 Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scato-Cottaya of JSA, and here at ITW 2018 in Chicago, I am joined by my friends, Mr. Ray LaChance, CEO of Zenfie, and Mr. Enzo Clemente, CEO of Cross River Fiber. My friends, we go way back and today is an exciting day for sure. ITW is a buzz with the news. Two great companies coming together. Tell us more. That's great. Thanks, Jamie, for having us. Well, we're really excited about the opportunity to get these companies together. We've worked in the New York metro market, the jersey market for years. We've had a partnership where we've actually connected our networks together last year, and we started seeing real synergies in everything we were doing, and we decided maybe we should look a little deeper and see if there's an opportunity to create a bigger footprint as a combined company throughout the region. And certainly those networks are so complementary. Yeah, they really are. And as Ray had mentioned, we created an interconnection, we've been working with each other as partners for many, many years in so many different respects. But I think when you look at our portfolio, we have some differentiators in our products, and we're excited to combine those collectively and offer them to our customers and our growing base. So it's extremely exciting. And let's talk network infrastructure first. What makes this so unique? Well, one of the things that it gives us is geographic reach, right? It gives us a network across the, you know, five barrels of New York, which is a huge dense environment, but it gives us reach down into Jersey. So combined, we have 700 miles of network, I think close to 50 co-location facilities and data centers on net, and 130 enterprise buildings and, you know, and then we have our mobility business where we're connecting small cells and we're closing in on 2,000 sites connected to that piece of the network. So there's a lot of synergy and certainly an expansive reach that we can offer new products across. And what does this mean for our wholesale community, Enzo? It's great. I mean, you know, when you think about the densification now that we've created within the region between New York and New Jersey, as Ray alluded to, we have interconnection to like 50 plus data centers. Most recently, we completed a connection down to Wall, New Jersey, which is, you know, tapping into the international community. So, you know, picking those folks up, giving them reach out to, you know, the extension between New York and New Jersey, diverse, latency-sensitive, all those buzzwords still apply, and we're builders. So the wholesale community will be able to take, you know, advantage of this combined network asset. It's going to be great. Yeah, we're hearing a lot about that NGFX facility down on Wall, so great place to be, particularly for subsea connectivity. And Ray, you touched on briefly your wireless community, your DAS build-outs. Tell us about 5G. How are we preparing? Well, this is a great opportunity in the market today. The evolution of the wireless infrastructure has driven us to this environment where we need to densify, literally put antennas every year anywhere. So we, you know, when we founded Zenfi four years ago, we had the goal of inserting ourselves in that ecosystem, supporting it through this new type of network build, where we create front-haul networks that connect the antenna locations to baseband processing and allows the mobile operators to densify their networks. And we saw a huge problem in the industry. The networks that have been built in the past, legacy networks, just weren't suited for this type of evolution that we saw coming. And so we spent the past four years building this. We've had great success and the uptake has been phenomenal. So 5G needs exactly what we're doing and we're convinced that the legacy networks that exist today aren't suitable to solve that problem. That's definitely the type of innovation needed to make sure 5G hits home New York and beyond. So in Ray, in terms of dark fiber, how do you see the dark fiber continuing to play an evolution in the modern network? Well, so it's great, right? The wireless doesn't work without wires and you need wires everywhere, right? So the goal is to get antennas as close to the user as possible. But you have to get a high capacity, low latency connections to those antennas. The only way to do it reliably is with fiber. So the fiber networks have been built. I hear this all the time. There's fiber networks all over New York. Why do we need another one? Because they were built to solve a different problem. And the problem that we're solving now requires a completely rebuilt or overbuilt infrastructure that has high capacity and is highly accessible. And it's a great opportunity. Great point, great point. Again, two great companies, two great people and your team, everything. Teams are amazing. So the Zenfie Cross River Fiber partnership really makes a lot of sense, gentlemen. It's a pleasure to have you here. Also, don't miss out. They will be at Telecom Exchange in June in New York City. So hear more from these thought leaders there. So thank you, gentlemen, for your time here. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV. Happy networking.