 It's a pleasure to be here and it's great to support the open source community. I would like to share a few slides and take you through a little bit of background on the company. You know, we are new in starting our journey here. We signed on this year in 2022 as a premium member in the elephant project. And we're excited to be part of that. We have done a lot of work recently in our business to think about the edge and our main motivation is really to accelerate the edge infrastructure. And particularly, you know, as we get into 5G that becomes even more critical as we've seen from your discussion earlier, as well as Andre's presentation here how important, you know, the transformation that's occurring at the network into a software defined platform and the leverage of open source. Frankly, some of the security issues to play a key role. And as an end user, we see a lot of benefits in not having to, you know, have these undifferentiated components of the platforms be rebuilt in discrete ways. You know, we think there's a lot of leverage that's coming out of this. And frankly, some of the projects that we see in the elephant age group is the the Acreno work, obviously with the 30 plus footprints, there's a lot of work there that can help our, you know, suppliers deliver solutions to us in ways that are very important. And also, you know, we started to follow and track for a number of years the state of the edge report we thought the taxonomy and the work that was done there to clarify, you know, how people are thinking about the edge and defining the edge was really important because you really solve some of the challenges we have every day and try and explain this area. So what I wanted to do is just cover a few slides give some background maybe you know have some time for questions. So American Tower is a global business, you know we're a tower company and have been from the beginning right so you know we're about 25 plus years old, and we are operating in 25 countries. 20,000 communication sites. And you can imagine when you start looking at this portfolio and the fact that is the world moves to 5G. And the edge there's a lot of opportunity for us to develop infrastructure and support our customers here which are the service providers. And you know we've been on the journey of developing the tower business as an independent company for a long time, you know in the key markets in the US and Latin America we started, you know back in the late 90s. What I wanted to talk about was, you know, how is this really changing when we get to 5G in the edge because we need to look at the latency and some of the components of what's driving those use cases and how do you want to get, you know closer and closer to the source of data as opposed to sort of downlink oriented structures we have a lot of IOT a lot of sort of innovation occurring at the edge with devices, and they need to have data process and workloads closer to the tower sites we believe. So one of the things we did in this particular slide you'll see the opportunity here came up last year for the company, and we actually acquired a company called CoreSight US which is one of the largest heavily interconnected data center companies in the US. So what you look at here in this slide is really this convergence of, you know the network providers which are the history of a lot of these interconnection locations, but more importantly how enterprise and cloud are come together at these locations. And when you overlay that with our tower portfolio in the US of 43,000 plus towers, you can now see the densification that can occur when you start thinking about the edge moving from what was essentially a wireline internet oriented interconnection platform for different sub networks coming together. And moving that now to addition additional facilities which we've acquired as part of American Tower merging those together into a portfolio here, where we become a sort of a leading edge solution on the infrastructure and partnering with you know the cloud on ramps for example that are prevalent in some of these facilities. How we move to these edge data centers we have six that we put at tower sites, and we're using those to explore different use cases and requirements from the customer base that are looking to colo in those facilities. And as operators, in this case the mobile network operators move to 5G and the user playing function gets unbundled and exited at different parts of the network. And I think that the tower portfolio be a great place for that traffic to exit, at least when it needs to exit and then the workloads need to dynamically be discovered where the resources are and how those applications will will feed the end users because mobility does add a different and more complex dimension. So this is, this is the asset base that we have and I just wanted to then spend a few minutes talking about some of the projects that that we are, we are working on. The first one I wanted to talk about was, you know around project we started right around after the pandemic hit. We started working with a number of partners. We had already been a member in a university called Akhen in Germany. And what we had done there was a Wi Fi six solution to be able to provide some in building services for the community there. And as a member of their, you know, future networking, you know, let's call it platforms that they're developing there, we put together a solution with some partners to consider a 5G standalone ORAN solution. And that would be targeting different use cases within industrial 4.0. There's a factory partner there is other campus use cases. And we, we started putting that together it's up and operational now. And as we move through the process, you know, it's, it's got, you know, in some of the partners that are based on, you know, Kubernetes open source solutions, using micro services as the basic software architecture, and trying to look at, you know, again 5GSA devices coming online to be able to look at multiple IOT in private networks. And when we talk about this we look at it as a hybrid network. So initially it might be serving just private users within the university community there as a test bed, but then ultimately we see demand from mobile operators wanting to also use that same platform and in Germany. There's a unique piece of spectrum called location spectrum, which is really open to private users for on prem applications. And we see the opportunity for someone like American Tower as a neutral host to be able to put those pieces together as a single share ran as a service so we're we're seeing some really good opportunities for that type of platform. And as ORAN further develops, we think we can roll that out not just there but in other markets as well I think in the US. The equivalent would be CVRS and you see a lot of demand for that and open source features prominently in these in these platforms. And the other one I want to talk on the upper right is, is working the Paris to connect so we've been for several years working with a community of partners there is five partners there that have been driving an innovation around nine polls and Mark Pole, you know, three kilometer loop in the city of Paris really was set up for autonomous platforms like a shuttle between two rail stations. And while the shuttle isn't yet operational. It's got a CVDX component. It's got, you know, sort of a small cell access component. It's got a number of sensors, LiDAR radar cameras, and even acoustic sensors. So we're rich IoT environment and then that data, you know, in the GDPR and other requirements for security, and for privacy is extracted into a cloud, public cloud. And it's been opened up to third party innovators to take that data set and start to apply it for different applications and use cases that they can they can develop based on, you know, and PTT and other types of video enabled capabilities for even classification of some of the data in the video streams. So that's another project where open source is, is playing key role. On the lower left, we just had an announcement a few weeks ago with some partners in the 5GA consortium that we work in really trying to figure out how do you build the edge for mobile automotive applications. Now there's a way that you can do it with you can use individual networks and do things where, you know, all the devices go to that one network but when you start looking at reality multiple networks need to come together so we think, you know, between the automotive OEMs, the multiple MNOs, and the requirements for the latency, there's real need for this, let's call it neutral host edge, which will be closer to the tower sites than where they are today, you know, in order to manage the sort of having more deterministic latency bounds and to have applications that are, that are really tied to mobility at the intersection blending together vulnerable roadside users sort of information sensor cameras as well as the vehicles themselves. Those things are being put together and we're building a test bed with DTTI Virginia tech, and we see that as an opportunity for a lot of the open source community to play a role as we look at particularly some of the discussions earlier on the 5G. You know, the super blueprint and we think there's some opportunities there as well, and you're tying together in this case multi access you have the wireline requirements that come from DOTs for the signal phase and timing, which is current today and a lot of intersections that are connected and are controlled, that data set tends to go back to a portal, and the latencies on that is really too long for, for, you know, automotive OEMs to be able to take advantage of that, as we look to improve safety but also, there's an ESG component there too in terms of performance and anticipation of a light change at the intersection where these speed up or slow down. So we see a lot of opportunities there to partner with the LF edge community. And then finally with LF edge, the fundamental component here is really trying to bridge together the slide I showed earlier, which is, we have this core infrastructure with core site, we have the connectivity in a lot of those facilities with the clouds, and then bringing that to the mobile operators which are already existing on many of our power sites. How do you bring those two worlds together in a way that drives not only, you know, vertical applications in a particular access network, but horizontal applications that will drive say the metaverse and other capabilities that we think are coming so a lot of requirements there and I think the LF edge community is doing a lot with the blueprints to be able to sort through that and make it, let's call it more efficient, lower cost, and more secure to be able to realize that vision so this is a big part of why we joined the community. And so we have this multi pronged approach. We see a lot of the blueprints is resonating with us and we're really happy to be part of supporting the open source community. And then finally, just summarizing some of the things we've done in terms of participation were global and we have a lot of, let's call it, you know, places in the in the in the different standards bodies and different alliances, where we're starting to show up again, we've been historically a power company. Since I've come on for the last five years, we're shifting to an infrastructure company. And so we're looking at running from just space to space power and then space power networking. So those things really come together. And then computing is really what we hope to enable both at the edge, and anywhere in the networks where we might be deploying active view such as in building or maybe in some role, you know, opportunities around the world to connect the connected. So one of the things that I think is really important. And I know, you know, thinking forward in the future I've seen some of the hints in that direction is, when you look at the 5G Super Blueprint, you know how do you get through a 5G ran open source stack for the ran I think that would go a long way towards simplifying some things and then still keeping some of the differentiated requirements there, you know, set up for suppliers to really, you know, create value around the scheduler and other components such as that. With that, I am going to wrap up. I think, you know, I wanted to just be short armpit. I appreciate the opportunity. We're just starting our journey here in support of the open source community and we appreciate the time today and thank everyone for all the great work they've done today in the in support of, you know, not not only the historical work, but the recent work in enabling 5G and the wireless community as well. Awesome. Thank you very much. This was very insightful. I'm sure people have a lot of questions. I think I see a couple. There was a mention of CBRS and I think in one of your use cases, what are your specifics around CBRS in terms of demand or use cases or from a market perspective, what are your thoughts on that? You know, we've been part of CBRS for like, I don't know, six years I think when it was first CBRS Alliance and then now it's on go. We do retain a board membership there. And, you know, we've seen like with the pandemic, a real inflection point, you know, there's a little bit of 4G to 5G transformation issue that's going on that I think also causes some problems because, you know, you want to deploy today, you got 4G, but then you really want to make sure that the hardware and the network architecture is future proof to 5G. I think some of the underlying silicon and components are making that transition and especially as we get to disaggregated solutions. We're seeing, you know, a lot of demand. It starts out in pure private settings, right? There's a lot of work that's being done in factories and warehouses, those types of components and those types of locations. And also in fixed wireless, we see a lot of the, there's I think close to 300,000 CBSDs now deployed. There's an ongoing conference in Philadelphia, which I'll head over to right after this call to work with the CBRS community. There's a lot of, you know, outdoor or fixed wireless, you know, nodes that have been deployed in building, you know, we see opportunities as move beyond DAS and you take the architecture and scale it into a lot of tier two type properties, office buildings, healthcare facilities, hospitality. Those buildings have traditionally been outside in for lower frequencies. And when we move to 5G and mid-band and higher frequencies, in order to retain that quality of service between outside and in, you know, we think more properties will have to build in there and we think the architecture will shift from DAS to something more O-RAN-like and that's what we're proposing to support. So we see tremendous opportunity and the market's moving forward. There's a lot of players maybe get jumped out early, but I think that eventually settle and then you'll see some significant growth in the future. Great. I do have one more question, which is, you know, you're kind of sitting in a very unique position in the network, right? You're sandwiched with the RAN, you're sandwiched with the physical aspects of things, and then the cloud and the core on the other side, right? And you did mention the importance of open source and open source frameworks and sort of blueprints, right? Clearly, you know, as an organization in your space, you may not have all the skills of software, or you may be developing skills of the software. How important is it from your perspective, you know, the value of these frameworks and how much do you rely on the community to help you out on making sure that the software is kind of a critical part of the solution because, you know, it's kind of sandwiched. It's a good question. I think the way I look at this is a lot of the projects we are doing, we're trying to work with some of the new, more agile innovators, right? And not to say that other people are innovating, put a lot of R&D, but the traditional suppliers is an easy button, right? People can go to them and they know they'll get an integrated solution that works, and what we're trying to do is push the envelope a bit here. And so what it does is it means that some of these other players, there's a little bit of a risk, right? Will they be there long term? And when you think about depending on open source platforms, it gives you that confidence level that says there's a community behind it. So it's not just this one business. And then when I put those pieces together, granted, there's more risk and integration. But over the life cycle, if you look at some of the projects that the Linux Foundation is supporting, is how do you make sure that code base is going to be robust? How do you make sure that all of the CICD tools are there, the testing is there, at least with some of the blueprints? And that gives us more confidence that we're working with smaller suppliers. And I think it's important to encourage the innovation in the smaller suppliers. I think that's some of the premise behind O-RAN, frankly, is that I think it's like four or five OEMs support 96% of the wireless equipment globally. So those 100 billion plus investment goes to four companies, four or five companies, generally speaking, for the wireless network. So opening that up and having some additional innovation really is much more, I think, secure in an end user's mind when the open source community is also backing up those protocol stacks and the underlying software platforms and architecture. So that's an important element from my perspective. It doesn't mean we wouldn't use open source wherever we could. We're not putting it together necessarily ourselves. We're not at that low level of, like you said, we don't have the software team in place to do that. But we're relying on partners to do that for us. Excellent. Beautiful. Very insightful. And thank you very much for addressing this community here. Appreciate it. And thank you very much. Thank you. Enjoy the rest of the conference.