 This is JSA TV the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Dean Perine and welcome to JSA TV We are coming at you on location from ITW 2018 in the windy city of Chicago, Illinois And I am here with mr. Mike Sauer Mike is the vice president of America's partner and federal at Aquacoms and mr. Chris Bailey Chris is the chief commercial officer at Aquacoms guys. Welcome to JSA TV. Thank you very much Thanks Dean. Thanks for the opportunity to spend some time with you outstanding. Thank you for the opportunity as well We appreciate it lots of big things going on at Aquacoms Some big wins Specifically in the award space Mike. Let's start with you Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about a recent award that I just learned about yeah We won an award at PTC this year along with packet fabric where whereby we designed our network where they can use it almost as a Almost as a pay-per-use type of a scenario whereby we reserved a hundred gig circuit for them and as they add customers They add the customers into our hundred gig and as more customers they add The more hundred gigs they buy from us. So it's a it's a win-win situation for both of us outstanding outstanding So your executive team has been making headlines lately as well with some new hires. Would you want to talk about that? Sure, I'm delighted to join the Aquacoms team. It's a really experienced team I've known some of the individuals in the team for many many years with a background. I have been in submarine cables Added recently to some experience in threshold networks I hope to bring some of that combined experience to what is already a really strong team Well, let's go off script for just a minute if you guys will oblige Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit more about why you were hired and some of the responsibility? Easy for me to say right some of the responsibilities that you'll have so the reason for joining is Aquacoms has Has some existing network today with with plans now to develop a wider network Actually to build a proper network including the North Atlantic loop that will create some really strong assets for the company the the business model that we have I think is is very much where the industry needs to go in the submarine cable business and We're looking at opportunities to use that business model as wide as we can in other parts of the world, too So we're looking really to develop the business here Well, whatever you're doing over there seems to be working because I understand there's some some pretty significant customer wins, too Mike you want to tell our viewers a little bit about that the two the two ones I think that we should we should mention here is one was a hurricane electric Whereas a hundred gig circuit straight circuit into Europe where it enables them to broaden their scope of Service offerings and the other one is is with packet fabric right that I mentioned previously So it's a very exciting time for us with regards to that and we're trying to focus on hundred gigs and above cells We don't like to do anything less than hundred gigs, but and it's working out very well Outstanding so it's working out very well We love hearing that but what we really really like and I think our viewers would Would attest is that we want to know what you're gonna do next? So if you could look six to twelve months, I know I'm throwing you throwing you the fastball inside right now if you Can if you can If you could look six to twelve months into the future Well, what's gonna happen with aquacoms six to twelve months from now? Well, let's just say 4q 19 Let's do it 4q 19. We'll have the North American Loop in service It will be a EC2 it will be Celtic Celtic not Celtic. You have to say Celtic I'll remember I get I get I get yelled at from the guys in Dublin Celtic connect to and the North North Sea Connect, so we'll have a ring Around Europe and we'll have a ring around the US once the half fruit consortium cable is in service And we're calling our piece of the half fruit cable a EC2 Outstanding outstanding guys, so it's it's still early in the first day of ITW. I guess technically the second day Second technically it feels like it's the fourth day But how the show is going well for you guys so far very well. Yeah, we started I think 7 a.m. This morning and we're not finishing till Five o'clock on Wednesday, I think every every hour every half hour. Yeah, I get it. I get it Absolutely, and thank you very much for joining us here today. We appreciate it. You're welcome. Thank you You got it. We appreciate it. You got it and thank you viewers for watching JSA TV. We'll see you soon