Gil Santaliz to Speak at Capacity North America 2016 - NJFX

Gil Santaliz to Speak at Capacity North America 2016

October 15, 2015

NEW JERSEY FIBER EXCHANGE

Gil Santaliz is the Founder and Managing Member of NJFX. Mr. Santaliz developed the vision for NJFX as one of the most unique locations possible for secure global connectivity with the lowest latency between three continents.

Mr. Santaliz was previously the CEO, Founder and Managing Member of 4Connections LLC, a metro fiber network provider which he founded in 2001. Under Mr. Santaliz’s leadership, 4Connections pioneered New Jersey regulatory issues as the leader in the deployment of a carrier-neutral dark fiber services for New Jersey and New York City. Dark fiber services were provided to carriers, financial service firms, exchanges, health-care networks, education, state and local government institutions. Mr. Santaliz successfully exited the business in a preemptive transaction in 2008 with Optimum Lightath a wholly owned subsidiary of Cablevision.

Prior to founding 4Connections, Mr. Santaliz, who has over two decades in the communications and energy industry, was the General Manger of a joint venture company between GPU Telcom and Telergy which leased dark fiber network.

Previously, Mr. Santaliz was Vice President of Business Development at iCentennial Ventures, a New York-based Internet Incubator.

During his early career, Mr. Santaliz held several management positions at the Williams Company, PSE&G, and started his career at MCI in New York, Atlanta and Mexico City.

Today, Mr. Santaliz serves on the Morristown Medical Center Foundation Board and the Board for the Morristown Beard School. He has also recently led as Interim CEO of Fiber Companies such as 24/7 and supported private equity groups such as Spire Capital through acquisition strategies.

Mr. Santaliz received his Bachelor of Science from Cornell University.

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About NJFX:

NJFX is a Tier 3 Carrier Neutral Cable Landing Station campus. Our colocation ecosystem has expanded to over 35 network operators offering flexibility, reliability, and security. Our Wall, NJ location provides direct access to multiple subsea cable systems giving our carriers diverse connectivity solutions and offers direct interconnection without recurring cross-connect fees.

Eastlink is excited to expand our network into NJFX’s robust telecom ecosystem. This will provide diverse routing for key destinations such as Ashburn, VA while avoiding the congested NYC metro area."

We are pleased to be participating in this unique, carrier neutral ecosystem NJFX has created to deepen our relationship with the wholesale carrier community as well as provide the enterprise customers optionally for access to diverse terrestrial networks and our Seabras-1 subsea cable system. This is an exciting opportunity to reach new customers with flexibility and scale while driving end-user enablement at this world-class facility.

We are continually looking for ways to strategically expand our offerings to customers, through our new Point-of-Presence at NJFX, we have added another critical location to address customer’s growing requirements for access to our advanced and powerful global network, including our extensive fiber footprint in the U.S., which is now available coast-to-coast for wholesale customers.”

Our collaboration with NJFX gives Colt customers rapid access to critical digital infrastructure and satisfies the diversity and low latency needs of some of the most demanding customers in the financial sector,

On-Demand connectivity opens incredible possibilities for different verticals or even carriers looking to expand into Latam while minimizing risk and cost of entry. With this unique offering we are introducing a new way to improve the traditional model, providing the right flexibility and dynamicity to scale resources as needed”

As we embark on this strategic partnership with NJFX, we’re not just connecting infrastructure; we’re forging a pathway for our customers to traverse the digital landscape faster and more efficiently than ever before. We are excited to be partnering with NJFX and this collaboration amplifies opportunities for our customers to access Europe with unprecedented speed on the EXA network. We are committed to providing cutting-edge solutions in today’s digital era that is defined by connectivity.

We are excited to expand our network to NJFX. Today’s network expansion furthers our goal of providing more connectivity globally to as many enterprises as possible, while satisfying critical bandwidth demands.

United Fiber & Data is excited to bring our geographically diverse fiber network and flexible, low latency lit services of 10G and 100G to provide secure, high capacity network connectivity to NJFX and its clients. United Fiber & Data’s fiber infrastructure and scalable capacity on its unique route and the ability to turn up services quickly positions us to be the provider of choice for secure, high capacity, low latency network connectivity.

Establishing a PoP at NJFX provides Console Connect and PCCW Global users with access to direct, low latency routes to major business hubs along the east coast. At the same time, we are excited to bring Console Connect’s on-demand global connectivity to NJFX customers, who can experience the agility and flexibility of Software Defined Interconnection®.

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