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Live from Metro Connect 2020, we are excited to welcome Glenn Johansen, President & CEO, of LightRiver, the premier provider of next generation, multi-vendor, Factory Built Networks® and netFLEX®, vendor neutral, Optical Domain Control Software solutions. LightRiver is an expert in Packet Optical, DWDM/ROADM, MPLS and Carrier Ethernet systems and designs, engineers, commissions, automates and...

Live from Metro Connect 2020, we are excited to welcome Mr. Todd Cushing, President, of 1623 Farnam, the leading network interconnect point providing secure, direct edge connectivity to fiber and wireless network providers, major cloud and CDN properties, content providers and Fortune 500 enterprises. 1623 Farnam supports mission-critical infrastructure and applications with the highest levels of...

Live from Metro Connect 2020, we are excited to welcome Mr. Tim Kiser, former Founder, CEO and now Consultant, for Colo Atl, and Mr. John Ghirardelli,  General Manager of Colo Atl and Director of U.S. Innovation for American Tower. Colo Atl, an American Tower company, is the leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation, data center and interconnection solutions at 55 Marietta Street in the globa...

Live from Metro Connect 2020, we are excited to welcome Mr. Steve Leavitt, Vice President of Sales, of Connected2Fiber, the go-to-market platform for network buyers and sellers powered by location intelligence. Connected2Fiber's Connected World platform details and displays deep, trusted location-based insight and empowers users to leverage that insight to automate go-to-market processes arou...

Live from Metro Connect 2020, we are excited to welcome Mr. Jim Morozzi, President & CEO, of DQE Communications, one of the leading providers of high-speed, data networking for businesses and carriers. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, DQE Communications is continually expanding its fiber-optic network, which currently spans thousands of miles, over 2,000 buildings and 118 business pa...

Live from Metro Connect, we are excited to welcome Bob DeSantis, Chief Executive Officer, at 365 Data Centers, a leading provider of hybrid data center solutions in 12 strategic, primarily edge, markets including Boca Raton, Bridgewater (New Jersey), Buffalo, Chicago, Commack (Long Island), Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Indianapolis, Nashville, Philadelphia, New York City, and Tampa, 365 operates faci...

Live from Metro Connect, we are pleased to welcome Felipe J. Alvarez, Chief Executive Officer, of United Fiber & Data (UFD), a privately held telecommunications company focused on providing high-capacity, low latency, geographically diverse fiber optic network solutions in the northeastern United States. UFD provides high-capacity pathway diversity and data storage redundancy far from the cong...

Live from Metro Connect, we are excited to welcome Keith Olsen, Chairman and CEO, of vXchnge, the leading data center-as-a-service provider dedicated to protecting global and emerging brands, while improving the business performance of its customers. Through its strategically sited, carrier-neutral colocation data centers across the US, vXchnge delivers unmatched reliability, scalability and secur...

Live from PTC'20, we are excited to welcome Sunil Gupta, Managing Partner & CEO, of Yotta, a 100% subsidiary of the Hiranandani Group. Yotta Infrastructure designs, builds and operates infinitely scalable Data Centre parks to manage India’s growing digital data! Located at major fibre landing stations of Mumbai and Chennai, our Data Centre Parks will offer 11 Data Center buildings with un...

Live from Metro Connect, we are excited to welcome Joe Cecin, CEO, of Hylan, a leading provider of full-service turnkey communications solutions and electrical infrastructure design and construction services for wireline, wireless and smart city municipal services across the United States. Hylan is the parent company to four divisions that include Hylan Datacom & Electrical, Hylan West,  Down...

Live from PTC'20, we are excited to welcome Peter Hartlow, Carrier Sales Director, of Tampnet, owner and operator of the world’s largest offshore high capacity communication network in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, serving customers within Oil & Gas, Wind Energy, Maritime and Carrier sectors with first class telecommunications.  With offices in the UK, the Netherlands, USA, Brazil...

Live from PTC'20, we are excited to welcome Frank McDermott, CEO & CoFounder, of CARMA, the ultimate SaaS network inventory and lifecycle management for carrier, colocation, and cloud operators. CARMA is the revolutionary tool built specifically for the telecommunications and data center industries that harnesses the power of relational databases to tie your inventory assets, customer ord...

Live from PTC'20, we are excited to welcome Jaime Leverton, Senior Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer, of eStruxture, a provider of network and cloud-neutral data center solutions designed with the capacity, performance and flexibility to run modern, demanding enterprise applications, and the control to rapidly scale in response to unpredictable changes in business processes. Headq...

Dean Nelson, Founder & Chairman and Jeff Omelchuck, Executive Director, of iMasons, a professional association of technologists and executives entrusted with building and managing the physical and logical structures of the Digital Age. iMasons is dedicated to the advancement of the Industry, development of their fellow iMasons, and empowering business and personal use of the infrastructure to...

Live from PTC'20, we are proud to welcome Mr. Ravi Mahalingam, SVP, International Business for HGC, to JSA TV. Ravi discusses HGC’s recent Macroview acquisition, the launch of its HGC Smart Digital Ecosystem and the company’s new International Telco-Services Marketplace that includes SDN and OTT solutions. HGC Global Communications (HGC) is a leading Hong Kong and international fixed-line ope...

With the onslaught of IoT and the growing reliance on AI-driven processes, networks and machines, cybersecurity is a critical concern. Enter blockchain, a distributed ledger that allows for public, decentralized transactions without the need for third-party intervention. Since the interaction is public, blockchain technology is often described not just as ‘reliable’, but also as ‘incorruptible inf...

Live from Telecom Exchange, Jaymie Scotto Cutaia interviews Sr. Director of North American Markets for DCD, Kurtis Friesen. Mr. Friesen discusses his takeaways from the CEO Roundtable on bringing 5G to the Edge and the increasing demand for data. He also provides an update of what's ahead for DCD in 2019, including the upcoming DCD events in New York, San Francisco, Dallas, London and Singapo...

Live from the Telecom Exchange's first 'Pop-Up' event, TEX Dallas, Jaymie Scotto Cutaia interviews Jordan Whyard, Director of Channel Sales for DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services. Mr. Whyard provides his takeaways of TEX Dallas CEO Roundtable, "Pushing 5G to the Edge," and offers insight into the latest news and...

At TEX Dallas, Jaymie Scotto Cutaia interviews Eric Ballard, Vice President of Network and Cloud for Stream Data Centers. Eric is excited to tell us about the rapid growth Stream is experiencing, and that the company recently acquired a 418,000-square-foot facility on 157 acres of land in Goodyear, Arizona, where it will establish a data center campus for hyperscale and enterprise customers in the...

JSA Radio Host Jaymie Scotto Cutaia sat down with Eric Gutshall, President of United Cable Company (UCC) at PTC'19. Eric is excited to unveil the UCC HUDSON BORE PIPE PROJECT, a privately owned, new fiber optic infrastructure connecting NYC and NJ avoiding high-risk, aging public bridge and pathways across the Hudson River. Set to operate in Fall 2019, the project is offered as dark fiber onl...

JSA Radio welcomes NJFX team members, Felix Seda, General Manager, and Roy Hilliard, VP of Business Development, to JSA TV. Following a hugely successful year in 2018, the gentlemen discuss the company's growth and accolades, including two recent industry award wins - the Global Carrier Award and TMT Data Center award. Mr. Seda also describes some exciting projects for NJFX, including the Hav...

Learn more about the 1623 Farnam data center and its benefits and capabilities for content, cloud CDNs and service providers.  Located at the nexus of the US, this edge interconnect facility has recently upgraded its core infrastructure and made significant expansions to accommodate growth.

Live from PTC'20, we are proud to welcome Mr. Braham Singh, CEO of Big Data Exchange (BDX), a brand of HGC Global Communications and content exchange platform built for OTT, content providers and mobile network operators. The new to market company, already boasts eight data centers on two continents. Mr. Singh describes the company's strength in acquisitions, having acquired seven of its...

Live from PTC'20, we are proud to welcome Mr. Oliver Jones, CEO of Chayora, a world-class infrastructure developer based in Hong Kong with a primary focus on building Data Centre platforms in China. Chayora enables international online companies to effectively access the vast and rapidly developing Chinese market.  Chayora is developing a series of hyperscale, fully licensed data centre campu...

Live from PTC'20, we are excited to welcome Mr. John Ghirardelli,  General Manager of Colo Atl and Director of U.S. Innovation for American Tower.  Colo Atl, an American Tower company, is the leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation, data center and interconnection solutions at 55 Marietta Street in the global telecom hub of Atlanta, GA. Colo Atl provides superior carrier-neutral coloca...