. Are you doing, Dean? Are you okay? How's your voice? It is. It is. It's dry right now. It is dry, but I feel like it sounds sexy. So I think we should, we'll keep moving on. I also do love the digital transformation fear of missing out campaign. That's pretty cool stuff by 1623. So good work. There you guys. But anyway, onward and upward, Jamie, over back to you. It's the spirit, my friend. I'm so sorry for torturing you like this. All right. Let's take a look now at some of the big construction news from last month. We can stay in the Midwest for some deployment news. Horizon announcing new fiber to the home expansions across Ohio. Hundreds of miles of fiber slated to go live later this year. Awesome. And another, another notable deployment announcement comes from three red eight who and I, and I pardon me if I'm not saying that right, three red all one word, three red and eight who is set to build the first open access fiber optic network in more than 30 years open access fiber network in more than 30 years. You heard that right. Do you want to take a guess at how many states this dark fiber will run across Jamie? Any guesses? I'm 18 states team. I cheated because I read this article before. Yeah, I forgot this is our job. Anyway, one of the few states that three red eight networks will not be touching is Massachusetts, where light path has announced a major expansion of its Boston Metro network. The new route will be able to support more than 2000 new organizations in the Beantown area, which got me thinking about Beantown. I always assumed it was because of Boston baked beans. Is that, is that correct? Is Beantown, Boston Beantown because of actual beans or for something else? Now, see, that's one I couldn't cheat on. I have no idea. Sounds right. I don't know. I have no idea, but we'll have to look at one up. Yeah, I went to college. They should know this, but anyway, let's move over to Vietnam. Hard transition, but let's go. All right. All the way over to Vietnam, where red line communications has announced they will deploy, this is so cool, virtual fiber solutions across nine remote oil and gas field locations. It's really crazy. Here's the kicker. They're all located in the South Sea. Get your scuba gear out, Dean. Jamie, you know that's out of my depth. Oh, yeah. Very, very cheesy. Okay. Well, look, as my dad, as a dad, I am allowed, and my dad would do this too, I'm allowed to make dad jokes as much as I want. But moving on to some facility expansion news, SVP has expanded its credit facility. The new construction comes on the tail of acquiring big financial backers like the Bank of Hope, Webster, and City National Bank. So they are striking while like iron is hot over there at SVP. Yeah, you got that right. And Phoenix NAP apparently has the same idea recently launching its bare metal cloud edge architecture in Austin, Texas. With this new deployment, they are in need to provide access to their services for customers across the American Southwest. And Asia Pacific provider BDX knows all about new homes as they recently moved their global headquarters and leadership team to Singapore. We're hearing a lot about Asia and Singapore as well. They previously operated a data center in Singapore, but now plan to triple their investment in the region. So good stuff coming out of BDX with regard to Asia PAC. But speaking of moving, I moved recently, Jay, as you know, about six months ago, and I'm getting ready to take a week vacation starting right after this recording. And I'm going to clean my garage. That's my vacation. I'm going to clean my garage. I'm going to put shelves in and organize the garage so that I can kind of spruce up my headquarters, so to speak. Yeah, sort of spring cleaning, sprucing up. I like it. New kick, yeah. Okay. New vibes. I get you. I get you. Sad vacation agenda, but that's, you know, I'm here. All right. And, you know, talking about New Fresh, there are some new kids on the block that we need to mention. And we were not talking about the new kids on the block. No. Okay. Well, now we are. And there's a brand new player in the American telecom construction scene, guys. Here we are, the debut of a new industry player, Lightspeed. Love them. Actually, a lot of the management team you already know. But they are hitting the ground running as a new name to watch, currently hiring, telecom construction and installation crews all across the country. We're seeing a lot of hiring, too, which is good news for our industry. And our final piece of expansion and construction news, Data Bank announced an expansion of their Las Vegas data center facility. The addition will double the site's capacity to three megawatts of critical power and three 30,000 square foot right there beside the Las Vegas McCarran International Airport. So more expansion coming from our folks there at Data Bank. And speaking Las Vegas, of course, we have to talk about channel partners coming up in Vegas, April 11th through the 14th, JSA will be there, too. We're excited to see y'all will be filming JSA TV interviews in that exhibit hall. So go ahead and shoot us an email at say hi at jsa.net to schedule an interview. Yeah, I love that email address. But Jamie, tell me, do you think many JSAers will be gambling while they're in Vegas? Well, I'm, you know, not me. I tend to be drawn more to the shows, like give me Cirque du Soleil any time over a poker table. But speaking of poker, the singer of poker face is going to be in Vegas. And you just told me that you were going to go see her, yeah? Yeah, Lady Gaga. Yeah, cool. I'm really excited. My husband surprised me with some tickets, although I will say it's the first time doing some type of like in an audience environment post pandemic. So I'm a little, but you know, mask it. We're triple vaccinated. So it's time to get out there and see Gaga, you know, and it's Gaga. So I love it. I love it. Well, when I'm in Vegas, I typically gravitate more towards the endless buffets. And I've never been much at gambling. So, you know, crab legs and steak for breakfast, lunch and dinner for me. So I made that at the blackjack table, but I'm always a winner at the buffet table. And as long as I'm not sitting next to you on the plane ride home, anyway, speaking of winners, let's move on to the awards headlines for this month ahead of a boy. Okay, let's start with the prestigious CRN data center 50 list, where two friends of JSA were just recently honored. You know, you're right. Major congratulations to both T five data centers and server farm what a great accomplishment so well deserved. T five also recently achieved a top certification for information security this month, we should mention. So it's been a big month of accolades for them. They're really rounding it up. They now have their ISO IEC two seven zero zero one certification, which is really a very rigorous international standard. So props to them. Jamie, I'm so glad I didn't have to read that one. Speaking with awards, there's also the data cloud global awards, which will be given out later this month in Monaco. Our friends Zen layer have been shortlisted shortlisted for two awards there, the data cloud edge and name of it award and the connectivity innovator of the year award. So big shout out to our friends at Zen layer. Oh, yes. And let's hope nobody gets slapped at that award ceremony. We couldn't we couldn't not do this and get that in. Sorry. Anyway, Jamie. Anyway, moving on. Oh, yeah, that's all me. We're in our home stretch. Let's stay focused. What other industry announcements deserve our coverage this month, Jay? All right. Yes, I'm composing myself comments. Cummins has announced a virtual round table event called data center decarbonization through sustainable power taking place April 14th. It sounds like a great event. And you can win a portable generator just by registering, which is very neat. Very cool. I would love one of those to put in my garage. As a matter of fact, the NIEX, we spoke about them early NYIX. Internet exchange recently celebrated their 25th anniversary. They posted a great retrospective on the telecom news now blog page. That's a JSA TNN blog page. So check that out about all the changes that they've seen in the industry over the last decade and a half. So pop some champagne. It's a 25. It's a big one for the New York internet exchange and YIIX. Oh my gosh, celebrating 25 years. Gosh. All right. Involta did some celebrating in a different way, actually commemorating International Data Center Day, which we're all celebrating, by partnering with Girls Inc., a nonprofit organization that empowers young girls for the future. There's a great article again on TNN, which is jsa.net slash blog, which I really love this article. What a great cause and what a great way to celebrate International Data Center Day. Yeah, outstanding. Our last headline is also near and dear to your heart, Jamie, most dear to your heart and my heart, all of collective JSA's heart. Edge Connect's executive, Phillip Marengel, it doesn't seem like he goes a week without getting himself a right smack dab in the middle of the news. He had a recent appearance on JSA's very own Data Movers podcast. Why don't you tell us how that went? Yeah, it was awesome. He's of course a phenomenal speaker, but it was just a really great organic chat. I definitely encourage everyone to check it out. The interview is part of our greener data series where we've been interviewing others, the authors of this multi-author book coming up on Earth Day. Actually, we are releasing this book on Amazon April 22nd. Phillip shares a little bit of a preview of his chapter in the book. I really suggest you check that out. You can also hear from Phillip and a few other key chapter contributors at our greener data virtual roundtable coming up April 7th, so next Thursday. Go ahead and check out hashtag greener data to learn more. This is our month. We are launching this book. We are talking, getting our industry sustainable, and we have to do it now, guys. I'm so excited to be part of these chats and hearing these great innovations and hopefully sharing them with our industry and beyond. Yeah, Jamie, I'm really, really stoked about this. One of the, you know, one of the luxuries I guess we have as the account team is we get to kind of read some of the forwards, initial drafts of this. And the thing that struck me most was that there is something well beyond kind of a lip service now. It's something that's real and it's happening. And I love that we have this like human side and business side and environmental side of what's kind of happening in our industry in this book. It really feels like the beginning of more books, frankly, to me. Yeah, 24 thought leaders contributed chapters for greener data. And I'm telling you, there are real world, right now, case studies, examples of how folks are working on getting their networks, their facilities, their businesses more green, more sustainable, reducing those carbon emissions, considering biodiversity within their sites, really phenomenal tips, how to engage and empower people, resource management, really using hardware and software to work together to really tackle this cause, which we all need to be tackling from every corner of the earth together simultaneously. So these are like, don't even think of it as a book, think of it as a movement, think of it as many, many blueprints lined up together for you to take influence from and really join us in this movement and enact these ideas in your own facilities and your own companies. And let's move forward together and save the planet. I love it, Jay. I love it. And so much exciting news going on. Jamie, we're really almost about done. I managed to get through without a single croak. It's always great to do this and it's always great to hang out with you, captain. So thanks for having me again. Well done, Dino, and your garage awaits you, my friend. So let's call this a wrap. There has, this is another edition of our JSA Fast Forward, our monthly breakdown of news and notes from the telecom and data center industry. Hope you enjoyed our little chit chat, little coffee time. See you next time, guys. See you soon. And as always, happy networking.