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New Jersey Fiber Exchange to Speak at Capacity Latam 2016

NJFX CEO Gil Santaliz to Appear on Panel to Discuss Enabling Data Localization and Maintaining Customers’ Privacy

March 8, 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 that its CEO, Gil Santaliz, will participate on a panel at Capacity Latam 2016, taking place March 15-16, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Now in its 13th year, Capacity Latam has grown to become the single most important meeting for Latin America’s wholesale telecom industry.

On March 16 at 12:00 PM, Mr. Santaliz, joined by executives from BT Global Services, Equinix and IFX Networks, will participate in the panel discussion, “Enabling Data Localization – Are Data Centers and Cloud Services as Safe as We Like to Think They Are?” The panel will examine customers’ increased awareness of where their data is kept and what companies are doing to ensure that their customers’ privacy is maintained.

“Within this past year, there has been a growing concern across the industry regarding the privacy and security of customers’ data,” states Mr. Santaliz. “It is our responsibility to make the industry aware of now being able to eliminate traditional fiber backhaul from international cable landing stations and avoid unnecessary congested legacy infrastructure with often high cross-connect fees.”

“Content, enterprise and carrier customers can now regroom or simply deliver new incremental growth with private fiber backhaul to any metro from many subsea cables in one U.S. location. Our customers not only benefit from this new model and have the option of locating their critical infrastructure in our secure Tier 3 data center boasting efficient and reliable direct connectivity, but also the peace of mind that their data and personal information is safe, and their privacy secure,” Santaliz adds.

As the premier “Tier 3 by the Subsea” carrier-neutral colocation and Meet-Me Room (MMR) provider in Wall Township, New Jersey, NJFX provides direct interconnection options at the cable headend to service providers, enterprises, carrier-neutral operators, and cable companies. The development of this new edge empowers customers to take control of their networks rather than being forced to rely on traditional backhaul solutions. Through its managed MMR within Tata Communications’ international Cable Landing Station (CLS), NJFX offer tenants highly resilient, low-latency global connectivity to more than 240 countries and territories, as well as 99.7 percent of the world’s GDP by way of one of the largest and most advanced subsea fiber networks.

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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.

Q&A: Gil Santaliz, founder and managing director, NJFX

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Q&A: Gil Santaliz, founder and managing director, NJFX

Capacity speaks to Gil Santaliz, founder and managing director of NJFX, about its key developments within the Caribbean in the past year and how it plans to provide customers with alternative options to connect.

February 19, 2016

What have been NJFX’s key highlights in the Caribbean in the past year?

Over the past year, the subsea cable industry has experienced substantial growth. Witnessing this trend, NJFX recognised an investment opportunity and focussed our energy on transatlantic subsea cable system interconnection within the data center.Throughout 2015, NJFX teamed up with key industry players including Tata Communications and Windstream to provide a full PoP in Wall New Jersey with Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), carrier-grade Ethernet and 100G capacity on unique routes between Ashburn and New Jersey, bypassing congested network paths.

Currently, NJFX interconnects with Europe and Latin America; however this year, we are exploring opportunities throughout the Caribbean. We hope that 2016 will prove to be a year of expansion as we grow to provide enhanced international connectivity in the Caribbean region.

How will NJFX seek to enable operators to have more control of their networks in the coming year?

As we provide unique, open routes, NJFX will generate an opportunity for operators to experience faster, more reliable and more effective means of connecting. By being nimble and taking advantage of new routes, we plan to offer enhanced international access to the places our customers want to go.

How will NJFX aim to stay ahead of its competitors in the market in the coming year?

As many routes between metro markets remain congested, creating bottlenecks, NJFX breaks from the pack and offers customers unique options to connect. We are dedicated to providing strategic, connectivity-rich deployments through interconnection via the NJFX Meet-Me Room (MMR) at the Tata Communications’ Cable Landing Station (CLS) in Wall, New Jersey. Metro markets will only become denser with the deployment of small cells, Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) and metro Wi-Fi in 2016, and NJFX is developing new routes for enhanced connectivity, providing a unique experience for those looking to connect in North America, Latin America, Europe, and soon, the Caribbean.

What do you hope to achieve by attending Capacity Caribbean in 2016?

As we prepare for expansion into the Caribbean, this event provides the necessary platform to further explore opportunities and catch up with other industry professionals on a global level. We hope to provide an important announcement concerning the Caribbean in the very near future, and look forward to the opportunity to share it with the Capacity Caribbean community.

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Founder and Managing Member of New Jersey Fiber Exchange to Speak at Capacity Caribbean

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Founder and Managing Member of New Jersey Fiber Exchange to Speak at Capacity Caribbean

Gil Santaliz of NJFX to Discuss Submarine and Terrestrial Infrastructural Developments in the Caribbean

February 16, 2016

WALL, NJ – February 16, 2016 – 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 that its Founder and Managing Member, Gil Santaliz, will participate on a panel at Capacity Caribbean 2016, taking place on February 17-18, 2016 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Now in its 10th year, Capacity Caribbean continues to attract over 200 people from more than 30 different countries worldwide to discuss new projects and developments in the Caribbean wholesale telecommunications market.On February 17 at 2:15 PM, Mr. Santaliz will partake in a panel discussion titled “Infrastructural Developments – Is the Region One Step Closer to Meeting the Demand of Capacity?” Joined by Hunter Newby, Founder and CEO of Allied Fiber; Erick Contag, COO of GlobeNet; and Filip Van Den Bossche, CEO of Guyacom, the panel will examine the increasing need for capacity in the Caribbean. Through analysis of the current subsea cable projects and upcoming announcements for new developments, the group will discuss the necessary steps being taken to satisfy that demand.

“Within this past year, there has been substantial growth in the subsea cable industry. We have seen a resurgence in the investment of transatlantic subsea cable systems, evidenced by the recent Seaborn Networks and Aqua Comms announcements highlighting route and cable diversity,” states Mr. Santaliz. “This growth has been driven by an increased demand for capacity that the industry has to meet through development and further investment in subsea cable systems.”

As the first “Tier 3 by the Subsea,” carrier-neutral colocation facility located within Tata Communications’ international Cable Landing Station (CLS), NJFX provides direct interconnection options at the cable head-end to service providers, enterprises, carrier-neutral operators, and cable companies. The development of the new edge generates the ability for customers to take control of their networks instead of being forced to rely on traditional backhaul solutions. NJFX offers tenants highly resilient, low-latency global connectivity to more than 240 countries and territories, as well as 99.7% of the world’s GDP by way of one of the largest and most advanced subsea fiber networks.

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The Data Center Dilemma

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The Data Center Dilemma

February 9, 2016

Creating data centers at the edge of the network would seem to play well into the desire of legacy telecom operators to repurpose their traditional Central Offices as newer sites able to support virtualization, cloud services and more. But while there is momentum building behind one approach to doing this — developed by ON.lab — the general trend still has many skeptics, who point to environmental and cost issues involved in the transformation process, as well as the readiness of off-the-shelf hardware to perform in this environment.

“Converting COs to data centers is a topic that is coming up more often,” comments Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Rosalyn Roseboro, “but it’s also not all that clear-cut. There is still a lot of work to do around this.”

The most straightforward approach is the Central Office Re-architected as Data Center (CORD) project developed by ON.Lab through its ONOS Project. Both AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) have signed on to ONOS, the latter citing CORD as the major reason, and AT&T is putting CORD to the test for delivering broadband services beginning in March. In addition, Ciena Corp. (NYSE: CIEN) has stepped up to offer a “hardened” approach to doing this. (See Verizon Looks to ONOS for Faster Transformation, ONOS Leaps over Initial Goals & Rapidly Expands Its Ecosystem, Ciena Offers Hardened ONOS for Next-Gen Central Office Conversions and AT&T to Show Off Next-Gen Central Office.)

There are also clear drivers in the virtualization effort for functions that don’t need to be on the customer premises, but would benefit from closer access than if they were only in the cloud.

Critics of any effort to repurpose COs on a grand scale point to significant challenges, including the need to continue to support regulated voice service and environmental issues such as space, power and cooling as well. These will complicate any effort to do mass conversion of legacy COs, Roseboro notes, and may produce a more scattered effort, with decisions made on a company-by-company or even a location-by-location basis.

The environmental costs, including bringing in AC power and equipping the space for the server racks that data centers require, have some folks questioning how widespread the CO conversion trend might be.

Checked it outGil Santaliz, founder and managing member of New Jersey Fiber Exchange (NJFX) , which is building a carrier-neutral data center in partnership with Tata Communications near its global cable landing site, said last month in a Metro Connect panel that his company looked at redoing COs that were available in the state as data centers but concluded it was much too expensive. (See NJFX Offers Fiber Hookup to Subsea Cables.)

“These are buildings that have been around for a long time, with batteries coming and going, and major load-bearing walls that would need to be taken down,” he commented. “When you factored in the cost of bringing in new power, and the size of the sites, it was lots of capex for a little bit of space.”

New Jersey Fiber Exchange to Speak at Metro Connect USA 2016

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New Jersey Fiber Exchange to Speak at Metro Connect USA 2016

NJFX Founder and Managing Member Gil Santaliz to Participate on Panel Exploring the Evolution of the Modern Data Center

January 25, 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 that its Founder and Managing Member, Gil Santaliz, will participate on a panel at Metro Connect USA 2016, taking place January 26-27, 2016 at the Eden Roc Resort in Miami Beach, Florida. Bringing together attendees from some of the largest metro players in the nation, Metro Connect USA is the meeting point of choice for critical discussion regarding the future of U.S. communications and development of fiber infrastructure.

On Wednesday, January 27 at 11:45 AM, Mr. Santaliz will join executives from EdgeConneX®, Global Capacity and Schneider Electric to participle on an hour-long panel discussion titled “Data Center Investment: The Next Step in Portfolio Expansion?” Moderated by Dave Burns of QTS Data Centers, this panel will explore value-added services within mission-critical facilities, the impact of data centers on the current fiber ecosystem, the role of fiber providers in the data center space, and more.

As the premier “Tier 3 by the Subsea,” carrier-neutral colocation and Meet-Me Room (MMR) provider in Wall Township, New Jersey, NJFX provides direct interconnection options at the cable head-end to service providers, enterprises, carrier-neutral operators, and cable companies. Through its managed MMR within Tata Communications’ international Cable Landing Station (CLS), NJFX offer tenants highly resilient, low-latency global connectivity to more than 240 countries and territories, as well as 99.7% of the world’s GDP by way of one of the largest and most advanced subsea fiber networks.

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Windstream Extends 100G Network from Ashburn, VA to NJFX

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Windstream Extends 100G Network from Ashburn, VA to NJFX

January 22, 2016

Leading data center and colocation solutions provider New Jersey Fiber Exchange (NJFX) and large bandwidth transport provider Windstream (NASDAQ: WIN) have successfully expanded Windstream’s 100G long-haul express network.

Together, the two companies have established a direct network connection between Ashburn, Virginia, and NJFX’s carrier-neutral data center in Wall Township, New Jersey. It’s also the first direct network connection between NJFX’s Meet-Me Room (MMR), located at Tata Communications’ New Jersey-based Cable Landing Station (CLS), and Ashburn. The 230-plus-mile long-haul network now runs from Windstream’s Point of Presence (PoP) at 21715 Filigree Court in Ashburn to NJFX’s carrier-neutral data center in Wall Township.Windstream Communications

This is significant, as the network offers a critical bypass of the congested New York and Northern New Jersey markets, as well as several others, while also maintaining low latency and a high level of security. What’s more, Windstream is the only carrier with four separate paths to and from the Ashburn region. This access is highly significant, as 70 percent of the world’s Internet traffic runs through Northern Virginia, Windstream’s primary location.

Customers of NJFX will benefit from this premium network, as well as gain access to Windstream’s enterprise-class cloud communications, voice and data solutions. Windstream offers 100 Gigabit Ethernet services, and an expansive network of IP network and fiber solutions that spans the U.S. Windstream brings to the table 9 million square feet of data center space, access to 10 major third-party data centers and multiple data center campuses across greater Washington, D.C.

Tata Communications is sweetening the deal, too. The company continues to invest in its IP infrastructure at Wall Township, and has plans to offer a full portfolio of services there in March 2016. These services will include wavelength options, carrier-grade MPLS and 100 Gigabit Internet handoffs.

To discuss additional connectivity benefits of the expanded network, contact [email protected].

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Garden State’s Newest Data Center Gets Direct Fiber Tap to Brazil and Beyond

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Garden State’s Newest Data Center Gets Direct Fiber Tap to Brazil and Beyond

January 22, 2016

New Jersey Fiber Exchange (NJFX) this week announced it is developing a new 52,235-sq ft data center along the northern New Jersey coast that will provide direct connections to international submarine telecommunications cables, according to a company statement. The company, officially formed late last week, said it will partner with India-based telecom giant Tata Communications to provide colocation and other data center services at the new facility.

The news came on the same day that Tata announced it had bought into the Seabras-1 undersea cable currently under construction to link North America and Brazil. Seaborn Networks, which is the project’s developer and will operate the cable, earlier this week announced a deal that has Tata purchasing “significant capacity” on the undersea cable that will link the two countries with landing points in Wall, New Jersey, and Fortaleza and São Paulo in Brazil.

The linking of North America and Europe to South America is key to the promotional push by NJFX, which on its website highlights the new facility’s “Independent International Cable Access” to the regions.

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Windstream Expands Its 100G Network to NJFX’s Meet-Me Room at Tata Communications’ Cable Landing Station

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Windstream Expands Its 100G Network to NJFX’s Meet-Me Room at Tata Communications’ Cable Landing Station

January 18, 2016

New 230-Mile Extension Connects Windstream’s Ashburn, VA Network Core to NJFX’s Carrier-Neutral Data Center in Wall Township, NJ

WALL, NJ – JANUARY 18, 2016 – New Jersey Fiber Exchange (NJFX), a leader in data center and colocation solutions, and Windstream (NASDAQ: WIN), a leading provider of large bandwidth transport, announce today the expansion of Windstream’s 100G long-haul express network from the company’s 21715 Filigree Court, Ashburn, Virginia, Point of Presence (PoP) to NJFX’s carrier-neutral data center in Wall Township, New Jersey. The expansion will create the first direct network connection between NJFX’s Meet-Me Room (MMR) at the Tata Communications’ Cable Landing Station (CLS) and Ashburn.

The newly-established express fiber route offers customers four main benefits:

70 percent of the world’s Internet traffic travels through Northern Virginia, and Windstream is the only carrier that has four separate paths in and out of the area. The network connection also bypasses New York, Northern New Jersey, and other congested routes based on legacy infrastructure, ensuring low latency and secure connectivity.
NJFX customers gain access to Windstream’s enterprise-class cloud communications, advanced data and voice solutions, and reliable 100 Gigabit Ethernet services delivered over the company’s extensive nationwide fiber and IP network.
Windstream offers connectivity to and from 9 million square feet of data center, including ten major third-party data centers and data center campuses in the Washington D.C., area, which includes facilities in Ashburn, Reston and McLean, Virginia.
Tata Communications continues to invest in its IP infrastructure with plans to offer its full portfolio of services and solutions at the Wall Township facility in March 2016, including carrier-grade MPLS, Wavelength options and, ultimately, 100 Gigabit Internet hand-offs.

“In 2015, Windstream focused on expanding its network. This latest 230-plus-mile, 100G long-haul network extension reflects our commitment to meeting the rapidly expanding data needs of our customers,” remarks Joe Scattareggia, Senior Vice President of Sales for Windstream Carrier Solutions. “We built out our network to NJFX’s meet-me room in New Jersey as an additional termination point since this is a prime meeting hub for subsea cables connecting two continents.”

NJFX’s 64,800-square-foot, Tier 3 facility where subsea cables from the U.S. and Europe meet at the United States’ easternmost edge, will offer service providers, enterprises, carrier-neutral operators and cable companies direct interconnection options at the cable head-end without recurring cross-connect fees. The facility will encompass the latest in Tier 3 computing infrastructure design, featuring over 1,000 cabinets for carrier-neutral colocation and greater capacity, with densities ranging from 2kW to 16kW per cabinet to address high-density power needs.

“Partnering with Windstream fortifies NJFX with additional reliable, low latency 100G connectivity for our data center and meet-me room customers,” comments Gil Santaliz, Founder and Managing Member of NJFX. “With multiple subsea systems coming into our facility, our goal is to provide customers with reliable, diverse connectivity options in a highly-secure, fortified facility as close to the edge as a network operator could get.”

“Given the challenging economic conditions, fast, secure and reliable connectivity is crucial for businesses. The direct extension of our network and access to additional routes to Ashburn will ultimately enable organizations to reach global audiences faster, expand into new territories, and drive better collaboration worldwide in today’s hyper-connected marketplace,” states John Hayduk, President and Corporate Operations Officer at Tata Communications.

The NJFX data center will provide global connectivity to more than 240 countries and territories as well as 99.7% of the world’s GDP by way of Tata Communications’ global subsea fiber network, one of the largest and most advanced in the world. Furthermore, as the exclusive, carrier-neutral meet-me room operator inside Tata Communications’ Wall, NJ international CLS, NJFX tenants benefit from a high level of connectivity to leading service providers within the CLS.

Companies interested in discussing the connectivity benefits available by collocating at NJFX are encouraged to schedule a meeting with Gil Santaliz, Founder and Managing Member of NJFX at PTC’16 in Honolulu, HI. To request a meeting, please email [email protected].

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

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About New Jersey Fiber Exchange

New Jersey Fiber Exchange (NJFX) will be a carrier-neutral, highly secure, enterprise-class Tier 3 data center / colocation property focused on providing direct connectivity to international submarine cable systems via private backhaul solutions. The company’s 64,800,000-square-foot facility is planned to go live in 2016 and will feature high- and low-density data center solutions with 24/7 tech support, assisting carriers, content providers and enterprises as well as federal and state government entities. NJFX’s low latency colocation data center offerings provide the flexibility, reliability and security that global customers require to drive revenue, reduce expenses and improve service quality. For more information, please visit www.NJFX.net.

About Windstream

Windstream Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIN), a Fortune 500 company, is a leading provider of advanced network communications and technology solutions for consumers, small businesses, enterprise organizations and carrier partners across the U.S. Windstream offers bundled services, including broadband, security solutions, voice and digital TV to consumers. We also provide data, cloud solutions, unified communications and managed services to business and enterprise clients. The company supplies core transport solutions on a local and long-haul fiber-optic network spanning approximately 121,000 miles. Additional information is available at windstream.com. Please visit our newsroom at news.windstream.com or follow us on Twitter at @WindstreamNews.

About Tata Communications

Tata Communications Limited (CIN no: L64200MH1986PLC039266) along with its subsidiaries (Tata Communications) is a leading global provider of A New World of Communications™. With a leadership position in emerging markets, Tata Communications leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across its global and pan-India network to deliver managed solutions to multi-national enterprises, service providers and Indian consumers.

The Tata Communications global network includes one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks and a Tier-1 IP network with connectivity to over 240 countries and territories across 400 PoPs, as well as nearly 1 million square feet of data center and collocation space worldwide.

Tata Communications’ depth and breadth of reach in emerging markets includes leadership in Indian enterprise data services and leadership in global international voice. Tata Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India.

http://www.tatacommunications.com

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Windstream Visits NJFX, Tata at the Jersey Shore

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Windstream Visits NJFX, Tata at the Jersey Shore

January 16, 2016

Windstream has extended its 100G buildout to the Jersey Shore. The 230+ mile network expansion creates a direct path between key submarine cables and Ashburn in northern Virginia.

They’ve hooked up with NJFX’s meet-me room and data center in Wall Township, which sits alongside the Tata Communications cable landing station. Not only does Tata’s own transatlantic cable land there, but the new Seabras-1 cable to Brazil will also be moving in soon.

NJFX revealed plans to build a carrier neutral data center and meet-me room a year ago, and opened the meet-me room in September. The facility will offer 64,800 square feet of Tier 3 space at what it hopes to become a key point of interconnection for global networks.

U.S. sensors detect Russian submarines near underwater cables

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U.S. sensors detect Russian submarines near underwater cables

November 22, 2016

Washington (CNN) – When a Russian military ship called the Yantar suddenly crossed the Atlantic and started moving down the East Coast of the United States last month, it set off alarm bells inside the world of U.S. naval intelligence.

U.S. spy satellites, aircraft and submarines tracked the ship all the way down the coast to Cuba, according to two U.S. defense officials.

It had been years since the U.S. had seen this type of activity by the Russians, officials said. While the Russians have insisted the Yantar is not a spy ship, U.S. naval intelligence believes it has one significant and unsettling capability: small underwater vehicles that can cut vital undersea cables carrying vast amounts of commercial and military data, voice communications and Internet service between the U.S. and Europe.

Some of these details were first reported by the New York Times.

U.S. officials told CNN there was no indication that the Russians have any intention of cutting the cables, but they said that they are showing off their capability to U.S. naval intelligence by their actions.

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