 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcast, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Laura Nolan here in sunny Miami, Florida for Metro Connect USA 2022. Joining me today is Jason Atkins, the CEO of Unite Private Networks. Welcome back to JSA TV. Thanks for having me. So you are recently appointed CEO of UPN, Unite Private Networks, but you've been a leader there for almost a decade. So how's the ride been so far being CEO now? It's been great. You know, we have an awesome team there. So just kind of naturally ascending to the actual CEO's role after Kevin Anderson, our founder retired, has been in the works for a while and it's great again. We've got an awesome team. So no issues and everything's running very smoothly. I haven't messed it up yet. Perfect. And you won't either. Well, lots of news coming out of UPN, expansions in Little Rock, Arkansas, Rockford, Illinois. I'm just making sure I get those correct because you've got multiple expansions that were underway. Tell us an update if you could about those expansions and what's happening with those. Absolutely. We, you know, for many years have been doing a lot of various anchor deals, wireless carriers, schools, other things. So we sort of have a collection of markets that we may have had for several years, but we haven't been actively really looking at enterprise business there. So every year we pick a couple of markets to launch. Little Rock's been in our repertoire for a little while. Rockford is fairly new. We put those into our carrier on-net lists, near-net lists, and then start selling enterprise services there. We've built our great markets underserved and you'll continue to see us do many of those. We're looking at a bunch of stuff in Texas and sort of all over the Midwest. When can we start to see some of those other expansions come through 2022 or what's your timeline? We'll probably announce a few others in 2022 and then kind of each year we have a couple we bring out. And most of these are organic expansions. You know, we've done some inorganic things in the past, but right now we have really good growth with organic stuff that we control ourselves and that's the best way to do it we think. Wonderful. So you're here at Metro Connect talking with a lot of industry leaders here. What are some of the hot topics or maybe some of the topics that you're watching closely in the trends in the data center industry? Yeah, you know, obviously the industry itself has really good tailwinds, right? You know, the pandemic proved out communications are very important. A lot of things moving to the cloud, people working from home. So, you know, we're a fairly simple business. We offer big connectivity and fiber. You know, there's some interesting trends and various things going on. But you know, right now it's just execution. We're all worried about prices rising. It's hard to get equipment these days. So there's a lot of things out there as operators. We really have to kind of, you know, look at and figure out, but it's all things we've done before. And again, at the end of the day, it's a product that people want to buy. So I think all of us here at this show, you know, feel very good about the industry we're in. Sounds great. So there is more to come definitely from UPN this year and beyond. So stay tuned to the latest developments. Where can our viewers go to learn more about those developments? They can hit our website, uniteprivatenetworks.com, our maps and all the info are up there and we'd be happy to work with anybody that's sort of in our region. So. Well, thank you very much, Jason, for joining us. Thanks for joining us here on JSA TV. Thanks for having me. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA Podcast. Happy networking.