 the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Dean Perine, and welcome to JSATV. We are here in the windy city of Chicago, Illinois at the ITW 2016 show, and I am sitting with the CEO of Metro Optic, Mr. Michael Huchet. Michael, welcome to JSATV. Thank you very much, I'm glad to be here. Well, thank you for being here. We're gonna start by letting our viewers know a little bit about Metro Optics. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Okay, I'm very happy to do that. So we are a provider of strategic fiber solutions in Canada, and we have two businesses. We have the Metro Optic business, which is a fiber business, and we have a data center business that is branded ICE data centers, which stands for interconnection and colocation for the enterprise market. What's really special about us is that we have a very unique position in Canada, where we sit on the highway for the internet between Europe and the US. So much of the data flows through Canada because Hibernia just opened up their Hibernia Express cable, and among other routes, it much of the data flows through Canada that is destined for the US, but also is destined westwards towards Asia. Very good, so since we're talking a little bit about Canada, why don't you tell us a little bit about the interconnect center that you have in Montreal? Yes, so because we are at the nexus of the data flow, it's very important to provide to our customers a center where they can not only host data, but they can also interconnect to the eyeballs. So if you think about Canada, it's a large market, it's 40 million people, and so there is a business need to connect with 40 million people, but then there's also the business need to take your data further into the US and to connect to providers. So we provide the interconnection to short-haul, long-haul, and through the metro optic network within Montreal to the major enterprises and data centers. Fantastic, so that actually provides a nice segue for my very next question, and that is your targeted verticals, customers who are those targets? Yeah, great question. It's a bit of everything, but we see our strongest traction in the cloud market, and the cloud providers are in Canada for two reasons. One is that they have a very low cost to co-locate there. It's about four to five cents per kilowatt hour versus in the US where most metropolitan areas are three to four times that. But the other thing is also that they need to interconnect to get to Europe and to get to Asia, and it's a very neutral location. It's, Canada is obviously not subject to the Patriot Act, so many of our European clients take advantage of that and co-locate and then interconnect at our facility in Montreal to reach the eyeballs either south of the border or going westward. Very good, so lots of interesting things happening there, Metro-Optic, so excellent. So tell us about the interesting things that are gonna happen, say, in the next six months. What's new? You tell me. Well, I assume more great stuff, right? Yes, yes, more great stuff. We are opening another facility in Toronto. It's gonna be a very large data center, and we're building a very hush-hush connectivity strategy around that. We'll keep it hush-hush here, too. We'll keep it hush-hush, good. So it'll be a high-density interconnect center as well. And then we're continuing to develop our center in Montreal. So our big announcement is we just won Telio Sonera, which means that we have now four out of the five biggest IP transit companies as our customers, and that is critical, and we hope to have more to come. Outstanding, so for our viewers that are interested in knowing about the latest and greatest at Metro-Optic, where should they go? Well, they should go to our website, MetroOptic.com. I think that's a quite comprehensive website in terms of our products, but also our approach to business. Because we are at a global interconnection point, we speak English, we speak French, we speak Spanish, and we understand the needs of both our telecommunication providers. So for example, we have an AC and a DC plant on site. AC being enterprise class, AC, DC being carrier class, DC plant, and we also help them get to other locations through our own proprietary fiber builds. So in the dark fiber market, it is really a position that is now quite unique because we're the remaining independent provider in Canada. Very good, Michael, thank you very much for being with us here today. We greatly appreciate it, and thank you viewers for watching JSA-TV. We'll see you soon. Thank you.