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The global provider of a New World of Communications is deploying a compute environment within NJFX’s new “Tier 3 by the Subsea” data center, which intersects its own cable landing station

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WALL, NJ – September 15, 2016 – New Jersey Fiber Exchange (NJFX), the first Tier 3 carrier-neutral colocation campus that intersects where subsea cables from the United States, Europe, South America and the Caribbean meet, is proud to welcome Tata Communications as the first colocation customer and diamond sponsor for its Tier 3 by the Subsea grand opening launch event, taking place on September 21, 2016. NJFX’s brand new carrier-neutral, highly secure enterprise-class facility already interconnects with Tata Communication’s landing station via private backhaul.

NJFX colocation campus sits adjacent to Tata Communications’ Cable Landing Station (CLS) and offers instant connectivity from around the globe. With direct access to Tier 1 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) fiber providers, and other network operators, NJFX customers are able to avoid traditional backhaul solutions and design high-capacity, low latency networks directly to and from the cable head.

The grand opening launch event will feature world champion racing driver, Mario Andretti, and will offer attendees the opportunity to tour the new facility and network with industry leaders. As a diamond sponsor, Tata Communications is also hosting its Lewis Hamilton race car virtual reality tour and Formula 1® racing simulation to further drive home the speed customers will benefit from NJFX and Tata Communications partnership. In addition, Chief Operations Officer for Tata Communications, John Hayduk, will be participating in an intimate fireside chat with Mr. Andretti and NJFX Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Gil Santaliz.

“Tata Communications has been indispensable to our ‘Tier 3 by the Subsea’ project,” says Santaliz. “We are proud that Tata Communications not only facilitated our strategy to tether the facility to its subsea landing station, but also found value in the data center for its own initiatives by deploying servers in our mission-critical environment.”

“Adjacencies of having a data center facility with a subsea cable landing station connecting North America, Europe and South America provides tremendous value for customers,” says Hayduk “We believe that enterprises and service providers alike will be eager to adopt products and services with NJFX to gain access to the connectivity ecosystem that resides within our landing station.”

For more information about NJFX and its carrier-neutral “Tier 3 by the Subsea” data center, visit www.NJFX.net.

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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.

The Jersey Shore Meets the Fast and Furious: NJFX Set to Unveil its Data Center Campus

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The Jersey Shore Meets the Fast and Furious: NJFX Set to Unveil its Data Center Campus

November 7, 2016

We may be exaggerating, but only just a little. On September 21, 2016 in Wall Township, NJ, the New Jersey Fiber Exchange (NJFX) will be hosting its Phase II Grand Opening extravaganza.

If you are familiar with New Jersey, then you know Wall Township is at the Jersey Shore. If you are familiar with NJFX, then you know it will be the closest data center and backhaul point for a number of subsea cable systems landing in the U.S. from Europe and South America — and that means FAST.

And the furious part? Well, the companies that have invested money and assets in interconnecting their networks within major hub points in cities like New York City and Philadelphia may very well be furious, because now there’s a faster route and a better way.

The NJFX facility is collocated adjacent to the Tata Communications Cable Landing Station where it has been operating the carrier-neutral Meet-Me Room since September 2015. Operational and with a growing number of carriers enabling network interconnectivity from the facility, the NJFX carrier-neutral data center is now set to launch in September 2016.

In the span of just one year, a number of carriers have specifically built in to NJFX’s Meet-Me Room, including Lightpath, Tata Communications, Windstream, Lightower Fiber Networks and more. In addition to these U.S.-based terrestrial network providers, the new NJFX data center will provide access between three continents: The United States, Europe and South America by way of multiple subsea systems, including TGN-Atlantic; direct access to Europe via the UK; TAT-14, direct access to Europe via Denmark, Germany, France and the UK; Apollo, direct access to Europe via France and the UK; Gemini, direct access to Bermuda; GlobeNet, direct access to South America, including Brazil and Venezuela, with additional end-points available in Bermuda and Florida.

Stateside, the NJFX Data Center will provide its customers with the ability to reach nearly any major city and thus end-point across the United States. By leveraging a number of network providers, customers can reach a multitude of end-points, including Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Denver and nearly any major hub in between.

How do we know this facility will deliver fast connectivity? Customers gain full control over their network routes, thus gaining the opportunity to design a custom network solution that is capable of bypassing key congested hubs such as New York City to get the most direct path.

“The NJFX carrier-neutral data center provides customers a high level of connectivity to leading service providers that already maintain an established presence in our Meet-Me Room,” says Gil Santaliz, Founder and Managing Member of NJFX. “Leveraging a Network-to-Network Interconnection (NNI), NJFX data center customers also gain direct access to industry-leading wavelength, Ethernet, MPLS, DIA and cloud services, giving them options at the cable-head that they previously didn’t have.”

Standard subsea connectivity options typically rely on backhaul network capacity that transports the data traffic to a data center traditionally located in key buildings such as 60 Hudson Street, 111 Eighth Avenue, 32 Avenue of the Americas, and others. With more networks carrying larger amounts of data for cloud connectivity, live streaming of movies, video games and simply transferring larger files, these buildings and hubs built around them are at risk of running out of space and power — the two key tenets, besides networks, of course, required by companies who rely on data center and colocation facilities. NJFX’s facility, a ‘Tier-III by the Subsea’ data center, solves this problem.

One fun way to learn more about what NJFX has to offer is to attend the launch celebration on September 21, 2016 at its brand-new facility. Joining attendees will be special guests Mario Andretti, (one of only two racing drivers to win races in Formula One, IndyCar, World SportsCar and NASCAR) as well as Ottis Jerome “O.J.”Anderson, (New York Giants legend and Super Bowl MVP).

In addition, attendees will have the opportunity to experience the adrenaline rush of racing at speeds of 220 MPH in a Formula One race car virtual reality experience and, of course, tour the fast and furious data center facility itself.

So when the Jersey Shore meets the Fast and Furious, we mean it. Come on down and join the NJFX team for a fun-filled and exhilarating experience while you learn about this grand, new alternative data center option now available. To learn more about the event, visit njfx.net/rsvp/launch2016. For more information about NJFX, go towww.njfx.net. In the meantime, we hope to see you there on September 21!

Data Center Connectivity: Dare to Bypass New York?

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Data Center Connectivity: Dare to Bypass New York?

September 6, 2016

If you want traffic from your data center to reach Europe, you have to get it to one of the submarine cable landing stations along North America’s east coast. There is a couple in Canada, but most of them are in the US, with the highest concentrations in the New York metro and at the southern tip of Florida. Most submarine cable routes to Europe land in the New York metro, while Florida is the primary gateway to Central and South Americas.

Getting your traffic to one of the landing stations in New York or New Jersey isn’t simple. If you’re a bank, for example, it isn’t just a matter of signing a contract with one of the cable operators and getting your technicians to light up a fiber line between your data center and a landing station. You have to go through middlemen, companies that will backhaul your traffic to an access point somewhere in a colocation data center – which can be close to or far from shore – and then to the landing station itself.

If your data center is in Ashburn, Chicago, or Denver, and you want to move traffic to Europe or South America via a landing station in New Jersey, you would normally have to backhaul it first to one of the big carrier hotels in Manhattan – Google-owned 111 8th Avenue, Digital Realty’s 60 Hudson Street, or 32 Avenue of the Americas (which was actually at one time the main AT&T building for transatlantic connectivity) – from where telcos who are members of consortia that operate submarine cables would take it to the New Jersey landing station.

But the company behind a new data center launched recently on the New Jersey coast says your traffic no longer has to take that detour. New Jersey Fiber Exchange has built what its founder, Gil Santaliz, describes as a data center campus around a landing station in Manasquan, a borough in the Garden State’s Monmouth County, where four submarine cables land now and one more is expected to come online next year.

Legacy Carrier Hotels No Longer Only Option

The landing station is owned by Tata Communications, and the NJFX data center provides direct connectivity to submarine cables that land there. It is unique in that it is adjacent to the landing-station facility, which is closed to everyone other than the cable operators, as all cable landing stations usually are, according to Santaliz.

The NJFX founder has been deeply involved in the region’s connectivity market for years. He was a founder of 4Connections, a provider of dark fiber in New Jersey acquired by Cablevision subsidiary Optimum Lightpath in 2008. Prior to that he was general manager for a joint venture between GPU Telecom and Telergy, which leased fiber in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Removing a Choke Point

Although there are carrier hotels in New Jersey — the biggest one being at 165 Halsey Street in Newark, where you can access at least one of the submarine cables that land in Manasquan, called Apollo — according to Santaliz, the bulk of transatlantic traffic travels through the legacy network hubs in New York City.

This model, he says, was devised before September 11 and before Hurricane Sandy. Both disasters took out significant portions of telecommunications infrastructure in Manhattan, and having an alternative route makes New York less of a choke point.

When he was running 4Connections, all banks he talked to wanted direct access to landing stations, but operators wouldn’t let them, he recalls. And that demand is still there today. “They don’t want to depend on backhaul that’s unpredictable.”

The new cable that’s due to go live next year, called Seabras-1, will connect New Jersey to Praia Grande, Brazil. Banking is one sector “that’s extremely interested in that Brazilian piece, as well as European direct access,” Santaliz says.

Content providers are also interested and of course carriers. These are the three big verticals NJFX is catering to. When the company launched a meet-me room at the site, it inherited 11 carriers that were already connecting to the landing station. Three more carriers came on board since.

NJFX charges customers for data center space and for connections to the meet-me room: a 24-count cable to the meet-me room costs $1,500 per month. It does not, however, charge for interconnects that link customers inside the facility to each other.

Previously, the meet-me room had been limited to carriers only, but now that the official data center launch date is near (September 21), it is open to enterprises, such as banks and content providers. Carriers that are already there are making new deals every day, Santaliz says. “The amount of traffic in that facility is staggering.”

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Capacity Magazine: NJFX launches second phase of Tier 3 by the Subsea with 65k sqft data centre

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Capacity Magazine: NJFX launches second phase of Tier 3 by the Subsea with 65k sqft data centre

August 22, 2016

The New Jersey Fiber Exchange has announced the Phase II opening of its Tier 3 by the Subsea carrier-neutral colocation facility.

The launch marks the expansion of the US interconnection and colocation firm’s campus with the addition of a new 64,800-square foot colocation facility, which began last September.

The new data centre features mission critical infrastructure design with the capacity for over 1,000 cabinets for carrier neutral colocation. It also provides greater capacity to address customers’ high-density power needs up to 20kW/cabinet. It has an annual design PUE of 1.35 and a “state-of-the-art” rooftop cooling system.

“NJFX is doing something that no company has ever done before,” states Gil Santaliz, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of NJFX.

“The unique location of our campus enables unprecedented access to a number of the most sought after subsea and terrestrial assets transporting traffic nationally, as well as internationally. NJFX ensures our customers receive the flexible, reliable and secure connectivity they require to support their growing business needs.”

NFJX has already announced Tata Communications as one of its first colocation customers, and as the Diamond sponsor for the Tier 3 opening event, which was held on 21 September. The NFJX is adjacent to Tata’s cable landing station in the area.

The New Jersey launch event featured world champion racing driver Mario Andretti, with Tata COO John Hayduk in attendance. It was also sponsored by Windstream, continuing its partnership with NJFX.

“Adjacencies of having a data centre facility with a subsea cable landing station connecting North America, Europe and South America provides tremendous value for customers,” says Hayduk. “We believe that enterprises and service providers alike will be eager to adopt products and services with NJFX to gain access to the connectivity ecosystem that resides within our landing station.”

Other network service providers listed on the NJFX website include Zayo Holdings, Sunesys, Sparkle, Lightower Fiber Networks, Lightpath, Cross River Fiber, and 1025Connect LLC.

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Google Just Plugged Into Japan With Its Own Undersea Cable

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Google Just Plugged Into Japan With Its Own Undersea Cable

July 1, 2016

This week, a new undersea fiber-optic cable funded by Google and a consortium of Asian telecommunications companies went online. Dubbed Faster, the cable stretches about 5,600 miles from Oregon to two landing points in Japan. It’s the fastest, highest capacity trans-Pacific undersea cable ever built. It can theoretically deliver as much as 60 terabits per second of bandwidth—more than half the total bandwidth available between the U.S West Coast and Asia at the end of 2015, according to telecommunications consulting firm Telegeography.

Google is reserving 10 terabits of that capacity to speed up communications between its own computer data centers. The timing is fortuitous: Google announced in March that it will offer its cloud computing services from Tokyo later this year. It will also help make the Internet more resilient in earthquake prone parts of Asia. “The cable utilizes Japanese landing facilities strategically located outside of tsunami zones to help prevent network outages when the region is facing the greatest need,” reads a Google blog post trumpeting the cable’s grand opening.

Google and its partners—including China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, KDDI, and Singtel—first announced the project in 2014, and Japanese technology giant NEC actually laid the cable down.

NJFX Names New Vice President of Sales and Customer Relations

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NJFX Names New Vice President of Sales and Customer Relations

Doug Corbett Appointed to Develop Strategic Domestic and International Subsea Partnerships for Interconnection at NJFX’s Tier 3 Carrier-Neutral Collocation Facility

JUNE 13, 2016

WALL, NJ – New Jersey Fiber Exchange (NJFX), the first Tier 3 carrier-neutral colocation facility that intersects where subsea cables from the United States, South America, Europe and the Caribbean meet, announces today the appointment of Doug Corbett to the position of Vice President of Sales and Customer Relations. A telecommunications industry veteran with over 25 years of sales leadership experience, Mr. Corbett has driven revenue growth and profitability, and contributed his expertise to the go-to-market strategies of a number of high-profile telecom and technology companies. As Vice President of Sales and Customer Relations, he is responsible for developing strategic domestic and international subsea partnerships for interconnection within NJFX’s Tier 3 carrier-neutral collocation facility.

Prior to joining NJFX, Mr. Corbett was Vice President of Allied Fiber, where he expanded the company’s dark fiber and collocation business, and developed sales campaigns across various industry segments in the U.S. and internationally. Previously, he held senior sales executive positions at Tellabs, Dell, Force 10 Networks and Turin Networks. While Executive Account Manager at Tellabs, a provider of optical network solutions, and Global Sales Director at Turin, a carrier Ethernet solutions provider for wireline and wireless network operators, Mr. Corbett developed strategic multinational partnerships that resulted in the deployment of over $200 million of optical and packet transmission equipment in total. He began his telecommunications career in networks sales at Rochester Telephone. Mr. Corbett earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

“We are delighted to welcome a senior executive of Doug Corbett’s caliber and results-oriented approach,” comments Gil Santaliz, CEO of NJFX. “He is well-known in the industry and is a great addition to the team. This is an exciting time for NJFX, and Doug’s breadth of sales leadership experience on both domestic and international stages makes him an invaluable asset to forming new subsea interconnection partnerships.”

“As NJFX embarks on a historic journey to create a new edge that offers customers greater control of their networks and the freedom to decide how they interconnect U.S. domestic networks with international subsea systems, I am excited to play a pivotal role in contributing my experience to the company’s objectives,” states Doug Corbett. “As the first Tier 3 carrier-neutral colocation facility that intersects where subsea cables from the U.S., South America, Europe and the Caribbean meet, NJFX’s positioning is nothing short of visionary, and to become a member of this game-changing organization is an exhilarating proposition.”

For more information about NJFX and its carrier-neutral “Tier 3 by the Subsea” data center, visit www.NJFX.net.

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Lightpath Establishes Direct International Connection to Expansive New York Metro Area Fiber Network Via NJFX

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Lightpath Establishes Direct International Connection to Expansive New York Metro Area Fiber Network Via NJFX

May 13, 2016

Lightpath® has announced that it has established direct international access to its expansive New York metro area fiber network. Lightpath is a market leader in Ethernet-based communication solutions for New York metropolitan area businesses and now through a connection to New Jersey Fiber Exchange’s neutral cable landing station meet-me room in Wall, New Jersey, customers can now leverage its ultra-high bandwidth services for connectivity to key international destinations. New Jersey Fiber Exchange (NJFX) is highly regarded and is the first Tier 3 carrier-neutral colocation facility that intersects where subsea cables from the United States, South America, Europe and the Caribbean meet.

Serving enterprises in the world’s largest business market, Lightpath customers are continually seeking the fastest ultra-high speed connectivity to key international hotspots, and the new connection established by Lightpath meets these demands by bypassing carrier hotels and legacy backhaul solutions.

“As our customers’ businesses expand globally, they want to continue to use the Lightpath service that they know and trust,” said Dave Pistacchio, president, Lightpath. “Following our connection to the NJFX facility, we’re able to expand the universe of customers we can serve, helping them develop secure, reliable and high-speed connectivity to key media and financial destinations throughout the world.”

With over 7,000 lit locations throughout the New York Metro area, Lightpath serves sectors with the most stringent data delivery requirements, necessitating direct international access for companies that want to maintain the highest levels of connectivity in and out of the region.

“Lightpath’s dominance in the region, close relationship with businesses and ubiquitous network enhance the value we’re able to offer to businesses throughout the globe that need the most direct local access to this market,” said Gil Santaliz, CEO of NJFX. “We look forward to enabling reliable, diverse connectivity options for Lightpath customers in a highly-secure, fortified facility that is as close to the edge as a network operator can get.”

The New Jersey Fiber Exchange 64,800-square-foot facility will go live in September 2016, at which time Lightpath’s services will be available via the new connection. Click here to learn more about Lightpath.

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Lightpath, a unit of Cablevision Systems focused on Ethernet-based business services, said it has established direct international access to its New York metro area fiber network.

Through a connection to New Jersey Fiber Exchange’s neutral cable landing station meet-me room in Wall, N.J., Lightpath’s enterprise customers can now tap into high bandwidth services for connectivity to key international destinations, the company said.

The New Jersey Fiber Exchange 64,800-square-foot facility is set to go live in September 2016, at which time Lightpath’s services will be available via the new connection.

As its customers increasingly seek the fast connectivity to key international hotspots, Lightpath said the new connection meets this need by bypassing carrier hotels and legacy backhaul solutions.

“As our customers’ businesses expand globally, they want to continue to use the Lightpath service that they know and trust,” Dave Pistacchio, president of Lightpath, said in a statement. . “Following our connection to the NJFX facility, we’re able to expand the universe of customers we can serve, helping them develop secure, reliable and high-speed connectivity to key media and financial destinations throughout the world.”

Lightpath’s fiber network in the NY metro covers more than 7,000 lit locations in the region. Lightpath parent Cablevision is in the process of being acquired by Altice.

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Metro Bytes: Wilcon, Cleareon, Lightpath, Neutral Path

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Metro Bytes: Wilcon, Cleareon, Lightpath, Neutral Path

May 13, 2016

Yesterday’s roundup focused on the international, today’s on the regional and metro:

In Southern California, Wilcon is doubling down with Ciena’s gear to upgrade and expand its metro Ethernet capabilities. LightRiver is helping them design and deploy Ciena’s programmable 8700 Packetwave platform. Wilcon first lit its dark fiber some 18 months ago, also with the help of LightRiver and Ciena of course.

Up in the Big Apple, the recently launched Cleareon Fiber Networks is adding another key node to its network. They have expanded their list of PoPs to include one in Digital Realty’s 111 8th Avenue location. Cleareon launched in February with plans to extend into all the key hubs in the city, so we’ll be hearing similar announcements over the next few months.

Lightpath has been busy across the river in New Jersey and down along the coast. They haveextended their network down to the New Jersey Fiber Exchange, the new data center down in Wall that will be opening this September. That’s alongside the Tata cable landing station where several existing and future cables stretch off to both Europe and South America.

And out in the Midwest, Neutral Path Communications has polished off a new fiber route. They have built a high count, low loss fiber path from Minneapolis’s 511 Building to the company’s data center in Mankato, 80 miles to the southwest. Neutral Path has a 1,300 mile fiber backbone stretching from Minneapolis through down to Omaha and over to Denver.

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Lightpath Establishes Direct International Connection to N.Y. Metro Area Fiber Network

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Lightpath Establishes Direct International Connection to N.Y. Metro Area Fiber Network

May 13, 2016

Lightpath announced it has established direct international access to its New York metro area fiber network. Through a connection to New Jersey Fiber Exchange’s neutral cable landing station meet-me room in Wall, N.J., Lightpath’s reports its enterprise customers can now use its ultra-high bandwidth services for connectivity to key international destinations. New Jersey Fiber Exchange is reportedly the first Tier 3 carrier-neutral co-location facility that intersects where subsea cables from the United States, South America, Europe and the Caribbean meet.

“Following our connection to the NJFX facility, we’re able to expand the universe of customers we can serve, helping them develop secure, reliable and high-speed connectivity to key media and financial destinations throughout the world,” Dave Pistacchio, president at Lightpath, says.

Lightpath’s fiber N.Y. metro area network spans more than 7,000 lit locations throughout the region.

“Lightpath’s dominance in the region, close relationship with businesses and ubiquitous network enhance the value we’re able to offer to businesses throughout the globe that need the most direct local access to this market,” Gil Santaliz, CEO of NJFX, says. “We look forward to enabling reliable, diverse connectivity options for Lightpath customers in a highly-secure, fortified facility that is as close to the edge as a network operator can get.”

The New Jersey Fiber Exchange 64,800-square-foot facility will reportedly go live in September 2016, at which time Lightpath’s services will be available via the new connection.

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