 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcasts, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Barb Mitchell coming to you today from PTC 2022 in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii. Joining me is Melada Abdul-Misi, VP of Business Development for KDDI and Telehouse. Welcome, thanks for joining us. It's a pleasure to be here. It's great to be back right in person. Absolutely. In Honolulu at PTC. That is for sure. In a couple years. Yes. Yes. How's the week been going for you? It's excellent. You know, we've had some very good meetings. There's not as many attendees but I feel it might be a little bit better than being so crowded. I've heard that, yeah, from people. Really quality interactions, quality meetings, time well spent. Yeah, we don't have to rush the meetings. Lots of 10-15 minute meetings and we're able to take our time. Yeah, so true. So for our viewers who don't know, can you tell us a little bit about KDDI and Telehouse? Absolutely. So KDDI is a Fortune 300 company. We are one of the largest telecommunication companies in Asia. We operate fixed lines, wireless, mobile data centers. We also do IoT business, digital transformation. So we are a full service telecommunication company from A to Z and we're able to support all our customers with all of their telecom needs on a global basis, not just in the Asia region. And I understand you've recently been recognized by Data Center Magazine as the top 10 in, you know, respect to the global collocation work that you do. Yes. So we were nominated for top 10. We actually received award as one of the top 10 for our data center presence, global data center presence. So we operate over 42 data centers around the globe and we were able to be recognized and receive the award because of our site selection and our connectivity capabilities in those data centers and in those markets. So that's our key differentiator and our key objective is being a connected data center in those markets. And I understand that you have built out some new sites recently, London, Marseille, Bangkok, I mean really widespread development. Can you talk about that? Yeah, absolutely. So last year we turned up our Marseille site. This year we're planning to turn up another site in our backlands campus in Q2 of this year. And we've just announced actually about two weeks ago that we are building a new data center in Bangkok, Thailand that will be live Q3 of next year. And that is poised to become the most connected data center in Thailand. Wow, that's an impressive milestone. And I also, speaking of milestones, understand that your NIACS internet exchange is celebrating an anniversary. Yes, so our NIACS internet exchange was founded in 1996 and that was the infancy of the dot-com, right? So there's actually seven percent of the people using the internet today. That was the entire usage. So now we've grown to become one of the largest internet exchanges on the East Coast. And it's amazing that we're celebrating our 2050 anniversary. We've been able to grow the market there very well. And we have over 250 peers. We operate in 10 hubs across the US East Coast and on the West Coast. 25 years. That is how time flies, right? Yes. So you've been busy. There's been a lot and a lot still on the horizon. Talk to us about 2022 and we're just kicking off the year here. What's next? So 2022 is a very exciting year. Our headquarters where we're doing a lot of 5G work, our IoT work and connected cars as you probably have seen. We do connected car business for multiple large manufacturing companies and also the IoT is one of the next stages but also our data center expansion, like I mentioned earlier. So it's a very exciting year for us and actually for the entire industry to be quite frank because the demand is only growing. We're not seeing it slowing down at all. So it's fun, exciting and challenging at the same time. And you guys are ready for it so. Absolutely. That's what we do. We have to be ahead of the game to be able to support our global customers' needs. So for our viewers who want to stay up to date on all this great news and all this great development, where can they go? Please visit our websites. Our websites, we have all of our information published there. All of the new and upcoming and developing items are always listed in our site and you can follow us and you'll receive all of that information as it comes out. Yeah, great. Thank you so much. It's really a pleasure to see you and to chat with you today. It's a pleasure to be here and thank you very much for your time. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts. Happy networking. Mahalo.