 This is JSA TV the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Dean Perine and welcome to JSA TV We are coming at you on location at itw 2018 in the windy city of Chicago, Illinois And I am here with mr. Vincent English. Vincent is the CEO of Megaport did I get that it is the CEO? I looked down thinking did I say that wrong is the CEO of Megaport Vincent welcome to JSA TV Thanks very much Dean lovely to be back here again outstanding. And so how's the show going for you so far good very busy Very busy day yesterday and and yesterday evening. We hosted our event here last night. So it was well attended So we're really happy with that with our partners and Attending and so that was really good I'm busy day today and tomorrow is just as bad Just as bad. I love it. I know my feet are about to fall off I can only imagine how yours must feel but Vincent for our viewers that don't already know Why don't you tell them a little bit about Megaport? Sure? Yeah Well, since its foundation the whole idea was to increase connectivity to cloud service providers And we're in a data center footprint, which we've connected and built out geographically today to over 200 locations We're enabling cloud service providers to connect to customers in a very seamless and easy to go fashion In burstable speeds pay as you go and in a very flexible manner that allows the same way that they connected a cloud service provider That the networking is now managing and mirroring that same experience So it's basically to make it very simple and easy for customers to consume the cloud Outstanding. So let's stay on the the cloud theme there. So what you recently announced your ability to support hybrid Network connections to Google cloud. Why don't you talk to us a little bit more about that? Sure? Yeah, Google has been one of our long-standing partners since we founded the company back in 2013 So people know about Google then they've heard of Google before they've been around So Initially, their product was a layer three level which was a Google GCI And all recently I think it was about two weeks ago at this stage They've announced their layer two or a direct connect version called a Google cloud Interconnect partner and so we've been working with them very closely over the years and in the integration with Google On their new product at layer two level where we're deeply integrated And I've done some beta testing with them as they've gone through that with their product We were there to help them launch that product across our large platform and across 10 actual nodes on their launch day So that was really important for us and equally very important for for Google themselves and so much so that we had we had over I think it was five or six customers within the first two or three hours Already using the product, which is great That's outstanding actually. That's pretty great. It's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so it's going well It's going really well outstanding. Okay, so I'm I'm gonna go ahead and name-drop a little bit. Obviously Google AWS Oracle Office 365 all of these All of these are you know partners customers and people that you are working with, you know What does what does having that kind of roster those names in that roster? What does that what does that mean to your customers and do for your customers? How does it help you do what you do? Yeah, look, it's very important We've spent a lot of time the power of our portal itself and Creates a creates a kind of one-stop shop and what we've done with each one of those partners is we fully integrated them And so we've actually gone straight and integrated into their cloud platform directly And so when a customer connects across Megaport, they're able to easily access access each one of those services And and so for us and for our customers It means then you don't have to build your own network You don't have to find your own private way of connecting to it that we're able to actually make that very seamless and easy So our customers have an easy experience for the cloud service providers themselves It allows them quicker and greater access through our footprint and locations to actually consume their cloud products So, um, yeah That's pretty awesome And a nice a nice very simple way of understanding, you know the fact that you've got those names You know those logos kind of in your fold means better bigger and better things for your customers Yeah, I look at it's important, you know, sometimes we have to pinch ourselves to I mean There's a credibility factor here too that we have we've a great platform No great software engineers and engineers to help to build this on both sides I think that's real endorsement for us in our company You know small companies starting out in originally in Australia, but as we've grown We're bringing large technology companies as part of our ecosystem and that's because the product works and here So let's talk about that ecosystem, you know, you've got a very very large ecosystem them So, you know, what does that mean for service providers? Um, it means reach it means extension so that not only Customers in honor ecosystem not only going to connect to a cloud service provider But can also connect to manage service providers other service providers or even just content providers And that allows that effectively allow easy connectivity. Um, so for the cloud service providers themselves and applications and storage and all of those features that they've got are now readily available and not only that the match Like I said earlier on match the way they're consumed and very easy for them So it's it's it's an all-around. It's it's all hand-in-hand that works together inside the ecosystem Vincent, thank you very much But I want to talk a little bit about the future. What do things look like for Megaport say six to twelve months down the road? What can we expect to hear from you this time next year at ITW? Lots of exciting things. That's one thing we seem to be good at You are very good at that absolutely You know, we we launched our new product MCR back in January just around PTC time And that's gone really well and that allows Allows us to actually go from cloud to cloud connectivity now And that's that's going to be a really important development in the future And we see that as mid data needs to be used more and more It's not just in stores where data moves to and the facilitation of that is really important So we'll be focused a lot on that Today we're in 209 locations or nearly 110 on-ramps. I think I'm not really sure changes every day So, you know, we're planning to be in 300 locations by the end of June 2019. So, you know, we're Yeah, that'll be big as well You know, so we're going to continue to work with our cloud partners and they're enriching our ecosystem and bring I'm more partners. So there's a lot of it's a three-way kind of player. Yeah, so yeah It's very exciting, but very busy, which is great Vincent. This has been excellent. Thank you very much Let's do it again next year. Shall we? Yeah, thanks very much Dean and folks Don't forget the port little Megaport is Megaport dot al Megaport dot al you heard it from from me and from Vincent and also don't check out or don't check out Do check out Vincent's video that he did with with our fearless leader Jamie Scato Kataya at PTC just a few short months ago, right? Yeah, back in January. Yeah, excellent. Excellent. Okay Have a great rest of the show. Okay. Thanks very much Dean. You got it You got it and thank you viewers for watching JSA TV. We'll see you soon