 Welcome to JSA TV the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scott Okutaya of JSA here at the fabulous International Telecoms Week 2017 with my friend Mr. Doug Lowy. He is the Vice President of International Accounts at Interaction. Doug welcome to JSA TV. Great to be here. Fantastic to be at ITW which is a smashing successful event every year. It really is quite it's like telecom takes over Chicago and it's really quite a quite an event. So for our viewers who may not already know can you tell us the latest and greatest on interaction. Happy to. Interactions focus is providing quality data center services throughout Europe and what we're experiencing this year is an accelerated movement of the hyperscale cloud providers, digital media companies, financial services firms that are frankly rushing to Europe to capitalize on growth opportunities that may not be necessarily occurring here in the United States. So we're have a record number of meetings this event and the customer engagements are rich and not only we are solving for issues and opportunities this year but we're having quite a vision for what's happening in the future. And you really do have such a niche especially in the European marketplace. If I'm correct here you have 45 data centers in 13 cities. Correct. I mean that is extraordinary. Can you give us some more details, more scope? Sure. It's not so much just the number of the data centers. It's where they're geographically located. The hub of the internet within Europe tends to be around Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris and of course interaction has a dominant presence in those respective markets. But we seem to be adding significant value for US headquartered companies looking to solve their data center requirements in Europe is places like Vienna. So you can get to Eastern Europe but hub out of somewhere safe and very secure and very very solid from a business perspective out of Vienna. You can get to Russia by putting some of your assets in Stockholm as opposed to having to actually be in Russia. London continues to be our forte when it comes to serving the financial community. For example, the London Metal Exchange has put its matching engine in our data center in that location so it's become the hub for the financial community. Of course Frankfurt continues to just go from strength to strength. But our signature asset right now is Marseille with two undersea cables coming from Asia. CME We5 and AE1 which is 21 terabits of connectivity. What we're experiencing that is quite significant is the fact that all of the cloud providers as well as the content providers want to be able to put their platforms in Marseille. A proxy for how much that's changed is when we bought the facility a couple years ago there were 45 carriers in that location. As of last week there's 114 carriers. So it's the convergence point for companies wanting to solve for Europe, Middle East and Africa but use Marseille as the hub for being able to provide content and delivery down to Africa and over to Asia. So we've got carriers, we've got content delivery, we've got cloud. What other types of clients do you cater to? Those are specific focus areas. The connectivity layer of course is the hallmark. We have now over 500 carriers as part of the organization. On top of that are the different hyperscale cloud providers whether it's bare metal providers or traditional cloud providers. Then there's the specific verticals whether it be the ad tech community from a digital media perspective or as I mentioned before our financial community of interest which is of course the banking community that calls not only places like London but also Frankfurt and Zurich as home. You're talking 500 carriers, companies, it's unbelievable the growth that you've been experiencing. Can you tell us some secrets behind that growth success story? I think the real key is recognizing that although our headquarters is in Amsterdam, we're listed on the New York Stock Exchange and we service Western Europe, our forte is helping companies that are headquartered, for example in the United States that are looking to make that journey to Europe. Also what we've experienced is Indian headquartered companies looking to replicate their success rate in India in Europe. And as of late we've had some of the very large Chinese power houses that are executing what we call their Silk Road strategy to better replicate their growth that they've had in China in Europe. And so we are having conversations with some of the most inspiring logos on the planet from Asia, from India, from the United States coming to Europe, and that has accelerated our growth and has accelerated our engagement with some of the finest logos on the planet. So what do you think 2018 looks like for you? Sometimes more of the same sounds a little bit of an excuse or a cop out but we're recognizing at this stage the embracing of the cloud and companies saying, we want to make sure that our legacy applications or our network nodes are going to be in a highly connected data center such as interaction. And then as they embrace the cloud, whether they want to burst workloads to a Microsoft or they want to burst workloads to an AWS or they want to have some bare metal platforms on Oracle, what companies are wanting to do now is de-risk where they're putting their information assets. And so they're choosing highly connected data centers, highly cloud centric data centers such as interaction to be able to de-risk their business solutions. And then when you see things like Brexit, when everybody is saying, whoa, we need to either have a presence in London as well as on the continent, since we can solve for those multiple geographies, we're often seen as the company when you need to address data privacy laws, you need to address performance, you need to address the just the overall ubiquity of data. Our area of expertise is solving for those companies in Europe. Unbelievable. What a story. Thank you, Doug, for your time. Just one last question, where can our viewers go to find out more information? Classic is www.interaction.com, our website. You can see our expertise in either the verticals we are proficient in or the geographies. And we're looking forward to having those continued conversations with those companies. Thank you. Wonderful. Interaction.com, definitely a company to watch as they continue their success path. Thank you for joining us, Doug, and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV. Happy networking.