 Hi, I'm Dean Perrion, Executive Vice President of JSA, and on behalf of 1623 Farnham, I'd like to welcome Mr. Mark Shaw. Mark is the CEO of OPTK Networks and Mr. Todd Cushing. Todd is the President of 1623 Farnham. Gentlemen, thank you very much for taking the time to speak with me today. You got it. You got it. So let's just go ahead and jump right in. Mark, we're going to start with you. Why don't you start a little bit by telling our viewers a little bit about OPTK Networks. I understand that you've had a major rebrand, so why don't you tell us a little bit about that too? Sure. OPTK Networks is how you pronounce that. We went with the different spelling to set us apart, but OPTK is a little easier to pronounce. We're a fiber-based communications provider. We're business-only. We provide a carrier-grade service. We have very large internet connections out to the world, home back to several different geographic gateways in Omaha, Denver, Minneapolis, and Chicago. We also provide Ethernet backhaul for cellular carriers. Cell phones work best when that signal is brought down from the tower as soon as possible and transported over fiber. We provide Ethernet transport around the state and into the surrounding states. Essentially, we provide a high-speed, highly reliable, large bandwidth connection both in and out of the state for national and regional carriers, schools, government agencies, and businesses like banking and healthcare. Really, anyone who relies on their data connections in order to do their business is a good fit for our product. In terms of a really brief history, we're about 10 years old. We started by connecting some of the independent phone companies together, and then we built our own fiber from Shadron to Sydney and Sydney to Omaha. We also built some metro fiber in the towns we passed like Shadron, Sydney, North Platte, Grand Island, and we have extensive metro fiber in Lincoln and Omaha. We also have direct fiber access in many of the smaller towns that are along those same corridors. In regards to the rebrand you mentioned, we recently built fiber across the borders into Iowa and Colorado to provide additional routes and diversity for our customers there, and it was those connections and those other states that actually drove our rebranding effort. We're proud of our Nebraska roots. There's been no change in our ownership driving this, but we needed a name that was a little bigger, one that didn't imply geographic boundaries that no longer existed like NebraskaLink did, and that's how we landed on optic networks. Outstanding. So you mentioned some Denver info in there. Why don't you tell us a little bit about the new and exciting things that are coming out of the the optic, the newsroom with regard to Denver? Yeah, so our Denver route is about as new as it gets. We just finished that a few weeks ago. It's a completely new route from 1623 Farnham in Omaha to 910 15th Street in Denver. It benefits almost everyone in the state as it provides a diverse route between those two cities with on-off access points along the state or along that route. It also provides a much greater level of diversity. Prior to this route, almost everyone had to be on the same route between Lincoln or Omaha, and fiber cuts or any disruption on that path were very service affecting. And the only way to get a protect route was to introduce latency by taking the long way around down through Kansas City and around. Excellent. So guys, we're here to really talk about the partnership. And so, you know, that that partnership between optic and 1623, it wasn't, it wasn't, you know, born on a half instance. But so why did 1623 farm ultimately decide to partner with, with optic and vice versa? I think back in the day, it was, we sort of picked each other just by proximity. It was 1623 was an address. It's where other carriers were starting. But the Nebraska link now optic were in the first three that decided to come to that address. So they, they have built out several connection points from our facility to the locations that they were marked mentioned earlier. So we're, we're important to their network, which we appreciate. But we also see that they're part of our ecosystem of what we're trying to grow in our business and who we want to be. So that's their business evolved from what they were, and if more products, more services are added, it falls right in line with what we want to do. So it's, they've always been, you know, high integrity folks that commitment was good, was important, it was good to do a really have a relationship with. But we have found that the location sort of picked itself. And that's how they ended up there. Very good. Add to that quickly, you know, our decision to terminate the fiber out at 1623 was pretty easy. Like Todd said, we've been with them from the start. They're really they're the carrier hotel in Nebraska. They provide reliable and responsive service. We couldn't ask for a better partner. And so honestly, we didn't really entertain any other option. We always knew that we were going to terminate this fiber at 1623, even back to when we first started planning the route. Um, that's great. I mean, it's good to have those relationships, right? But why don't we talk a little bit about, you know, how the how the partnership ultimately helps your individual customer basis. And Tom, why don't we start with you? Tell us a little bit more about how that partnership again, helps your, your end user customers. You bet. So a lot of times people will come to us and we're neutral relative to carriers and who you might come with. But when we have a conversation with them about people can give them diversity and quality, it's it's about who optic is. So we felt that there was a good partnership there that we can hand people to them as an option. Ultimately, the client would pick, but it's not uncommon for the client to filter through options and decide to be with optic. The ability to grow their business grows our business. So that's really what how it works. It's a it's a win-win scenario. And that's that's really the basis of our business. And I can say from our side, many, if not all of our national and regional wholesale customers are co located at 1623 Farnham. Now, if we need to, we can put up new connections and in hours. Most of the government agencies we work with all have a presence there. We can do the same with them. And especially in the dark fiber world, if someone leases fiber, there's a good chance that they're already located at 1623. They're going to locate at 1623, or whoever they're going to connect to is there as well. And so it really, I mean, it was a logical choice. And I'm glad to hear that that the fiber route will help draw customers in for you as well. That was something we had hoped for. Like said, both of our companies getting started relatively the same time. It's been a great relationship. We've not even entertained looking anywhere else. You know, Mark, it's an impressive number of cross connects and interconnects you're doing in the facility. We really appreciate it. Thanks. Guys, thank you very much. A great, great synopsis on the relationship. We appreciate it. And we hope the best for you and hope that it's fruitful for everyone. So thank you very much for being with us today. Oh, thank you.