 Welcome back to JSA TV and JSA podcast where we're covering the latest stories trends and innovations from leaders in the digital Infrastructure world. It's been a busy PTC as you can see my voice is just now deciding to give out here That's opportune timing. I'm sitting here right now with Bruce Garrison of bandwidth IG. Thank you very much for joining us Thank you Kila for having me. Yeah looking forward to a brief discussion. Yeah, absolutely So before we dive into things and probably the most important question Have you had any time to enjoy a little bit of Hawaii because we're in beautiful Honolulu here at PTC? In 10 years of being at PTC my feet have never touched sand. Okay. Well, you'll have to change that It's pretty pitiful. I should actually try to find a way to change. This is the trip. It's gonna happen all right, well, let's dive into the reason why we're here and We work very near and dear with bandwidth IG So we know this to be a fact you had a really big and exciting announcement about your San Francisco Bay Area Network this week Tell us a little about that We have we we announced a very very big project that is At the very very final stages the majority of the heavy liftings been complete and we'll finish over the next three to four months that project is a large fiber Infrastructure investment in the San Francisco Bay Area going from downtown San Francisco all the way to create oaks. It is a project that it's taken Three years to complete the complexity the permitting the the government agencies we had to work with through for it was very daunting process and it was it's been a great success and It is something that's going to change fiber infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area for the next decades and we are proud Excited and the next day the next step is letting the market reap the benefits of all this work that we've put in Absolutely, there's a really cool element of this project that you're not getting to just yet So let's get to that it includes one of the first subsea routes That's built under the Bay Area in quite some time several decades Which is quite significant, but also not something that's easy to do So can you tell us a little bit about why you wanted to tackle it in that way and how it will help customers? Yeah, so our business is we build large amounts of fiber infrastructure No other services on top of that that's up to the customer but we build fiber infrastructure to data centers the Bay Area is a large data center market and there is a lack of infrastructure available in the Bay Area to support all the digital technologies of cloud AI and everything in the future to come that that we're not we're not even aware about yet and the the Marine Cable is the Probably most complex part and the one that we Can be most proud of so we put large amounts of fiber on the San Francisco Bay floor Work with all the governing entities to accomplish that up to the requirement that they had and this is so unique one because in 20 some odd to two decades more than two decades. No one's put a cable on the bay floor to a lot of the cables today fiber cables traverse the bridges or the BART They like they don't have the same amount of capacity as what we just installed In the in the bay it connects a complete ring into the markets that we just I had mentioned and it is going to allow the Bay Area to continue to be a Premier market for data center activity as as more power becomes available more expansion can happen and that fiber that we just put in the ground or under the bay is A critical component to the market being able to continue to be a big data center hub on the west coast. Yeah Well, congratulations. I know that's not an easy feat I are our team did an amazing job super proud of them and super thankful to have them because it that I explained it several times that Our operations and instruction team makes hard things not look hard. So it's really proud of that group for what they accomplished Sounds like a new good tagline for for the company there. Yeah, possibly well Let's give a little bit of love to greater Atlanta in the Hillsborough area where you've got a network and then also Sorry greater Atlanta and then the Hillsborough area Portland So what what's happening with those two networks? So our other two markets today are the greater Atlanta area And then we're also in Hillsborough it's it is The same to expect on different scales Georgia obviously or greater Atlanta. It's just a bigger market lot of data thinner activity So you will see us building More and more this year we will double our network size over the next couple years We're really excited about Georgia. There's a lot of ingredients that are just making a great market for us And again another one the the density of the infrastructure. We're putting in the ground doesn't exist So it's a necessity for the market and Hillsborough is the same. It's a smaller market To start with in terms of route mileage, but we will continue to build spent plenty of meetings while here talking about building more so we'll Continue our business will continue to pick up a work and put Ground in the markets that need it and those are those two you will continue to see more expansion The largest piece of that will be in the Atlanta area, but even we're not yet in the Bay area At mileage in the Bay area as well outside of this 300 mile project that we're completing now. Yeah, absolutely What what else should we know about bandwidth IG that we're maybe not asking right now? What else would you like our viewers to know? Yeah, they're We're at PTC where there's data center operators hyper scalars carriers and what we are is really Unique we're not a carrier. We're an infrastructure provider and I've said this 100 times already what we're doing today and what we're putting in their ground does not exist and it's a necessity for the digital economy and for data center operators and The the infrastructure is purpose-built for the most demanding consumers of fiber and bandwidth and it's just because Tangible underground was on the ground. It's it probably doesn't get the Understanding and thought that these big shiny new data centers do and see them and walk in them But it's really proud of the organization because it's just a foundational piece Unless you're in the construction process And so is it's just unique and we're an infrastructure provider not a carrier and We feel this little niche here in this industry And it's exciting to see what our customers are doing with it with the infrastructure We put them. Yeah, absolutely And we're here at a conference where we're hearing a lot about AI and the rise of that and of course the AI Doesn't come without the fiber in the data center. So it's definitely a critical piece of enabling all of the cool things coming down the pike Yeah The fastest car in the world doesn't go anywhere without the highway and we're we're building new highways. Yeah, absolutely Well, and anything else that we can look forward to in 2024 or just stay tuned You can look forward to more construction in the markets that we're in. We are considering Another other markets as well. Maybe the next inner JSA TV interview we have we can Announce one of those. We're not still under the consideration phase for those and But again, the biggest thing is more infrastructure More new fiber in the ground and that won't change For the foreseeable future. All right, good stuff. Well, thank you very much for your time here We appreciate it and I hope you've got a moment to go and find that sand Yeah, before the end of tomorrow the end of PTC Thanks again Bruce for joining us. Thanks killing. Appreciate it. All right and to our viewers. Thanks for tuning in and stay connected