 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals I'm Lauren Oland here in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii for PTC 20 joining me now is Lynn Gowen the vice president of sales and marketing at 1623 Farnham welcome Lynn. Thank you. So I'm happy to be here Lynn let's start by telling our viewers a little bit about 1623 Farnham and what your specialties are All right 1623 Farnham is an edge interconnect facility. We're in the center of the country essentially We specialize in essentially interconnection between carriers and carriers carriers and businesses but we're also starting to merge into doing edge connect more edge connect type of Interactions or interconnections with the cloud the hyperscalers CDNs things like that Okay, and you mentioned you're in the center of the country. You're in Omaha, Nebraska So tell us why that's a good a good spot for you and moving forward with business opportunities We think it's great because it's two degrees there now, but so cooling is really great No, and all seriousness when the fiber networks were first being built across the country years ago They passed right through Omaha east-west as well as north-south So we're right in the nexus if you will of the fiber backbone and as more and more fiber facilities have been built They all continue to pass right through Omaha and most of them connect right into our facility Gonna warm up a little bit here in Hawaii I'm looking forward to it recently you secured some funding for a massive construction project. That's underway Can you tell us about that? We sure did we we we got some new ownership back in the fall of 2018 and that allowed us to be able to start to realize what the true We think what we see is the true potential of that facility and in last year we invested about 10 million into the building and allowed us to build out the fifth floor and Start to provide some data center space We're starting to fill that up now as we as we speak and then in this year in 2020 We're gonna put another 40 million into the building that it's gonna allow us to rework the entire electrical power infrastructure of the building So we're gonna be providing about eight megawatts of power to support everything in that building as well as continue to build out floors six seven eight nine Wonderful all right lots of work coming up and we'll be watching for sure this year So what's something that maybe our viewers don't know about 1623 farm that you'd like them to know? I think that the one couple of things one of them is that we are you know We our type of facility has been viewed in the past as a co-location facility And we're certainly will continue to do that but going forward I think it's our biggest focus is gonna be and our biggest importance is gonna be the fact that we're gonna help support the migration of cloud companies of Edge providers and getting their data out pushed out close to the edge closer to their customers Where they can the customers can interact with it quicker faster? Additionally, we also house the Omaha X or the internet exchange and that it's currently Ramped up to about 200 gig of traffic that passes through that on a daily basis So quite phenomenal for something that hasn't been in our facility much more than a couple of years Well if folks want to learn more about 1623 far num Where can they go website or social media? They can certainly just Google 1623 far no more It's WWW 1623 far num.com. Well, thank you so much Linda for joining us. Thanks. Laura. It's great chatting with you And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcast. Happy networking