 Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scott-Okitaya of JSA here at ITW 2019 in fabulous Atlanta. Joined by my friend Eric Bozic, he's the vice president and general manager of Edge Micro. Eric, welcome to JSA TV. This is your first time here. Thank you. Yeah, it's my first time here and great to be here with you. We are honored and there's so much going on for our viewers who don't already know they should. What is Edge Micro? Who are you guys? What are you doing? We're in a really exciting space. There's a lot going on with the Edge and Edge computing. And Edge Micro is creating a distributed carrier-neutral co-location ecosystem. So it's kind of an exciting thing to do. Our goal is to deploy that and reduce latency, increase capacity, and create a platform for a whole new generation of applications that are going to need lower latency and higher performance to really deliver new types of experiences. And Edge, absolutely one of those buzzwords of the year, of several years. How do you specifically define the Edge? Well, today the Edge is really built around a centralized cloud core. And that works really great for scaling. That works really great from a latency standpoint for some users that are nearby. But the latency can be highly variable. So we want to distribute that Edge farther out. We want to get it closer to where the users actually are and create a more predictable experience for latency-sensitive applications. And here at ITW, of course, our telecom community, the carrier service providers, how can you help these carriers get closer to where the content is? Well, we're going to bring infrastructure out to those more, actually the less-served locations or underserved locations. Instead of building one massive data center to scale this direction, we're going to spread things out and create a larger footprint that carriers can connect to and become part of that ecosystem that I talked about, who creates the environment. And for sure, getting to the Edge enables new technologies that are quickly coming to fruition like 5G. So how can wireless technologies like 5G be leveraged at the Edge to deliver services? Well, you know, a lot of users connect via landlines and terrestrial connections, but a growing number connect via wireless. We all carry our devices around and with 5G coming, those devices are going to get faster and faster and enable better experiences. But having a faster radio network doesn't necessarily solve the problem of latency because oftentimes those radio networks have to travel a long distance to get back to a core gateway where they'll connect to the Internet and provide infrastructure access to the infrastructure for supporting applications. So we're going to support technology that enables local breakout so those fast wireless access networks can connect to the content locally in this distributed Edge ecosystem that we're building. So we're going to really help accelerate those 5G networks. I just love that. So Edge Micro distributed Edge ecosystem. Very good. I love it. All right. Where can our viewers go to learn more? Well, you can follow Edge Micro on LinkedIn and you can go to our website, which is www.edgemicro.com. Yeah, and we'll put it right here. Edgemicro.com, check it out. Thank you so much for joining us. It was a pleasure having you, my friend. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV here at ITW 2019. Happy networking.