 This is JSA TV and JSA podcast the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals I'm Dean Perine and welcome to JSA TV We are coming at you on location from beautiful Miami, Florida at Metro connect 2020 and I'm here with mr. Todd Cushing Todd is the president of 1623 Farnham Todd welcome to JSA TV Dean. I'm happy to be here. Thank you very good So Todd for our viewers that don't already know, why don't you tell them a little bit about 1623 Farnham? Sure. We're a Dedicated facility towards co-location and interconnection. We're building an ecosystem. It's a nine-story building in Oman, Nebraska That has about 42 43 phone carriers and or interconnect long haul and international players in our facility Well, very good. Uh speaking of the facility. I understand that you have recently expanded and upgraded that facility Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about that? We are in the process of upgrading the interconnection at the facility So a lot more cabling and the vaults are going into the facility We also have expanded powers or eight megawatts of electrical and generation backup in the facility So there's a lot of uh upgrades in our capabilities of our clients Very good. So let's talk about strategy a little bit. I understand that um from a location point of view You are strategically located from a company that a few of us have heard about google Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about that strategy? Sure? There's a lot of hyperscale in Omaha google had two facilities in council plus about three miles away from us They're building another facility seven miles south and west of us and another facility 50 miles to the west of us on 568 years all of this has been announced a hyperscale Facebook and others are in the metro area and they're in our facility Typically their vendors and their partners are in our facility to be on their network, but not in their facilities Very cool. So you have a little bit going on then right now. Don't you time? It's a busy place We have the google on ramp as part of that experience at our facility native and people like to take advantage of that as well Of course, of course they do. So um, let's get out the crystal ball Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about what they might be able to expect from from you folks here in the uh The upcoming months. Sure. So we recently acquired the Omaha IX That was the first thing we did this year and now we are in the process of expanding the ecosystem Really driving more interconnection in the facility more appearing as a result of that purchase We also should expect certifications will continue. We are isos PCI Sox compliant, but we'll continue to develop our processes and our certifications this year So we've got a handful of new carriers. We already know will be coming into the facility as well So more interconnection more appearing more ecosystem building Awesome. Awesome. Uh, Todd you're gonna do some uh receptions tonight. Maybe yeah, we're kind of a little bit of fun in Miami All right. Yeah, me me too. Me too. So thanks for being with us. We appreciate it. I appreciate you having us here You got it. You got it and thank you viewers for watching jsa tv and listening to jsa podcast We'll see you soon and happy networking