 Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scato-Cutaya of JSA. Joining me here today at ITW 2017 in fabulous Chicago, my friend, Mr. Martin Springer, he's the CEO of CMC Networks. Martin, thank you for joining us here on JSA TV. Thanks very much. Thanks for having me. And please tell us, what's the latest and greatest going on at CMC Networks? Some exciting news that's in the market is that we've been acquired recently by Carlisle, the Carlisle Group, one of the largest private equity firms in the world. That's exceptionally exciting for CMC and helps us build on some great momentum that we've had in the last two years. Carlisle is a really well represented business across the globe and certainly opening doors for us and so we're very excited about this new partnership. Our model is a wholesale model, so we enable global telcos to offer services and white label our network. All different types of data services, layer 3, Ethernet, internet services across Africa. We take pride in the fact that we can offer SLAs across these really, really difficult places. We're 20 years in the making, so we've learned some lessons, sometimes the hard way, but I think we've come out the other side better for it. Delivering services for over 400 end customers across 2000 circuits across Africa and the Middle East is another key region for us as well. So really just that emerging market strategy and we can help facilitate that for big global telcos who don't want to necessarily go in and make a massive investment into these regions. We offer services that they can provide, you know, they value added services on the top of. And is it strictly a wholesale model, only carriers carrier? Yeah, absolutely. We do have some legacy enterprise customers, you know, from many years ago. Those are slowly kind of migrating across to the carriers. We want to be vendor neutral. We do not want to compete with our telco service providers for the end customers, so we really are there to facilitate their business models. And for sure that model is working for you, that neutrality that you provide to your carriers. It's really been such a growth story for CMC. Can you provide us some more insight there? Yeah, sure. I think the tangible things that we can talk about are, you know, we've grown our pops from about 67 in the last two years to about 102 across Middle East and Africa. And we're in all the key locations in Europe, Paris, London, Germany. We've got a network service provision in America as well now, so we've just got a big customer in America. So really, we pride ourselves on our agility and our flexibility. And we will always endeavor to do business in difficult regions. We've opened a U.S. office, and we've got presence in Europe as well. We've rebuilt our network operation center in Johannesburg, South Africa. We just grew too big, and so we've purpose built it. And he wants to come and have a look, you know, by all means, look us up. And you know, so we've grown our business year on year by over 200 percent, and we will hope to continue doing that. And I think, you know, the world is really interested in these emerging markets, in particular in Africa. You know, it's a great area for growth. And you know, in many respects, we facilitate that for these companies. And for sure now with your new management team in place, what does the next year look like? So a bit more of the same, you know, we want to make sure that our business is very customer centric now. We've kind of passed the technical hurdles. We want to make sure that people understand about our business, you know, hence the interviews and the interaction with our customers. So customer centricity is what we're all about now, and enabling these people's strategies across these hard-to-reach places. And I think a bit more on the product development side. So, you know, we're looking at, you know, these hybrid solutions, best use of the internet, dedicated services. We're looking at backup services and making sure the internet is prevalent across Africa, but always, you know, people want dedicated services too. So we're trying to play in that whole range and suite of services and make sure that we've got the right value propositions for our customers. And then just making sure that all the logos across the global world are aware that we're around and we open for business and really just to reiterate that message, which says that we will facilitate your emerging market strategy for your multinational corporates and are doing so for multiple telcos across the world. I really love your business model. I'm a big fan of CMC Networks personally, bridging that digital divide. And doing so on the wholesale level, it's really a great story to tell. We will certainly be watching out for more news from CMC Networks. Thank you so much for joining us and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV.