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The Big Benefits of Carrier-Neutral Cable Landing Stations

Gil Santaliz, Founder and CEO of NJFX and Mike Hollands, Director, Market Development & Strategy at Interxion look at the importance of carrier neutral facilities in today’s competetive subsea cabling sector

See the original article by Chris Kelly at Total Telecom

February 14, 2018

The landscape of today’s Cable Landing Stations and their role are rapidly changing. Gil Santaliz, Founder and CEO of NJFX, believes the future of Cable Landing Stations lies within building a community where a healthy density of diverse networks is created and attracts other infrastructure development. Along with that, a carrier-neutral facility is ideal. “A carrier-neutral facility allows carriers to collaborate in an independent environment, each on an even playing field,” states Santaliz.

Mike Hollands, Director, Market Development & Strategy at Interxion echoes those sentiments, “A submarine cable that terminates in a carrier-neutral data centre secures commercial and operational benefits for the cable’s owners and consortium members. From a commercial perspective, the carrier-neutral data centre operator ensures a level playing field for all parties, removing the high commercial costs often associated with cable landing stations that are owned by one specific carrier,” Hollands adds.

There is a definite need for networks to interconnect, and the benefits of carrier-neutral facilities are clear. Operationally, because the carrier-neutral facility is home to multiple networks, content providers and service providers, the process of establishing cross connects to partners is more efficient. The connections themselves are more resilient as they are delivered within the security of the data centre itself. Carrier-neutral facilities increase the likelihood that any submarine cable project will be a success.

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,” states 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.”

This infrastructure allows for the ultimate in network reliability by having multiple options to leave a cable landing station. In the U.S., NJFX has taken on this model. In Europe, Interxion is using this model. There are others working to replicate this around the world. But to be a true carrier-neutral facility, and to play a significant role in the development of the submarine cable sector, there is criteria that needs to be met. “Firstly, the data centre must operate in a deregulated market, enabling vibrant competition between service providers that can connect the data centre to other key locations,” states Hollands. “Secondly the datacenter must develop a community of clients within the facility that value proximity to the submarine cable landing point. These clients need Tier 3+ data centres with the ability to handle growth in IT infrastructure deployments over the long term. Interxion Marseille, and NJFX are examples of data centres that fulfil these criteria, and hence have become the interconnection points for multiple submarine cable systems.”

Security is also of utmost importance to the carriers who interconnect at these facilities. Security is taken very seriously by both Santaliz and Hollands. And the industry addresses the issue very well. Multiple systems are often built by submarine cable operators between key destinations, not just to manage capacity demand, but also to provide carriers and content providers with route diversity. The intention is to have an underlying base of diverse routes upon which carriers and content providers can build resilient networks that divert traffic from one system to another in the event a system is subjected to accidental or deliberate damage.

“The increasing trend to terminate submarine cable systems in Carrier Neutral data centres, with all the data centres’ inherent layers of physical security, is more evidence of the operator’s focus on security,” states Hollands.

”Being an operator is a privilege and a process in the United States. It’s taken seriously and supported by all the government agencies involved, including the Department of Homeland Security. Global infrastructure is something the U.S. pays a lot of attention to,” adds Santaliz. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has designated NJFX Protected Critical Infrastructure.

The significance of a carrier-neutral facility, within a healthy community that has access to diverse routes, resilient systems and tight security, is going to be front and center as the cable building accelerates to meet the huge increases in traffic flows between continents.

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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.

Why subsea cables are crucial for our connected future

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Why subsea cables are crucial for our connected future

Subsea infrastructure is only going to increase in importance as demand continues to leap.

See the original article by Ellen Tannam at Silicon Republic

July 22, 2022

The world is becoming an increasingly connected, always-on place and, while much is made of the scale of communication it enables, the infrastructure that props up this technological revolution is often less of a focus.

Subsea cables – a vital cornerstone

Subsea infrastructure is one of the key enablers for the international network interconnections enabling all of our connected devices.

The Havfrue cable is a subsea fibre-optic system that will connect New Jersey, Ireland and Denmark. A collaboration between Google, Aqua Comms, New-Jersey-based colocation firm NJFX, Facebook and others, the Havfrue cable will build major global capacity.

Siliconrepublic.com spoke to NJFX founder and CEO, Gil Santaliz, about the future of subsea infrastructure.

How is the subsea landscape being revolutionised by big-data demands?

We’re seeing investment at record levels, similar to pre-2000 levels, for subsea networks. We’ve never seen this type of investment before in subsea cables. Google just shared that they spent $30bn on subsea systems alone.

How is NJFX going to be crucial to the Google subsea cable project?

NJFX has created an opportunity for any subsea system to have a place to land that is carrier-neutral, with hardened security, reliable power and access to a multitude of US carriers to provide connectivity across North America.

Can you comment on how communications technology has evolved during your time in the industry?

When I started, we were paying a quarter a minute for a long-distance call; you had pay phones for when we weren’t at home.

The average price of 2Mb between US and Mexico was $37,000 a month. Now, you get 100GB for $10,000 a month. So, for one-third of the cost, you get 5,000 times the capacity.

What trends do you foresee in the future for subsea cables and global connectivity as a whole?

The new capacity all coming online is going to stimulate innovation like we haven’t seen before. Whenever you allow engineers the ability to collaborate with unlimited internet capacity, you allow for innovation.

You see new things come to the marketplace because an engineer’s capacity is limitless. You’re going to see applications, some which may be invented in United States and used in other parts of world. You can test or try things not in the geographical location you are in.

How will these benefits affect the average consumer and/or business?

Our society continues to move towards more efficient ways of doing things we’ve always done. I think mobile apps and artificial intelligence are going to be the two things we’re going to see come together.

Mobile apps collect information about human behaviour continuously. They allow us to mine data and create predictable outcomes in many areas in the future.

How is the internet of things (IoT) changing connectivity demands?

IoT devices are humans that don’t sleep. They constantly need info; they are constantly learning and constantly delivering. The dynamic of IoT makes the internet have to triple the bandwidth requirements to support it. Humans are offline at least several hours a day to sleep. IoT devices are never offline.

They are cameras, thermostats, monitoring devices that are constantly interacting. We used to see peak internet demand times after school or work, for example. It’s not the case any more – now, everything is in use constantly. These machines never have to work, eat or sleep.

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NJFX’s CEO Gil Santaliz to Speak on a Keynote Panel at Submarine Networks World Europe Conference

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NJFX’s CEO Gil Santaliz to Speak on a Keynote Panel at Submarine Networks World Europe Conference

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February 6, 2018

WALL, NJ – 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, announces its CEO, Gil Santaliz will be a keynote speaker at the Submarine Networks World Europe 2018 conference to be held in London, UK February 20 – 21, 2018. Santaliz with join other industry experts on the keynote panel entitled ‘The Evolution of the Subsea Industry.’ The panel will discuss the changing subsea cable business models, demand drivers, and how new technologies such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and cloud are changing the industry.

As North America’s preeminent international hub for subsea communications, NJFX serves as the interconnection for many international carriers with multiple predictable, private backhaul and U.S. termination options. An industry visionary, Santaliz is leading the paradigm shift in locating a Tier 3 colocation facility at the point where the cable systems make landfall.

“We are seeing the next generation of subsea deployments since the year 2000, which will support the next 20 years,” comments Gil Santaliz, CEO for 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. I look forward to speaking at Submarine Networks World Europe conference and discussing the changing dynamics and innovations that are spurred by this growth. 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.”

To schedule a meeting with the NJFX team, please contact [email protected].

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Cross River Fiber completes Latency-Sensitive Route to NJFX & Becomes New International Gateway to NYC Financials

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Cross River Fiber completes Latency-Sensitive Route to NJFX & Becomes New International Gateway to NYC Financials

January 22, 2018

Morristown and Wall Township, NJ – Cross River Fiber, a New Jersey-based, boutique network infrastructure and telecommunications solutions provider, announces the completion of its fiber network to the NJFX Tier 3 colocation campus in Wall Township, NJ. The highly-anticipated fiber route provides both enterprises, as well as the international community, with a robust interconnection option between the NJFX campus and key financial exchanges and carrier hotels in NY and NJ.

Offering high-capacity, latency-sensitive dark and lit services, Cross River Fiber designs, constructs and maintains its own independent network and distinguishes itself from other providers by custom-building its network to client specifications. NJFX operates the only carrier neutral Tier 3 cable landing and colocation campus and through its Subsea Exchange platform, carriers, service providers and content companies have direct access to a vital marketplace. The completed fiber route deploys all new optical glass, as well as a path that is diverse from other legacy infrastructure options, which equates to an extremely reliable network for NJFX customers.

“We are excited to enable the global business community through our high-capacity, latency-sensitive and diverse network,” says Vincenzo Clemente, CEO of Cross River Fiber. “By providing purpose-built transport options between the NJFX campus and these important exchange points, we are enabling any enterprise who conducts critical business transactions domestically and abroad, effectively closing the loop between subsea transport and the NY-based interconnections that drive business.”

“Cross River Fiber provides a key gateway to New York metro financial hubs, and we welcome them to our new Subsea Exchange ecosystem,” states Gil Santaliz, CEO for NJFX. “This marketplace allows subsea operators and US fiber-based providers to interexchange their capacity, ensuring network diversity through transparency. Cross River Fiber shares our commitment to providing highly reliable infrastructure, which is paramount to keeping global networks and financials operating 24x7x365.”

For more information about Cross River Fiber, please visit www.crossriverfiber.com.

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About Cross River Fiber
Founded in 2011, Cross River Fiber provides custom, scalable, and secure high-speed fiber network solutions for carriers, wireless mobility providers and enterprise businesses. Our purpose-built fiber network extends into key data centers, carrier hotels, enterprise buildings, wireless access points, and financial exchanges within New Jersey and New York. Providing dark and lit transport solutions, Cross River Fiber connects businesses to a digital world. Cross River Fiber is a Delaware LLC owned by its employees, business partners and Ridgemont Equity Partners. To learn more about Cross River Fiber, visit www.crossriverfiber.com. To learn more about Ridgemont Equity Partners, visit www.ridgemontep.com.

For Cross River Fiber Media Inquiries, please contact:
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(908) 409-6981

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NJFX’s CEO Gil Santaliz to Speak at Metro Connect 2018

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NJFX’s CEO Gil Santaliz to Speak at Metro Connect 2018

January 16, 2018

WALL, NJ – January 16, 2018 – 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, announces its CEO, Gil Santaliz will speak on a panel at Metro Connect 2018.

Metro Connect will be held January 29 – 31, 2018 in Miami, Florida and features panels and strategic discussions including the industry’s most influential businesses, and the who’s who of the metro market. Santaliz’ panel entitled, ‘Where Subsea Meets Metro: Bridging Land and Sea,’ will focus on the changing dynamics of subsea cable landings and the affect on data traffic patterns, new business models, and considerations for submarine cable owners in relation to terrestrial connectivity when building new routes.

In addition, Santaliz will also share publically with executives of North American carriers how the NJFX carrier-neutral cable landing station campus will support the recently announced Aqua Comms investment of the HAVFRUE subsea cable connecting the United States (New Jersey) with Northern Europe. HAVFRUE is the first new undersea cable traversing the North Atlantic to connect mainland Northern Europe to the US in nearly two decades. Network services will be delivered to and from NJFX’s high reliability, carrier-neutral interconnection point in Wall, New Jersey.

“I look forward to the discussion at Metro Connect as the industry recognizes that global communications are changing at a very fast pace,” comments Gil Santaliz, CEO for NJFX. “The role of cable landing stations, where subsea cables meet terrestrial routes, is ever important. NJFX’s unequaled Tier 3 colocation center is a place where we invite North American metro providers to meet subsea cable systems and present their unique routes across North America and beyond. Our campus is extremely reliable, secure and an optimal location as it serves as the physical first and last stop in the U.S.”

NJFX’s Marketplace offers partners and clients a viable, secure way to connect to subsea networks across Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Africa. That connectivity is achieved via secure Network to Network Interfaces (NNI) with major transatlantic cables, the NJFX Market PoP (Point of Presence) and a rich carrier ecosystem, all of which combined now boast interconnection to over one million route miles, both subsea and terrestrial, and more than one million square feet of global data center space across over 180 countries.

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Aqua Comms Continues Investment in Subsea Cables and Announces North Atlantic Bridge

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Aqua Comms Continues Investment in Subsea Cables and Announces North Atlantic Bridge

January 15, 2018

DUBLIN – Aqua Comms DAC (“Aqua Comms”), the operator of Ireland’s first dedicated subsea fibre-optic network interconnecting New York, Dublin and London, announces today its plans for continued investment in submarine cable infrastructure having joined the HAVFRUE consortium which will own and operate a new subsea cable system connecting New Jersey, U.S.A., to Ireland, and Denmark, with connectivity options to Norway.

The HAVFRUE subsea cable is the first new undersea cable traversing the North Atlantic to connect mainland Northern Europe to the U.S. in nearly two decades. Aqua Comms is the appointed system operator and landing party in the U.S., Ireland, and Denmark. TE SubCom has been selected as supplier for the system on which route survey operations have begun. The projected Ready-for-Service (RFS) date for the HAVFRUE subsea cable is Q4 2019.

Aqua Comms will market and sell capacity services and raw spectrum on its portion of the HAVFRUE cable system under the brand name America Europe Connect-2 (AEC-2) as complementary to its existing transatlantic cable, America Europe Connect-1 (AEC-1), running between New York and Killala in County Mayo, Ireland. Aqua Comms is also concluding a new cable route to Denmark through the UK, developing CeltixConnect-2, which connects Dublin to Manchester, as well as the North Sea Connect cable that will link Stellium’s data centre in Newcastle, England, to Esbjerg, Denmark.

Combining these new subsea cable developments, the build of the HAVFRUE / AEC-2 cable system, together with existing systems owned and operated by Aqua Comms, will create a resilient, ring-based infrastructure between the East Coast of the U.S., Ireland, and Northern Europe, connecting the hubs of the pan-Atlantic hyperscale data centre industry in North America, Ireland, and Scandinavia.

“Invest in Denmark is proud to welcome Aqua Comms and the other consortium companies into the country with this fantastic addition to our internet infrastructure,” comments Steen Hommel, Director, Invest in Denmark. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs couldn’t be happier about this investment. Landing a brand new, top-of-the-line fibre cable on the west coast of Jutland will further cement Denmark’s connectivity to North America.”

The HAVFRUE / AEC-2 infrastructure network services will be delivered to and from modern, high-reliability, carrier-neutral interconnection points at NJFX, in Wall, New Jersey, and 1025Connect in Long Island, New York, with a resilient network connection in between, offering a Manhattan bypass route increasing diversity and resiliency in the region. In Europe, the services will be offered from all landing stations and carrier-neutral, metro area Points of Presence (PoPs) in Dublin, London, Amsterdam, and Esbjerg, where the system will more than double fibre connectivity to Denmark, increasing the diversity and reliability of the Internet to the region.

“Aqua Comms is delighted to be investing as a part of the consortium for the HAVFRUE cable system connecting the U.S., Ireland, and Denmark,” states Nigel Bayliff, Chief Executive Officer, Aqua Comms. “The demand for hyperscale capacity and connectivity linking North America with Northern Europe cannot be overestimated, and the combination of AEC-1 / AEC-2 subsea cable systems, facilitated by the construction of HAVFRUE will deliver reliability and resilience at an auspicious time, especially in view of the meteoric rise of the digital economy taking place in Scandinavia.”

The Aqua Comms team is attending PTC’18, taking place January 21-24, in Honolulu, Hawaii, Metro Connect, January 29-31, in Miami, Florida, and Submarine Networks Europe, February 20-21, in London. Aqua Comms invites companies to meet with its representatives at these events so that it can assist organizations with their long-term connectivity needs across the Atlantic Ocean.

To learn more about Aqua Comms, visit www.aquacomms.com.

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About Aqua Comms DAC
Aqua Comms DAC is an Irish Carriers’ Carrier specialising in building and operating submarine cable systems and supplying fibre pairs, spectrum and capacity networking solutions to the global media, content and carrier markets. It is the owner/operator of America Europe Connect-1 (AEC-1) and CeltixConnect-1 and continues to build on its vision of efficient submarine infrastructure ownership with membership of the HAVFRUE consortium and development of CeltixConnect-2 and North Sea Connect, bridging the Northern Atlantic between North America and Northern Europe. To learn more about Aqua Comms and its portfolio of subsea cable systems visit www.aquacomms.com

About TE SubCom
TE SubCom (SubCom), a TE Connectivity Ltd. company, is an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology and marine services, and a leading global supplier for today’s undersea communications requirements. As a vertically integrated supplier, SubCom designs, manufactures, deploys, and maintains the industry’s most reliable fiber optic cable systems. Its solutions include long-haul and regional systems, repeaterless networks, capacity upgrades, offshore oil and gas, and scientific research applications. SubCom brings end-to-end network knowledge and global experience to support on-time delivery and the needs of customers worldwide. To date, the company has deployed enough subsea communication cable to circle the Earth 15 times at the equator. For more information, visit
www.SubCom.com.

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Global Communications Innovation: A Look at What’s Ahead

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Global Communications Innovation: A Look at What’s Ahead

July 22, 2022

Subsea cable systems play an integral role in today’s communications, serving as the primary backbone to transport data, video and voice traffic globally. Spanning continent to continent, and across the world’s oceans, subsea cables are the foundation in which content is served up, videos are viewed, phone calls are made, social media is posted and businesses operate. And despite popular perception, more than 95 percent of all U.S. international voice, data, and Internet traffic travels by submarine cable. Submarine cables provide higher quality, more reliable, more secure, and less expensive communications than satellites provide.

The physical point in which subsea cables make landfall is at a Cable Landing Station (CLS). It is at these critical network junctures where the cable is brought from the ocean into a terrestrial hub and then broken out into terrestrial fiber paths to connect with metro and long haul routes. Carriers, content and service providers, as well as enterprises and financials are all clamoring to be closer to the edge, which means – closer to where the cable is physically accessed to avoid unnecessary points of failure.

While subsea cable systems have been around since the 1850’s, the landscape of today’s Cable Landing Stations and their role are rapidly changing. Gil Santaliz, CEO and Founder of NJFX, believes the future of Cable Landing Stations lies within the ecosystem effect where a healthy density of diverse networks is created and attracts other infrastructure development. NJFX, known as Tier 3 by the Subsea, offers a Subsea Exchange ecosystem, which combines the right number of carriers participating in a marketplace to interexchange capacity. This offers the capability of tapping into the network at the Cable Landing Station, which can in turn lower latencies, increase speeds, increase capacity options and remove single points of failure.

”When a campus has resiliency, redundancy and also the capability for tenants to now have a choice of using shared services or not – or remain completely separate in a hardened facility – you’ve got a good combination. It’s a unique ecosystem-type approach,“ says Amy Marks, CEO of XSite Modular, a design-builder of Cable Landing Stations. “There are only so many routes you can go through. But what NJFX is doing in terms of creating diverse routes to and from a protected campus is really the perfect solution and quite innovative.”

A Cable Landing Station that is located at a coastal, terrestrial, secure site with high elevation, reliable power and direct accessibility to multiple backhaul providers is crucial, and exactly what NJFX offers. Santaliz believes this combination of ingredients will be hard to achieve in the future and why NJFX is uniquely positioned. NJFX is the result of the innovation of the world’s first colocation campus that strategically intersects a carrier-neutral subsea cable landing station meet-me room with a Tier 3, carrier-neutral data center. Its facility is a 64,800-square foot purpose-built data center, which offers direct access to multiple independent subsea cable systems that interconnect North America, Europe, and South America.

There is a definite need for networks to interconnect, and the benefits of the Tier 3 CLS campus infrastructure include having multiple operationally independent builds, each with two sets of independent bores to the ocean that are miles apart, and with two independent buildings. Additional benefits include:

Tier 3 concurrently maintainable systems
Location proven to withstand natural disasters at 65 feet above sea level
Multiple Points of Points entry
Eight independent fiber based providers
Multiple independent meet-me rooms supported by audited Department of Homeland Security standards

All of this is enclosed in a fenced campus which has independent access roads, further providing a secure solution.

Bypassing the typical telecom route through NYC metro, NJFX offers a smart way for organizations to plan their network architectures with resiliency. In addition, NJFX’s close proximity to a power substation further ensures high reliability. “Cable Landing Stations and cable operators need extremely reliable power, as evidenced by the issues from some of the 2017 hurricanes, which caused outages lasting for weeks,” comments Santaliz. “Data centers and carrier hotels are not meant to run on generators for that long. In times of disaster, power utilities have to be turned back on as fast as possible.”

Crosslake Fibre is using a high fiber count submarine cable from NJFX to reach an independent Cable Landing Station on Long Island bypassing NYC, which further increases network diversity and resilience. “The power of being able to cost-effectively shift traffic across different TransAtlantic routes is now possible, because of new connectivity options,” comments Mike Cunningham, CEO of Crosslake Fibre. “These new routes, like the Wall-LI cable, can be segments within larger mesh networks enabling flexibility and necessary resilience around Tier 3 infrastructure.”

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.”

For more information and to learn more about the changing subsea cable landscape, visit www.njfx.net.

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About XSite Modular

XSite Modular is the most well-known and prolific design-builder of cable landing stations. XSite stations are built in a controlled environment with experienced labor forces while their process provides design flexibility to meet clients’ requirements, both technically and aesthetically. Unlike containers, XSite’s modular building process provides large column free spaces with gracious ceiling heights for ease of equipment installation.

XSite’s design-build process dramatically reduces project schedules and provides cost certainty from the earliest concept phases through completion. XSite utilizes an engineered, optimized and productized approach that is easily customized for clients’ specific telecom DC power requirements and space/program needs. This transformational approach allows us to dramatically reduce risk for clients by providing a turnkey landing station to deliver time-sensitive, critical infrastructure to often challenging locations.

XSite has worked on six of the seven continents in both urban and remote locations on systems including ECLink, CFX-1, SEACOM, Matrix, Fibralink, TGN Pacific G6, Seabras-1, Hawaiian Telcom Makaha CLS (SEA-US), Atisa and SPM. XSite also provides PFE shelters, ILA huts, modular data centers and all types of terrestrial telecommunications buildings. For more information on XSite Modular, please visit http://www.xsitemodular.com

About Crosslake Fibre

Crosslake Fibre was established to develop fibre-optic projects throughout North America. Crosslake’s innovative approach to developing next-generation networks will bring new backbone routes to telecommunications carriers and web-centric customers, and last mile broadband to consumers. Crosslake Fibre’s leading project is its Lake Ontario project to construct a new subsea cable from Toronto, Canada to Buffalo, New York. For additional information, see www.crosslakefibre.ca.

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NJFX GENERAL MANAGER, FELIX SEDA, BRINGS NJFX INTO 2018 AND BEYOND

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Felix Seda: Big data and the submarine cable building boom

We live in a digital universe, and data is at the center of it. This universe is growing exponentially – 40 percent each year into the next decade.

July 22, 2022

Not only are more people and businesses doing everything online, but all of those “smart” devices connected to the internet: your phone, your television, your watch, your home security system, and more, are generating or receiving data. By 2020, this digital universe may contain as many digital bits as there are stars in the ACTUAL universe. It is doubling in size every two years, and by 2020 will reach 44 zettabytes, or 44 trillion gigabytes.According to Cisco, global internet traffic reached the zettabyte era last year, with a run rate of 1.2 ZB annually. Annual global IP traffic will reach 3.3 ZB per year by 2021. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) will carry 71 percent of Internet traffic by 2021. And smartphone traffic will exceed PC traffic.

Who needs space?

If you’ve seen the Disney-Pixar movie WALL-E, you may remember the scene of Earth shown from space many decades in the future. It’s depicted as shrouded in thousands and thousands of orbiting satellites. It seems a logical prediction by the Disney-Pixar animators, but the fact is, the vast majority of the massive amount of data that is generated in the next decade, will travel via submarine cable.It might seem that space would better connect the Internet than running really long cables (no thicker than a garden hose) thousands of miles across the ocean floor.

Which, by the way, is a method developed more than a hundred years ago. But as it turns out, it’s not. Submarine cables are simply faster and cheaper than satellites.So as content increases, content giants will drive the demand for submarine cables. Market research firm Telegeography estimates an increase of new cable deployments worth more than $8.1 billion over the next three years.Google, Microsoft and Facebook, once just customers, are now financing cable ventures and joining submarine cable projects. Microsoft and Facebook have partnered for the MAREA transatlantic submarine cable system just deployed. The 4,100-mile (6,600 km) cable system is the first new system built south of the North Atlantic since 1999. Google dipped its toe in the water with the Monet cable, a link between Florida and Brazil. And more are sure to come.It’s clear submarine cables dominate data delivery. But, how does that data get on land, across continents and to your device?

Cable landing stations are that meeting point. Once data has traveled thousands of miles along the submarine cable, it comes ashore at landing station. The landing station is an important component of the submarine cable system.Sites are generally chosen for gently sloping coastline, little marine traffic, accessibility to power source and secure location. But what should also be part of the equation is carrier access closer to the edge, as well as route diversity, which are both addressed by colocation.It’s becoming clear that it can be cost prohibitive for networks and carriers to set up individual data centers. A colocation campus is a much less expensive option that can still provide the interconnection necessary.

Felix Seda is the General Manager for NJFX

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NJFX CEO: “The Revolution Has Started!”

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NJFX CEO: “The Revolution Has Started!”

See the original article at SubCableWorld

December 11, 2017

Editor’s Note: NJFX exploded onto the submarine cable scene a little more than a year ago when it opened the first and still the only colocation campus to sit at a cable landing station in the U.S and offer Tier 3, carrier neutral data center capabilities. In recent months, the company has made a number of major announcements that continue to change the entire ecosystem of submarine cables, colocation and data centers in the New York City area.

I recently had the opportunity to speak with the CEO of NJFX, Gil Santaliz, about the company’s recent announcements: a new submarine cable system connecting NJFX’s colocation campus in Wall, New Jersey, with Long Island, and a new, direct way for carriers to reach the United States via the TGN-1/2 and Seabras-1 cable systems.

SCW:

Tell us something about the recent announcements concerning NJFX.

Santaliz:

The first news that came out recently was that Crosslake Fibre announced that they are running the first wet cable between New Jersey and Long Island. More specifically, that’s between the NJFX colocation campus in Wall, New Jersey, to the 1025Connect facility in Westbury, Long Island, a network-neutral Meet-Me Room for network interconnection and colocation. The 1025Connect facility is home to five subsea cable systems that regenerate there after they land in various parts of Long Island.

Shortly after that, NJFX announced that we now offer connections to strategic subsea cables TGN-1 & 2 and Seabras-1 via secure Network to Network Interfaces (NNI) at NJFX’s New Jersey campus. The NNIs contribute to guarantee increased performance, reliability and route diversity. The breakout capabilities allow carriers, service providers, content companies and enterprises high capacity, while eliminating traditional points of failure when providing US-Europe, US-Brazil, US-Asia connectivity. TGN-1 & 2 cables are submarine cable systems connecting Highbridge, UK, to Wall, New Jersey. Seabras-1 is a 10,500-km fiber optic cable that connects Sao Paulo, Brazil, to the United States. It offers connectivity to financial markets and other Latin America enterprises and bypasses the Atlantic hurricane zone.

These announcements are about adding to the architecture of how global networks really need to work. You have traffic coming in from Europe and Brazil and NJFX is connecting the cable landing stations with Crosslake Fibre’s assets. We’re seeing an incredible investment by US carriers building more capacity, more cable landing stations, offering all the important services to financials and other large customers — more options than they’ve ever seen before. This is because networks are no longer nice to have. They have to work all the time. You need to have diversity. You need to be able to stay operational if one subsea cable goes down or if one US carrier has a problem. There can’t be a hiccup. You have plenty of diversity across the ocean and we have options to bypass Manhattan. Manhattan is no longer a single point of failure in the United States.

SCW:

You’re talking about changing the way we do things. What impact has the Internet had on international services?

Santaliz:

It wasn’t that long ago that the Internet was just email. Now it’s live broadcast. Now it’s applications. Now it’s companies tapping into other entities around the globe to perform services that were previously done next door. It’s about looking for optionality whether it is going to Uruguay or Argentina or having a call center in Panama or tapping into resources in France or Frankfurt or having computing available in Ireland. In order for this global ecosystem to work we have to get to places. We must have a robust architecture. The days of monopolies that restrict how you can invest in architecture are gone. We really believe in net neutrality. NJFX is all about not competing with its customers but finding ways to help them create new architecture and not slow them down or restrict them or put rules on them.

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. Or my Internet of Things is not working. We need to modernize our infrastructure to support how important it is that these things continue to work.

SCW:

There is more to this than just NJFX’s facility. You work with some key players in the fiber marketplace.

Santaliz:

We’ve had some great calls recently with Tata. Tata is a minority partner in NJFX and they support what we are doing. Together we can provide what customers want with a wide variety of options.

You need to have options to work with the best of providers, options like the Crosslake system being put in. That’s what makes sense. If they want to make the investment and work the niche market, allow them to do it. Embrace the change.

Being a customer of NJFX gives you the benefit of working with all of our backhaul providers – Zayo, Windstream, Comcast, Lightower Fiber Networks, Cross River and others – figure out who has the best solution for what the customer needs, put it together and present it as a solution that makes sense and all of a sudden it’s much better than “here’s the best that I have on my assets only.” If I have a carrier-neutral partner next door, we’re pulling in all those individual entities to create the best solution.

We’ve been at this for two years working with our community and everyone’s bought into the concept of bypassing New York City. Picking a place where subsea networks exist, collaborating together, and finding ways to connect. Find out what your customer is trying to accomplish and then support it. We’ve got a great community that’s only going to grow from here.

On the subsea side, we have connections to TGN-1, TGN-2 and Seabras-1 that we have several members on. Telecom Italia Sparkle owns half of Seabras-1 and they come into our facility. They’re presenting their services using Seabras-1 all throughout Latin America, as well as now having an option on Crosslake Fibre to jump across to Long Island and have their capacity connect to subsea cables there that provide ongoing connectivity to Europe and the Middle East. We also have Aqua Comms that comes into NJFX with Epsilon as their retail arm for partnership. Epsilon resells to enterprise customers, while Aqua Comms focuses on being a carriers’ carrier only. And they have an incredible system, AEConnect, going from the US out to Ireland and from there to London and Marseilles. So we have access to four subsea cable systems in our building, but the number of players is a multiple of that because each cable has to start with several main operators and then goes out to hundreds of customers.

Telecom Italia has made a decision to drop capacity into NJFX where it can now compete openly with low-latency applications. We have a monopole that we are putting up on the building because we happen to sit in New Jersey and we have all of the financial exchanges that trade globally. Telecom Italia is now positioned to work with our US backhaul providers to offer low-latency options down to Brazil and the rest of Latin America. We are happy and proud to be part of that as we are a carrier-neutral spot. Telecom Italia will still maintain space in the Tata cable landing station, but they are now deploying their interconnections in our facility.

The revolution has started! Everyone has bought into the concept that NYC is something that you don’t need to go through. It’s nice to visit but you don’t have to have US and all that international traffic pass through two buildings in Lower Manhattan. We sit in the New York City metro area that has a population of 65 million people and is very important to the United States. We can best serve that huge, dense population by adding diversity to the network. You don’t have to take all of your important assets and drop them in the middle of those 65 million people. Our thought in architecture is stop, take a deep breath, service that marketplace from various key points, triangulate it so that if one or two PoPs are impacted you’re not going to lose services to 65 million people, much less the trading that sits behind that. So it’s all about network architecture.

SCW:

What does 2018 have in store for NJFX?

Santaliz:

By the middle of 2018, I expect that we will be leasing out blocks and lots for data centers, new cable landing stations, business continuity sites – things that are assets to subsea networks. I want to give Ashburn a run for its money. This is a way that we can provide some diversity to Ashburn because we are going to have all of the connectivity they have plus more. We’re going to have space now for caching applications that serve the region, as well as the rest of the US, and offering diversity. In terms of Ashburn, we’re not going to compete with them on electricity and data center space – they have an incredible infrastructure in Ashburn. What we will do is offer diversity. We can say, “If Ashburn has a problem, we don’t have a problem.” Our campus is the answer to diversity for Ashburn. We have four subsea systems coming to our facility, all directly bypassing New York, and the future looks bright so stay tuned!

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NJFX’s Rapid Growth and 2018 Expansion Spur Key Additions to Core Team

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NJFX's Rapid Growth and 2018 Expansion Spur Key Additions to Core Team

November 21, 2017

WALL, NJ – November 21, 2017 – 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, announces the hire of two industry professionals to address its growing ecosystem and rapid expansion.

The robust NJFX ecosystem includes direct access to:

Ten telecommunications carriers
Four subsea cable systems
Over one million route miles21
More than one million square feet of global data center space across 240 countries

NJFX is also planning to expand its data center campus to a total of 58 acres in 2018.

Cliff Gasior joins NJFX as Director of Engineering and is responsible for managing operational quality to ensure maximum uptime for clients. Mr. Gasior brings vast experience as a mechanical systems engineer and project manager for large mission critical facilities such as Google, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank. As a professional engineer (PE) and Commissioning Process Management Professional (CPMP), Mr. Gasior will ensure all engineering projects and processes are in compliance with essential industry standards and best practices.

In addition, NJFX welcomes Amanda Norman, who will serve as Ecosystem Development Manager for NJFX. Ms. Norman is responsible for helping partners and customers within the NJFX network collaborate and take advantage of all that the ecosystem offers. Amanda will also oversee all site visits and leverage her strong background in sales, management, sales operations, consulting and customer service to further ensure success for NJFX clients.

“We know its imperative to have the best team in place to address our rapid growth and to support our expansion throughout 2018,” states Gil Santaliz, NJFX Founder and Chief Executive Officer. “We are excited to bring Cliff and Amanda on board, as both are highly dedicated to serving our clients. We know our strong customer focus will be key to further our success and our clients’ success in the years to come.”

This news comes on the heels of NJFX announcing its breakout capabilities, which offer new direct ways for global carriers, content providers and enterprises to reach the US, while eliminating traditional points of failure when providing US-Europe, US-Brazil, US-Asia connectivity.

To learn more about NJFX’s ecosystem and how to increase reliability, backhaul and disaster recovery options, please contact [email protected].

About NJFX
NJFX operates “Tier 3 by the Subsea,” the world’s first colocation campus that strategically intersects a carrier neutral subsea cable landing station meet-me room with a Tier 3, carrier neutral data center. The 64,800-square foot purpose-built data center offers direct access to multiple independent subsea cable systems that interconnect North America, Europe, and South America. High and low-density colocation solutions are available with 24/7 support as well as unique US fiber back-haul solutions that avoid traditional legacy network points of failure. NJFX’s offerings provide the flexibility, reliability and security that global carriers, content providers, enterprise and government entities require to drive revenue, reduce expenses and improve service quality.

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