 Welcome to JSATV the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scato-Cutaya here at telecom exchange New York City 2017 couldn't be more excited to be at the lovely Sibriani's with my friend mr. Jeff Brown He is windstreams director of product management and marketing Jeff welcome to JSATV Thanks. Thanks, Jamie. Glad to be here. Glad to have you here And thank you also for your support of telecom exchange. We greatly appreciate it Yeah, it's been a successful event for us and we're also looking forward to the west coast event later this year We can't wait for Tex LA November So talking um since the director of marketing windstream is right here next to me Sd now product, which by the way Love love that brand Tell us about your recent sd now news and what it means for windstream. Sure. Absolutely So sdn now is really a umbrella product announcement. It's the first product at the optical layer that heralds our adoption of sdn provision services So over the last couple years if you followed windstream, we've been very busy investing in our long haul Core transport network So we are now one of a small handful of people that truly provide nationwide services from the bay area all the way to Boston for one gig to 100 gig In addition, we've been Investing in adding to the major carrier neutral data centers so we can provide access to cloud connectivity As a next step in that evolution. We've actually taken our internal network through sdn Digital transformation. So actually with the product that we're offering now with sdn now Now we have customers that are utilizing one gig and 10 gig services between major data centers So we are in the process of being able to offer customers public hybrid and Private cloud connectivity services This is the first step in an evolution to be able to offer customers a dynamic cloud connectivity to customer prams Leveraging the extensive depth and breadth of the windstream network Dynamic cloud connectivity to customer prams just just uh digesting this because this is this is latest greatest stuff And uh, couldn't be more excited from the bay area to Boston and all of I mean windstream So talking about windstream. You have a real niche in the industry. Can you give our viewers a little bit more? Yeah, absolutely. Um with the Verizon exo and centering link level three acquisitions completed will be the fifth largest Carrier in terms of fiber miles in us and really, you know the Preferred carrier of choice that people don't necessarily have to do business with so Through our, you know, 15,000 on-net locations plus our data center coverage reach in our extensive network We're positioning ourselves to be The true, you know national provider of choice And the sdn now services are actually going to give customers very tangible benefits in terms of accelerated service delivery Real-time capability to To turn up bandwidth between major data centers And then you know the next steps in that launch will be layer two and layer three services Out to the customer pram and then additional feature functionality that we think Certain verticals in the market will be attracted to like service chaining and virtual cp, etc Oh, gosh. Yeah, so talking about that verticals. What are the clients that you cater to? Yeah, windstream is a fortune 500 companies. So we do business with you know, half a million different business customers and A thousand plus wholesale customers. So anybody who needs high bandwidth transport. So here in the new york area finance companies media web scale Content providers as well as traditional network operators Wireless carriers wireline carriers foreign carriers all do business with windstream Not only do we can we provide services extensively throughout the u.s And to lower tier markets But we also have connectivity to a lot of the major landing stations where international traffic comes into the u.s So we could provide transport back to those major peering points in the u.s amazing and You're you've been So consistent with your unbelievable growth story year after year. Can you tell us a little bit more about that? Sure, you know, we've been very busy acquiring a number of companies over the years and then Putting in the effort to really integrate those. So most recently in the last 12 months We've purchased earth link and broad view networks. So we're in the process of integrating both of those companies So essentially our positioning is it will be one of the main National players in the u.s that no matter what segment you're in you'll have a need to do business with this If you're an smb mid market, you can leverage our ucaz services many of which will be Taking advantage of the broad broad view portfolio If you're higher end, you can certainly utilize our nationwide mpls network our ip services Our hosted services as well as our transport network and then clearly in the wholesale space We're one of the big providers for wholesale transport Mef 2.0 Blind carry ethernet as well as all the traditional legacy services that carriers need So that leads me to my next tough question Bria looking in your crystal ball. What can you tell us about where windstream might be heading in the next 6 to 12 months? Yeah, I mean my particular area focus is on further developing our sdn now product portfolio so Initially, we've got layer one optical services between major data centers later this summer. You'll see 56 locations that we can offer these services to After that it will be layer 2 and layer 3 services out to the customer prem All of this involves using a multi-domain service orchestrator. We use blue planet Today we can interface with multiple transport third-party sdn controllers And we're starting to work with those layer 2 and layer 3 major vendors to get their third party controllers Interoperating with our with our blue planet so that we can provide a truly orchestrated sdn environment So over the next 12 months, I think that's where you'll see real products come out the door that customers can leverage to give them real benefits especially in terms of quick install Turnup and then things like bandwidth on demand or bandwidth calendaring Layer 2 layer 3 that's really uh, that's really something so for our viewers who want to learn more where can they go? Right now it's carrier.windstreambusiness.com as part of our earth link merger. We're actually relaunching our Windstream wholesale website. So we now own the url windstream wholesale.com It will actually be up the week of july 4th So no later than july 7th. You can go to windstreamholdscell.com If you still go to the carrier.windstream.business, it'll redirect to them for several months Oh, exciting news. Can't wait for that launch as well. Okay. Well, thank you, jeb For your time here and thank you viewers for tuning in to jsa tv. Happy networking