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Interconnections & the Escape From New York

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Interconnections & the Escape From New York

Gil Santaliz

CEO

See the original article by Carol Wilson here at Light Reading

July 22, 2022

CHICAGO – International Telecoms Week – “Escape from New York” seems to be an emerging theme at this massive event, where global wholesalers, subsea cable operators, data center and interconnect companies and network operators alike all meet to do business. Increasingly, that business is purposefully moving out of Manhattan, where once large carrier hotels like 60 Hudson dominated the landscape.

According to multiple sources here, cloud providers, carriers and enterprises alike are looking for diversity and the ability to avoid the vulnerability of taking the bulk of their traffic into the Big City.

Telecom Italia Sparkle , the international service arm of Italy’s TIM Group, today announced a “wet” fiber connecting the New Jersey Fiber Exchange (NJFX)directly to Boca Raton, Fla., from where it can offer direct connections to the Caribbean or South America, as well as the Equinix NAP of the Americas in Miami, a major interconnection point. A much smaller interconnection and colocation operator, 1025Connect , is here touting its Long Island-based facilities which next week will formally host DE-CIX Management GmbH , the Internet exchange company that is based in Frankfort, Germany, but is now boasting the highest number of North American access points, and will gain access to 160 networks with this move.

“What people are trying to do is avoid pinch points, and New York City is a pinch point,” says Gil Santaliz, founder and CEO of NJFX. What Sparkle is doing is repurposing a subsea cable it acquired with about eight terabits of capacity by connecting it to NJFX and terminating the fiber at Boca Raton, Fla., he explains. From either of those spots, traffic can go to New York and Miami, but it can also avoid those pinch points and go anywhere else including, on the southern end, to the Caribbean and South America.

“If there are two buildings in the US you don’t want to lose today, it’s NAP of the Americas and 60 Hudson St.,” Santaliz says in an interview here. “If you lose one or both of those buildings, it’s pretty catastrophic for the US and the communications industry. [Sparkle] just solved that problem.” Two other industry trends — carrier consolidation and the cloud explosion — factor into this deal as well, he notes. The former has reduced the number of operators building and running physical facilities along the I-95 corridor between New York and Miami, while the latter has reshaped where network traffic is going, making data center interconnection the priority.

“Ashburn [Va., an Internet and data center hotbed] didn’t exist 20 years ago when most of today’s fiber routes were put in,” he notes.

Subsea connections weren’t considered a cost-effective approach to handling telecom traffic when that major fiber buildout occurred, Santaliz notes, but the combination of the bandwidth boom and technology advancements is changing that.

Companies such as Crosslake Fibre are capitalizing on this trend by offering connections between Toronto and Buffalo that are partially subsea, and also connections between NJFX in Wall, NJ and the 1025 Connect facility in Westbury, NY.

Dan Lunde, managing director of 1025 Connect, notes that his company is more of “boutique carrier hotel” and much smaller than NJFX, but it is still capitalizing on the same trend of carriers looking for connections, especially to subsea cables, that don’t require dependence on Manhattan-based carrier hotels. 1025 Connect provides direct submarine cable access to six different transatlantic cable systems in its facility and five different Manhattan bypass fiber routes including those operated by Altice and Lightower.

“People want to connect in different places,” Lunde says in an interview. “They are looking for diversity. In our case, they can come from Europe, hit our facility and then go down to [NJFX] and avoid Manhattan entirely.”

DE-CIX is already selling Internet connectivity based on its 1025 Connect facilities, he says, offering connections to 160-plus networks in the New York metro area but also the ability to bypass Manhattan using — potentially — the Altice fiber route through 360 Hamilton Ave., in White Plains, NY, or the Cross Sound Cable System to New Haven, Conn.

Being based on Long Island also lets 1025 Connect offer lower-cost interconnection which Lunde says it enhances by charging only for space and power and not layering on multiple fees for cross-connections or point-of-entry. He calls it the “Stone Soup” approach to interconnection.

“We think that economically it makes more sense as well in terms of redundancy,” Lunde says.

— Carol Wilson, Editor-at-Large, Light Reading

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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.

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Telecom Re-Imagined: Sparkle’s Innovative Subsea Solution w/ Support of NJFX

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Telecom Re-Imagined: Sparkle’s Innovative Subsea Solution w/ Support of NJFX

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May 7, 2018

Bandwidth demand is on the rise in the Latin American market as more people look to communicate both in the region, as well as connect to the rest of the world. LATAM is also leading the globe with over $1.5 billion of new subsea cable investment in 2017 and 2018. The population continues to benefit from access to fast broadband infrastructure.  All of this activity makes for a lot of potential in the region for carriers, service providers, OTTs and enterprises to develop revenue growth and drive even more enhanced capabilities for the area. Sparkle is at the heart of this growth.

The company has invested in half of the Seabras-1 subsea cable – three out of the six dark fiber pairs – connecting New York to Brazil, and in doing so has developed a closed ring that has created diverse routes and secure, high capacity networks to meet this exponential bandwidth demand. What’s more, the routes bypass two huge, single points of failure: New York and Miami.

This application is supported of out of NJFX, the first and only colocation campus to sit at a cable landing station in the U.S and offer Tier 3, carrier neutral data center capabilities. According to Founder and CEO, Gil Santaliz, “Sparkle solved a problem that’s plagued the industry for more than 10 years. The company now offers a complete, diverse wet route all the way down to Miami. Now someone in Ashburn, VA can reach the Caribbean without going through Manhattan. The company has also found a way to get to the Caribbean and South America and bypass Miami and New York – completely avoiding two traditional pain points.”

Through Seabras-1 and the backhaul extensions from cable landing stations to main PoPs across North America and South America, Sparkle provides easy onward connectivity to the rest of world. The main advantages for Sparkle’s customers using its Seabras-1 fibers include lower latency on the US-Brazil route, which has been developed on a path completely off the hurricane risk area.

In addition to Seabras-1, Sparkle saw an opportunity to invest in a submarine cable to offer diverse routes via Florida and the Caribbean. Dark fiber on the cable was purchased and lit. “We needed a solution to connect this cable to Miami. We looked at many terrestrial solutions and nearly the whole environment options were not of high quality, so we decided on this underused submarine cable that runs from Tuckerton, NJ to Boca Raton, FL,” noted Federico Porri, CTO for Sparkle Americas. The result is a complete, diverse connection from New Jersey all the way to Sao Paolo with many secure, reliable route options and off-shoots along the way.

Solving Telecom Pain Point via Diverse, Wet Route

Sparkle studied the options carefully before determining subsea was the way to go.  One thing the company noticed that new terrestrial fiber projects from Atlanta going south – for various reasons – were not being completed.

Sparkle works with backhaul providers at NJFX’s colocation campus, offering a unique architecture, low latency options and secure connectivity. Customers can bypass the congested NYC metro area via Sparkle’s capacity at the NJFX campus, which resides at the Cable Landing Station in Wall, New Jersey – offering a diverse route and alternatives for disaster recovery planning. Fully integrated with Sparkle’s global backbone, the new route enables customers major benefits from lower latency to added diversity.

LATAM’S New Superhighway

The solution has been extremely well accepted by the wholesale community. With Latin America’s position as a hotbed of expansion amid improving mobile network capabilities and Internet options, growth is inevitable in this sector. “It’s like when you build a new highway,” stated Porri, “the restaurant on the way from point A to point B will see business grow as well.”

The capacity on the system will far exceed anything from older subsea infrastructure, with up to 7 terabits of total capacity and 800Gig ready at RFS. Latency is about 10 milliseconds faster than standard terrestrial routes, making it attractive for enterprises, financial firms, OTTs and carriers.

“Innovative leaders in the industry are finding ways to create something important and reinvent the way we do things. It takes a lot of creativity and that is how we will make our technology work in the future,” concludes Santaliz.

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About Sparkle

Sparkle is TIM Group’s fully owned Global Operator and among top #10 international service providers worldwide, with a proprietary backbone of around 530,000 km of fiber spanning from Europe to Africa, the Americas and Asia. Leveraging its global IP, Data, Cloud, Data Center, Mobile Data and Voice Platforms, Sparkle offers a full range of ICT solutions to Internet Service Providers, OTTs, Media and Content Players, Application Service Providers, Fixed and Mobile operators as well as Multinational Enterprises. Its sales force is active worldwide and distributed over 36 countries.

Find out more about Sparkle at www.tisparkle.com

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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.

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Zayo & NJFX: The Fast Path to Global Financial Markets

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Zayo & NJFX: The Fast Path to Global Financial Markets

Zayo’s Low-Latency Connectivity Extends to Financial Liquidity Centers in Europe, South America and Asia

See the original article on Zayo’s official website here

July 22, 2022

Spread Networks by Zayo can now offer low-latency connectivity from the U.S. to key financial centers in Europe, South America and Asia. Zayo has established a point of presence in the NJFX Tier 3 data center in Wall Township, N.J., providing direct access to the subsea cable systems and local fiber providers that terminate in the data center.

The new and strengthened global capability further demonstrates our commitment to the Spread Networks by Zayo product, providing low-latency, global trading solutions for customers in the financial sector. Spread Network’s flagship route offers the lowest latency and direct high-count fiber route between New York and Chicago. When combined with Zayo’s existing fiber routes, for coast-to-coast, low-latency dark fiber and lit fiber-based solutions, financial firms, as well as content, media and cloud providers, benefit from the low-latency, coast-to-coast network.

Most providers offer only a single segment of the global low-latency footprint. With the NJFX relationship, Zayo has the ability to provide an end-to-end solution tying financial exchanges in South America and Europe all the way to Asia. The solution combines Spread’s low-latency, on-net and partner connectivity with Zayo’s existing fiber footprint in the NY financial corridor and west from Chicago to Tokyo.

“Our vision is to provide a ‘one stop shop’ for customers who want to trade globally, alleviating the need to work with different vendors in each region they are operating,” said Brandon Gouin, general manager of Spread Networks by Zayo. “The expanded global capability extends and strengthens our unique value proposition in the financial marketplace.”

Spread Networks by Zayo is evaluating other low-latency opportunities, both fiber and microwave, to provide customers with additional options for the fastest, most reliable routes available across established and emerging markets globally.

“Our vision is to provide a ‘one stop shop’ for customers who want to trade globally, alleviating the need to work with different vendors in each region they are operating. The expanded global capability extends and strengthens our unique value proposition in the financial marketplace.”

NJFX is the only Tier-3 Cable Landing Station colocation campus in the U.S., with access to low-latency connectivity to the U.S., South America, Europe and Asia via multiple subsea cable providers. NJFX connects to more than one million route miles, both subsea and terrestrial, and more than one million square feet of data center space across 200+ countries and territories.

For more information about Spread Networks by Zayo, visit our website, or meet us at The Trading Show in Chicago to learn how Zayo can power your global trading strategy.

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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.

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Epsilon to Host Webinar on Serving Next-Gen Enterprise Cloud Demand

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Epsilon to Host Webinar on Serving Next-Gen Enterprise Cloud Demand

Leading network service provider and NJFX to discuss the growing forces that are creating a shift in networking service models, whilst illustrating the business case for SDN and API interoperability

See the original article here at Businesswire

April 17, 2018

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Epsilon®, a privately owned global communications service provider, today announced that it will be hosting a webinar entitled “Serving Next-Gen Enterprise Cloud Demand with Software Defined Networking” on Tuesday, April 24, at 10am ET. This webinar is exclusive to the industry analyst community and will focus on the evolving needs of the data center as applications including artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT and more are driving the always-on, connected world that we live in. With the global transformations that these applications promise to deliver, the connectivity model must also adapt in order to not stifle innovation.

“At Epsilon, we are working to proactively meet our customers’ connectivity needs, in partnership with data centers like NJFX. This webinar will allow both Epsilon and NJFX to have an open dialogue with the analyst community about the best way to address these needs.”

Epsilon is a cloud-centric network service provider, extending carrier grade connectivity services to communications and cloud ecosystems. The company offers networking capabilities that combine on-demand infrastructure, automation, web-based portals and APIs designed to enable global connectivity.

Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from Epsilon co-founder and chief executive officer, Jerzy Szlosarek, on the growing forces that are cultivating the shift in networking service models, whilst illustrating the business case for Software Defined Networking (SDN) and API interoperability that will serve the evolved enterprise networking needs. Gil Santaliz, CEO of NJFX—operating the only U.S. Tier 3 data center located at a Cable Landing Station (CLS)—will also participate in the webinar discussing how the two operators are working together.

“Emerging technology is forcing enterprises to reevaluate how they manage, support and store these applications. As a result, the data center industry must evolve to not only meet its customer’s current application and connectivity needs, but also those needs that have yet to be realized as technology continues to advance,” said Jerzy Szlosarek, CEO, Epsilon. “At Epsilon, we are working to proactively meet our customers’ connectivity needs, in partnership with data centers like NJFX. This webinar will allow both Epsilon and NJFX to have an open dialogue with the analyst community about the best way to address these needs.”

The webinar will be held on Tuesday, April 24, at 10am ET, and is exclusive to the analyst community. Registration is now open and can be accessed here.

About Epsilon

Epsilon is a global Cloud Centric Network service provider, extending carrier grade connectivity services to the world’s Communications and Cloud ecosystems. The company offers smart networking capabilities that combine on demand infrastructure, automation, web-based portals and APIs to give partners friction-free access to global connectivity.

All Epsilon services are powered by a next generation hyper-scalable global backbone which connects all the leading telecoms hubs globally. Across this fabric encompasses a dense ecosystem of carriers, service operators and cloud providers offering the leading interconnect point for a diverse set of network and connectivity requirements. For more information, please visit www.epsilontel.com.

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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.

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Nearly 300,000 New Jersey Higher Education Students Represented at Connectivity Event

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Nearly 300,000 New Jersey Higher Education Students Represented at Connectivity Event

Gil Santaliz

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March 29, 2018

New Jersey is a hotbed of tech and telecom activity. Companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google are either already making or considering infrastructure investments in the state due to the rich ecosystem of connectivity, data center options and a favorable business and technology climate. NJFX is working closely with enterprises, educational organizations, OTTs, carriers and service providers who want to be a part of this growth and leverage ways to:

  • Lower network latencies
  • Establish secure connectivity to the US, North America, South America, and Europe
  • Diversify their networks
  • Bypass the typical congested Manhattan routes
  • Access global connectivity from a Tier-3, secure and hardened facility that is protected as critical infrastructure under the Department of Homeland Security

To kick off another great week at Tier-3 by the subsea, NJFX had the pleasure of hosting NJEdge for a CIO Forum event. NJEdge aims to deliver and sustain a healthy, vibrant, and thriving technology ecosystem that is purpose-built for the communities that they serve. Through active collaboration, adaptive technology, transformative engagement and defined solutions, NJEdge has designed a national model of excellence in research and education networking in New Jersey and beyond. The event itself brought together 20 leading New Jersey CIOs, including those from Epsilon Telecommunications, Hammer Fiber and Tata Communications, and from colleges and universities representing nearly 300,000 students across their campuses.

Epsilon, a global connectivity and communications service provider, operates a carrier-grade, next-generation terabit optical backbone and has a presence in the NJFX colocation facility in Wall, NJ. To kick off the first presentation of the day, Carl Roberts, COO of Epsilon, introduced the company’s Global SD-WAN platform, which allows for pay-as-you-go international connectivity, available at NJFX.

The afternoon continued with Roberts and the Tata Communications team, who shifted gears and discussed bypassing New York City at NJFX. Through its proximity at NJFX, Epsilon customers can bypass congested and costly fiber paths in New York City coming from Ashburn VA, which has long been a choke point of data center connectivity. Furthermore, NJFX is able to provide the direct connectivity to the Ti Sparkle submarine cables from Brazil, which enter directly into the cable landing station Campus in New Jersey.

To wrap up the day, all attendees were provided an overview of the NJFX colocation facility, providing a first-hand understanding of the Tier 3 by the subsea high quality, secure infrastructure.

“NJFX is honored to host such a forward-thinking group,” commented Gil Santaliz, CEO for NJFX. “We look forward to continuing the discussion as our team drives next-generation connectivity solutions at the only colocation campus in the US located at a Cable Landing Station.”

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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.

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Latin America – Igniting the Subsea Activity Fire

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Latin America - Igniting the Subsea Activity Fire

March 22, 2018

The submarine cable sector has been heating up with new projects across the globe – stretching from the US to Latin America and Latin America to Africa. As reported by Capacity Magazine, Latin America is leading the sector globally with over $1.5 billion of new cable investment in 2017 and 2018. Gil Santaliz recently joined other industry experts at Capacity LATAM 2018 to discuss new subsea routes as well as the new owners of these fiber systems. “The shift of global network infrastructure is truly revolutionary,” commented Santaliz.

Moderated by Mario Quijada of Altman Vilandrie & Company, the panel entitled, ‘An Outlook into the Vibrant Submarine Cable Sector: What is Driving the Regional Re-emergence of the Submarine Cable Construction Boom?’ included the following thought-leaders:

  • Artur Mendes – Angola Cables
  • Eduardo Falzoni – Globenet
  • Mike Constable – Huawei Marine Networks
  • Gil Santaliz – NJFX
  • Larry Schwartz – Seaborn

Panelists discussed the drivers of the subsea cable boom, boosted in large part due to the increase in international bandwidth demand, which is doubling every two years. Another driver includes the increasing demand of over-the-top (OTT) applications across the region. The LATAM region in particular is seeing a lot of activity from subsea operators, carriers and telecom providers. Their common denominator? They are all are focused on addressing this very dynamic market that has huge potential for growth.

Seaborn Networks constructed and operates the new Seabras-1, which is a private 6-fiber pair submarine cable between São Paulo (Brazil) and New York (US).

Larry Schwartz, CEO for Seaborn stated that “having a single operator approach is better than a consortium. Deciding to have the Seabras cable land in Wall, NJ was an important strategic decision geographically as it avoided hurricane zones and provided flexibility.” Santaliz added that Seaborn did a ‘great job with its systemic refresh. The new Seabras cable route avoids hurricane prone regions, which is key.”

Artur Mendes, CEO for Angola Cables, a multinational telecoms provider, commented that “it’s time to look for non traditional opportunities and approaches in regards to infrastructure and cable investments.” Angola Cables recently launched the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS), which is the first subsea cable system in the Southern hemisphere directly connecting Fortaleza, Brazil to Angola in South-West Africa. Focused on LATAM growth, Angola Cables, along with other providers, is also constructing the Monet cable, which links Brazil to Boca Raton, Florida in the United States. Angola Cables is also opening a data center in Fortaleza, Brazil, which interconnects cables with a meet-me-room and enables connections to reach traffic from other regions.

Serving customers in North and South America for over a decade, GlobeNet owns and operates a subsea cable network that spans more than 23,500 km. The company’s data center in Barranquilla, Colombia was designed and built to meet growing demand for wholesale telco, high-speed data and IT services across the Latin American market. Providing a presence at the most important exchange points in the Americas, GlobeNet offers a full suite of IP, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and cybersecurity offerings, and empowers its partners to rapidly embrace new market opportunities by deploying high capacity, reliable networking services.

In addition, Huawei Marine is building a 6000 km South Atlantic Inter Link (SAIL) submarine cable in the South Atlantic Ocean. SAIL links Cameroon with Fortaleza, Brazil. The project is designed to provide low latency routing between Africa and Asia in the east and the Americas in the west.

Clearly, there are a wide range of projects offering diverse routes, high network availability, robust services and reliable connectivity in the LATAM region, and as Santaliz said, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. That’s how you avoid single points of failure.”

As for NJFX, operating the first and only Tier 3 carrier-neutral colocation facility in the US, it is positioned well to support all of this growth. The company, located in Wall, New Jersey has a high priority on the Interconnection of networks as its builds out to support new cable systems that are installing over the next 24 months. “NJFX plans to launch its expanded campus at the end of 2018 – Ready for Requirements,” stated Santaliz. “Exploring tenant build-to-suit options with power and operational independence, this campus uniquely sits at the Cable Landing with the most robust connectivity available in the US and interconnecting four continents.”

Santaliz is passionate about exploring how Latin America can work with the US and European marketplace – as the industry transforms with all of this new infrastructure. Seabras, coming up from Brazil, along with subsea capacity from Monet and BRUSA (Telefonica’s cable which connects Brazil with Puerto Rico and the US), makes NJFX the perfect hub for interconnection for South America, North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Santaliz added, “Capacity available in 2018 will be 10 times greater and pricing pressure will begin. The benefit is that Brazil will see a global marketplace open up.”

“It’s the carriers that really drive the environment,” commented Santaliz. “NJFX is just part of the solution. In order to be successful in today’s marketplace, specialization is key. Solutions that specialize in connecting Cable Landing Stations are going to play a pivotal role in pushing investments forward.”

As more fuel continues to feed the subsea industry fire, be sure to stay in the know for new submarine cable sector developments, developing trends and the continued drivers for global growth.

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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.

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Thought Leaders Align

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Thought Leaders Align

March 21, 2018

Keith Schofield is General Manager of the International Cable Protection Committee. Gil Santaliz is CEO of NJFX.

Speaking at the recent Submarine Networks Europe event in London, there are few better connected people than Schofield and Santaliz. And great minds, on this occasion at least, really did think alike.

Subsea Cabling Systems and the UK – A 64 Billion Dollar Concern.

Schofield and Santaliz agree on one thing. That subsea cabling systems must be recognised as critical infrastructure. And they were specific as to why:

“Subsea cables bring nations together, keep consumers happy and keep data safe. We are investing billions of dollars for the betterment of humanity,” said Schofield.

These comments come on the back of a new report claiming subsea telecommunications cables facilitate $64 billion of trade for the UK economy, each year.

And Schofield’s thoughts were echoed by Gil Santaliz, CEO of NJFX, who said that investment in the subsea cabling sector was critical to safeguard the security and prosperity of future generations.

“Fundamentally, we need the internet to work and for that to happen we need those subsea connecting cables to work. Today, Internet of Things technology is no longer a nice to have – it’s a must have,” he said.

What UltraMAP think.

At UltraMAP we are detail people. We deal with real-world facts and absolutes. To contextualise Schofield and Santaliz’s comments, the amount of trade and commerce facilitated by subsea cable systems for the UK alone exceeds the total value of the UK’s annual trade deal with China.

That’s big.

The Chain

And as committed as we are to what we do, we also understand that here ay UltraMAP we are merely a link in a chain. However, it is our job to keep the links of the chain connected.

That’s the only way the data can move. And the only way commerce can move. 64 billion dollars worth each year in the UK alone.

So is it worth leaving cables unattended? Unmonitored, even for a single minute of a single day? When a cable strike can happen in any single minute and on any single day?

We don’t think so. How about you?

See the original article at www.Ultra-Map.org

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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.

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NJFX CEO: “The Revolution Continues”

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NJFX CEO: “The Revolution Continues”

See the original article here at SubCable World

March 8, 2018

Editor’s Note: I recently had the opportunity to interview Gil Santaliz, CEO of NJFX. Gil is one of the new breed of professionals that is taking the submarine fiber optic cable industry in a different direction to meet the needs of a changing landscape; in NJFX’s case by bringing together submarine cables, cable stations, data centers and terrestrial fiber networks in an open environment. The following are Gil’s comments on how the industry has changed and where it is headed in the future.

There are a couple of things that are happening right now. First, the cables that were put in play around the year 2000 had a 20-year life. When they were built, many used the consortium model. So the providers that jumped into those systems had a lot of capex and a commitment to run those cables for a specific period of time. What’s happened is that those cables have now gotten to a point in their lifespan where the O&M exceeds the true cost of the cables – in terms of what they can charge for capacity on those cables.

I was speaking to members of one consortium whose cable was built at the turn of the century and the costs for keeping that cable working are twice what it would cost to buy the same amount of capacity on the new Aqua Comms cable (HAVFRUE).

Then you have these new players, the OTTs (over-the-top content providers), who are saying, “I can’t allow the telecom industry to hold me hostage under rules that limit my ability to scale. I’m going to lead the way. I’m going to get in front of the economics and I’m going to drive these new projects.” And that’s how you see Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others playing active roles in these new cables with a handful of selected carriers. Not everyone gets to play, only a few get to play this time.

Going forward you will find certain carriers will have economics that are much different than the rest of the pack. Those that have the right economics are going to be the leading carriers when it comes to those cables going forward; the rest are going to have to buy from those that have the access to those cables.

And because the cables now have capacity that is so much greater, we might see less deployment in Round 2 than the first time through, which means you’re going to have a bunch of carriers really lagging if they are not part of the projects.

There are a couple of important dynamics in the industry. This industry started with companies having monopolies. That’s the genesis of telecommunications – we began with the PTTs (Posts, Telecommunications and Telegraph) for countries that were basically given a monopoly for the territory. Everything evolved from that environment to an environment of deregulation where you had open competition, but inevitably, those that had the most assets still won. So as the system still benefitted the larger players, it was hard for the small guys to come in and compete. Now you have new kids on the block who don’t want to be held hostage with their application because some still have ingrained the monopolistic views and create price protection by, for example, picking systems that only a few providers have and have pricing set by one incumbent for the backhaul for them.

They’re saying “no, no, no!” This is an open marketplace with economics not only for the carriers but also for the guys who make the Internet work, and that’s the OTTs. So what we’re seeing is this revolution continue with new players coming in and pushing hard on the old guard and saying, “If you don’t play with me, you’re not in the game because I’m going to front these new projects and I’m going to pick the best operators to work with. Those that I know are reliable, that are willing to be open with me and we’re going to change the landscape of how these cables interconnect continents.”

One of the things that NJFX is proud of is to be a part of this new open architecture. Our cable landing station campus is not owned by a carrier. We don’t care how these guys interact in an open marketplace. This allows for a monopolistic view to go away. We allow competitive carriers to figure out price discovery on their own. We allow best of breed providers to interact with those on the submarine network and applications will flourish.

So the difference is an open marketplace. You have a new guard now, and the old guard is trying to figure out what it’s going to become because when you have a monopolistic business, you’re allowing for a lot of inefficiencies that are now being streamlined out of the process.

This is a changing environment, it’s a revolution we’re seeing in front of our eyes. The subsea telecom world changing. The landing points changing. And it’s more predictable than you think. If you sit down with Telegeography and look at all the cables that have been deployed in the past 20 years, you might want to guess the next cable announcement coming out.

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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.

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The Factors Driving Disruption in the Subsea Industry

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The Factors Driving Disruption in the Subsea Industry

Gil Santaliz

CEO

March 2, 2018

Subsea industry leaders fresh off a game changing conference have a lot to think about. Submarine Networks Europe 2018 brought together cable operators, carriers, builders and OTTs to talk about what’s ahead for the industry, what’s changing within the subsea sector and where we go from here.

Perhaps the most obvious development is the sheer number of projects currently in the works or on the horizon.  This is the second building boom since the internet came to be.  Before this latest round of new cable project announcements, when the internet was still in its infancy, the demand for capacity was nowhere near the levels it is today.  It’s becoming clear the current cable building boom is not only timely, but necessary. These new projects are as the most recent cables near their end of life.

“We are seeing the next generation of subsea deployments, not seen since 2000, which will support the next 20 years of as we experience an explosion in the amount of data that traverses the globe,” comments Gil Santaliz, Founder and CEO of NJFX. “These new cables have a new financial model driven by the OTT’s with fewer carriers involved. Some carriers will be left to operate in the secondary market only.  NJFX’s unique Tier 3 colocation model allows us to address the requirements that subsea cable operators have for higher capacity, reliability, security, and flexible interconnection options to North America, South America and Europe.”

Santaliz adds that it is inevitable that OTT players would have a huge role to play in the financing of future subsea projects and that the industry must learn to work with them. “Companies like Facebook, Google and the rest represent stable tenants for operators,” he says.

Today subsea cables are critical infrastructure completely necessary to keep up to date and functioning at the fastest rate possible.  “Fundamentally, we need the internet to work and for that to happen we need those subsea connecting cables to work. Today, Internet of Things technology is no longer a nice to have – it’s a must have,” Santaliz said.

The carrier- neutral model at the cable landing station is becoming very beneficial. Massive bandwidth demands and the need for highly reliable network infrastructure are driving the need to locate multiple subsea cable systems in one place. “There are huge economies of scale in this model,” continues Santaliz. “Operators are recognizing that it’s extremely hard to have all of these elements – elevation, backhaul optionality, and power in one place. A carrier-neutral CLS allows for a best of breed community versus the traditional monopoly carrier landlord model and paves the way for the new economy.”

It wasn’t that long ago that the Internet was just email.  Now it’s live broadcast, applications and services. “I expect to be in a driverless car in the next five to ten years, making my life a lot easier as I get older.  The last thing I want to hear is that my car won’t work because they lost some application that was being supported out of France or Frankfurt and there is no connectivity and the cars aren’t working.   We need to modernize our infrastructure to support how important it is that these things continue to work,” comments Santaliz.

 

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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.

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NJFX Spotlight on Epsilon: The Age of Digital Transformation

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February 19, 2018

Global communications are changing at a very fast pace in large part due to the rise of Internet of Things, video streaming, social media, big data, multi-cloud use and a ton of new applications. It is estimated that the total amount of data created by any device will more than double, reaching 847 zettabytes (ZB) per year by 2021. There is no doubt that telecommunications infrastructure must be bolstered to keep up. As seen, through a multitude of new subsea cable projects led by both content providers and telecommunications carriers.

Carriers and service providers are also positioning to meet this challenge by increasing capabilities and capacities for themselves as well as for their end-users. Epsilon, a global connectivity and communications service provider, operates a carrier-grade, next-generation terabit optical backbone and has a presence in the NJFX colocation facility in Wall, NJ. Its Global Interconnect Fabric includes a dense mesh of service providers, data center providers, subsea cable operators, internet exchanges and carriers.

“A lot of people are just now realizing that networking needs to be more fluid and agile than ever before. It’s the way it has to be moving forward,” commented Paul Verhoeven, General Manager Americas for Epsilon. With over 15 years of providing global infrastructure, Epsilon provides a foundation for the applications and ecosystems of the future. The company enables digital transformation and helps its partners to leverage new technologies and prepare for the future. Epsilon delivers connectivity and communications services globally via innovative automation, flexible portals and APIs. Its unique on-demand networking technology is deployed to over 90 PoPs, connecting 600 network operators and cloud service providers and has a reach to over 170 countries.

Enabling Innovation

Operating a Tier 3 carrier-neutral colocation campus, NJFX is an integral part of an ecosystem of key connectivity providers such as Epsilon, as well as new subsea cable projects and connects them all at the cable landing station where the cables make landfall. “Epsilon sees real value in working with partners like NJFX,” continued Verhoeven. “What Epsilon is presenting to the tenants in the NJFX ecosystem is the ability to turn up services in between our 90+ points of presence. All this can be done through our platform-based model which interlinks data center ecosystems to make it a much more fluid fabric. This is where companies can transit to clouds, other data centers and other carriers where ever and whenever they need it.”

To help providers and enterprises keep up with the fast pace of innovation, Epsilon is taking the ordering of bandwidth beyond the standard approach. “The whole industry is shifting,” stated Verhoeven. “We are removing the pain points that have been traditionally a part of managing network infrastructure. By providing the power that supports cloud services and allows all the apps to run on it, we can reduce lead times that used to take weeks and now spin up capacity in a couple of minutes.”

Epsilon enables services through an automated API function and offers an on-demand interconnected mesh fabric of subsea cable providers that stretches across North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. This allows organizations to turn up bandwidth when they need it – whether it’s to another cloud, data center, or to bridge the last mile.

With the rise of data intensive applications, organizations also need to migrate, back up and move data, often using larger bandwidth capacities and for shorter timeframes. Epsilon enables the connection of platforms and networks through APIs with a click of a button. Use cases include:

  • Data replication providers – help enterprises and IT departments move infrastructure into cloud services; for example, an organization may need a 10Gig pipe for only 3 months for the initial back up.
  • The rise of hybrid cloud usage – using multiple clouds instead of just one; can replicate data from one cloud to another or to a hosted service.
  • Data center operators – need to offer connections beyond space and power; NJFX offers direct interconnections to the Epsilon fabric.

Flexible models are also important as seen in the next-gen breed of managed service providers. Consumer and enterprise models are changing due to the vast amount of content and applications that are out there stemming from gaming, watching videos/movie content and more. For gaming companies, requirements can quickly change from 100Mbps to 10Gig. So, it is not always about deploying temporary bandwidth, but more about having the ability to scale as the provider’s requirements change and grow. In addition, these providers require certain traffic volumes to get to other parts of the world.

These use cases are a perfect fit for Epsilon. Enabling innovation, these scalable models translate to a new breed of next-gen managed service providers. As Verhoeven stated, “The industry is used to having on-demand capabilities with cloud computing and now Epsilon is enabling the agility of the network infrastructure to catch up.”

Epsilon is a true enabler, allowing companies to white label new platforms without investing in the DevOps and operations needed to support and manage them. By partnering with Epsilon, organizations can offload a lot of the time spent in development and allow organizations to transform themselves in this new age.

NJFX provides the flexible foundation that allows it to work with like-minded services providers, such as Epsilon, to transform global communications.

 

 

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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.

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