I've been through several major transformations, or pivots, while working in telcom. This began in the late 1980's when US West acquired the Nortel franchise, was followed soon by the evolution of routing and switching in the early 1990's. I then worked with interactive video, or video teleconferencing for the remainder of the 1990's until that became a commoditized market. The 2000's has seen the most recent transformation, which has been away from the more traditional aspects of telecom. The acquisitons of Savvis and Tier 3 at CenturyLink over the past 2 1/2 years has enabled myself as well as my team to move to a more holistic approach which allows us to look at solutions across the entire fabric of our customers in the NW Global Markets. We are now able to work with global enterprises on solutions that affect their voice, their data, their WAN, and their computing environment.