 Welcome to JSA TV live the newsroom for data center and telecom professionals. I'm Barb Mitchell joining you today from data cloud global Congress here in beautiful Monaco and joining me is Michael Glenn senior vice president of digital automated innovation for console connect. Good afternoon. Yeah, thank you for having me. Thank you for joining us. Yeah, so tell us a little bit for our viewers about console connect. Sure. So console connect is one of the largest network as a service platforms. It sits directly on top of the PCCW global core infrastructure, which is made up of 70 plus subsea cable systems across 60 countries. So console connect is our automation platform which allows our customers to spin up layer to layer three connectivity between data centers clouds users or even different application partners that are on the network. Okay. I understand that you've just put out a new announcement of you know an offering for enterprise. Yeah, that's right. So as as a company like PCCW global as a carrier we're automating a lot of our core products. So as I mentioned layer to layer three is fully automated for our customers to self service, but also to spin up connectivity on demand. We're moving that from today. Today, we're live just under 1000 data centers across 60 countries where you can have access into the platform. And then what we've enabled is what we call edge port. It's to buy that access port at an enterprise building. So we've turned that on through 10 markets across North America, Asia and also Europe and South Africa that a customer can order a dedicated access port at any enterprise building. And then the network that sits on top layer to layer three, or even IP transit is all on demand. Turn it on 30 60 seconds, have it on for a day or an hour and then turn it off and you only pay for the service that you use. Nice. And you mentioned 1000 data centers. Is that what you said just under 1000 just under 1000. Yeah, so tell us about the service you provide to data center specifically. So within a data center, a user can buy access into our platform. Once in the platform, you can spin up which I call spin up or self provision services between another data center, so a layer two or layer three connection. Plus we've also interconnect. We've got just over 250 direct interconnects with all cloud providers in most areas around the world, including we're doing LaTan at the moment. So a customer can spin up a connection to their local cloud or cloud to cloud and they can turn that on and turn it off. So it's a dedicated interconnect, low latency direct route, non contended because it's through our private core network not over the public internet. And that all sits within our own core network. So what I you know I know a lot of people are going to want to connect with you and we want to make that possible. You know, and before we share that I just want to you know is there anything else that you we should be watching out for in the near future from console connect. Yeah, we continually growing, especially access into our platform now we've just integrated our mobility IOT platform. So we have a global SIM card, which you can turn on and turn off privately, but connect those SIM cards directly to cloud or to a data center privately through our network. So which means that you are securing your traffic and enabling quality of service for the end user who wants to run video voice across the core and self going over the public internet. So we we partner with many data centers that are here at the moment. We partner with them in different models. We have a partner connect partnership program. We work with the data centers through marketing webinars educational webinars to their clients about connecting to cloud and all of those sort of things. But also having console connect in there in their data center we're bringing all of that ecosystem to the data center. That's all the cloud interconnects. That's all our third party partners such as Cloud Flare all their platforms into the data center. So having console connect inside the walls of a data center. It means that where their customers can have easy access to a full ecosystem. Huge ecosystem connectivity and it's a global ecosystem that would span 60 countries. So you may have a user on the ecosystem, let's say in Chicago and another user, let's say in London and they want to interconnect on the platform to move traffic between two businesses. You can enable that on the platform and the provision time takes 10 15 seconds and you can have that service up for as little as one day. Brilliant. Yeah, it's perfect. Fantastic solution. That's great. Well, I'm sure that, you know, we've piqued the interest of a lot of folks already here. And I know you have a full week but for those folks that want to find you or connect with you either here this week or after the show ends, how should they do that Definitely. We're here this week. We've got the console connect partnership team who focus on data center partners, but also www.consoleconnect.com. We have a dedicated website. Have a check through there. There's videos, there's webinars that you can search through and everything like that. But you can also sign up to the console connect platform. Very simple. Click on the link sign up as an individual get some pricing have a look around. There's no commit until you start registering your business and wanting a particular service. What a great option. Very easy. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, it's been great having a great chatting with you. I look forward to many more conversations in the future. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV coming to you live today from the floor of Data Cloud Global Congress until next time.