JSA Podcasts | Data Center & Digital Infrastructure Insights

Live from PTC'20, we are proud to welcome Mr. Ken Adams, Vice President of Market Development, for netsapiens, your Smart Network Application People specializing in B2B unified communications (UC) solutions. 

Netsapiens supports service providers of all sizes, as well as large enterprises with existing network infrastructure who want to improve their operational efficiency and grow their customer base. Netsapiens' award-winning signature UC offering, SNAPsolution, is custom-built to offer a customizable, easy-to-use platform that can be quickly deployed for maximum ROI. 

Live from PTC'20, we are proud to welcome back to JSA TV Mr. Travis Ewert, COO of LightRiver. Mr. Ewert provides an overview of LightRiver and its two award-winning solutions, Factory Built Networks® and netFLEX®, and what the company is doing to bring them intelligently together. He highlights some exciting news from the past year, including a number of award wins, an exciting move to the iconic Bell Works building in New Jersey, and more. Watch the video to see what's ahead for the company in 2020!

LightRiver is an expert in Packet Optical, DWDM/ROADM, MPLS and Carrier Ethernet systems and designs, engineers, commissions, automates and supports next generation, software controlled, transport networks.

Live from PTC'20, we are proud to welcome Mr. Jeremy Villalobos, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, for Gold Data, a leading telecommunication provider with presence in 11 countries in The Americas and The Caribbean.

With more than 19 years delivering network solutions to corporate clients and global carriers, Gold Data relies on its fully owned award-winning network infrastructure and extensive partnerships to provide Network Solutions, Cloud Connection, Broadcasting (video transport) and Network Security in more than 40 countries in the region.

Live from PTC'20, we are proud to welcome Mr. Doug Recker, CEO of EdgePresence, an owner and operator of multi-tenant, edge computing points-of-presence (PoPs), providing space, power, bandwidth, and interconnection. EdgePresence is currently deploying its EdgePod data centers across 20 markets throughout the U.S. 

EdgePresence is serving as a turnkey solution for businesses looking to implement a flexible and dynamic edge compute strategy, nationally. Along with its Cell Tower partners, EdgePresence will build, deploy and operate hundreds of micro edge data centers across the United States with initial markets in Jacksonville, FL, Austin, TX, Pittsburgh, PA, Waycross, GA, Denver, CO, Atlanta, GA, Boulder, CO and Greenville, SC. 

Live from PTC'20, we are excited to welcome Dean Nelson of Dean Nelson, Inc. to JSA TV.  Mr. Nelson talks about his 30+ years in the industry and transformative changes-- or lack thereof-- you’ve seen impacting our network infrastructure and connectivity layer. 

Mr. Nelson also dives into how data centers need to drive options for customers that go against the last two decades of thinking, emphasizing that Software-Defined is the future. He also discusses goals, we should commit to as an industry. 

Live from PTC'20, we are excited to welcome Mr. Raul Martynek, CEO, of DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, cloud, and connectivity services, offering customers 100% uptime availability of data, applications, and infrastructure. 

DataBank’s managed data center services are anchored in world-class facilities and their customized technology solutions are designed to help customers effectively manage risk, improve their technology performance, and allow them to focus on their core business objectives. DataBank is headquartered in the historic former Federal Reserve Bank Building, in downtown Dallas, TX.

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 colocation, data center and interconnection services at an affordable rate. 

Colo Atl is a carrier-neutral environment that allows all types of network operators to securely and conveniently cross connect within a SSAE 18 certified facility. Colo Atl has no monthly recurring cross connect fees between tenants within the Colo Atl meet-me-area (MMA) and provides exceptional customer service.

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 campuses in key locations across China: initially in Tianjin to serve the greater Beijing and northern provinces; and in Shanghai to serve the eastern provinces.

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 eight data centers, and what's ahead for the company in 2020.

The BDX platform is readily connected and peered with Hong Kong, Mainland China and international carriers networks, various data centers and Internet Exchanges (IX) around the world, as well as BDX's own IPX platform which contains rich eyeballs from Mobile Network Operators (MNO) worldwide.

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.