 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals I'm Laura Noland here in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii at PTC 20 Joining me now is Peter Hartlow the carrier sales director at Tampnet. Welcome Peter. Thank you very much. Happy to be here Wonderful first tell our viewers who Tampnet is what you do. So Tampnet is the world's largest offshore communication provider We're about 125 people globally With the headquarters in Stavanger, Norway offices in Houston, Aberdeen, Amsterdam and then deployed people in Dublin, London, Rio de Janeiro and Sydney actually So what we do is that we own and operate subsea cables in the North Sea. We have a radio Communication network in the Gulf of Mexico together with the 4G network and that is then replicated from the original network that we have in the North Sea So basically providing high-speed services out to the offshore industry Wonderful. So 2019 I hear was a pretty big year for you at Tampnet. Tell us about it So what we see especially on the oil and gas side is that they cannot move forward with digitalization unless they have the bandwidth and latency required and traditionally offshore industry we're dependent on Satellite communication, which is low bandwidth with high latency. So what we do with our network Either we connect with with fiber or point-to-point radio or the 4G that actually brings them to high-speed capacity on very remote locations Allowing them then to embrace Digitalization and what that means in practice is for instance concrete example IoT services with sensors you place on oil rigs or oil platforms and you can replace measurements At a oil platform from a you centralize it from shore and you can detect whether weather changes vibrations temperature so The cost savings and the potential for the oil and gas industry is quite interesting because it's cost saving and then you centralize all the information which Also enhance the security and security extremely important and costly to send people out So oil and gas is just in the beginning of embracing digitalization and I think that we will We will see that taking off quite quite interesting. So in a it's it's in a new process So and Tamnet making a difference making a huge impact in that industry I want to talk about now. I'm you being the first company Tamnet being the first company to leverage the Cobra cable Between Denmark and the Netherlands. So how is this helping your customers and as you move forward? So we operate actually in four different business units where oil and gas is one of them There is another business unit called international carrier international carrier utilizes the infrastructure or the C cables that we own and operate and then Expand with terrestrial fiber from the Nordics connecting key hubs down in Europe So, why do we want to do that? Well, we see in the future with the data center deployment happening in in the Nordics There is a number of OTT's hyperscalers that are already placed their data centers there and we see a huge Growth of the data center markets. Well, they need to be connected to mainland Europe, right? So You today everybody is running in the same ducts or fibers fiber cables So they niche for Tampnet international carrier has been to build unique routes Diversely from the existing Main highways and this is extremely important because of performance in your network. So the Cobra cable actually is Very interesting because it's completely unique Allowing data not to be transferred through Copenhagen, which is a pinch point Hamburg, which is also a dangerous area when so many networks are going through and it's coming into Amsterdam from the north which is really interesting. So the end-to-end connection. There is Amsterdam to to Stockholm a unique route Wonderful, wonderful. Well, I appreciate you sharing with us today and learning more about Tampnet Where can our viewers go to learn more about you and and hear about your exciting news coming up? So I would say follow us on LinkedIn or go to the Tampnet website We actually launching a new website in a couple of months. So that should be exciting. Wonderful. Well, thanks for joining us Peter Thank you very much