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

Gil Santaliz

CEO

March 29, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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About NJFX:

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

Eastlink is excited to expand our network into NJFX’s robust telecom ecosystem. This will provide diverse routing for key destinations such as Ashburn, VA while avoiding the congested NYC metro area."
Steve Irvine
Steve IrvineSenior VP Engineering and CTO
We are pleased to be participating in this unique, carrier neutral ecosystem NJFX has created to deepen our relationship with the wholesale carrier community as well as provide the enterprise customers optionally for access to diverse terrestrial networks and our Seabras-1 subsea cable system. This is an exciting opportunity to reach new customers with flexibility and scale while driving end-user enablement at this world-class facility.
Steve Orlando
Steve OrlandoCEO
We are continually looking for ways to strategically expand our offerings to customers, through our new Point-of-Presence at NJFX, we have added another critical location to address customer’s growing requirements for access to our advanced and powerful global network, including our extensive fiber footprint in the U.S., which is now available coast-to-coast for wholesale customers.”
Michael DeChiara
Michael DeChiara Associate Vice President, AT&T Wholesale Solutions
Our collaboration with NJFX gives Colt customers rapid access to critical digital infrastructure and satisfies the diversity and low latency needs of some of the most demanding customers in the financial sector,
Robin Farnan
Robin FarnanEVP – Operations & Engineering at Colt
On-Demand connectivity opens incredible possibilities for different verticals or even carriers looking to expand into Latam while minimizing risk and cost of entry. With this unique offering we are introducing a new way to improve the traditional model, providing the right flexibility and dynamicity to scale resources as needed”
Jeremy Villalobos
Jeremy VillalobosCOO at Orchest.
As we embark on this strategic partnership with NJFX, we’re not just connecting infrastructure; we’re forging a pathway for our customers to traverse the digital landscape faster and more efficiently than ever before. We are excited to be partnering with NJFX and this collaboration amplifies opportunities for our customers to access Europe with unprecedented speed on the EXA network. We are committed to providing cutting-edge solutions in today’s digital era that is defined by connectivity.
Steve Roberts
Steve RobertsVP Network Investments
We are excited to expand our network to NJFX. Today’s network expansion furthers our goal of providing more connectivity globally to as many enterprises as possible, while satisfying critical bandwidth demands.
Mike Leber
Mike LeberPresident
United Fiber & Data is excited to bring our geographically diverse fiber network and flexible, low latency lit services of 10G and 100G to provide secure, high capacity network connectivity to NJFX and its clients. United Fiber & Data’s fiber infrastructure and scalable capacity on its unique route and the ability to turn up services quickly positions us to be the provider of choice for secure, high capacity, low latency network connectivity.
Christopher Lodge
Christopher LodgeCOO and interim CEO
Establishing a PoP at NJFX provides Console Connect and PCCW Global users with access to direct, low latency routes to major business hubs along the east coast. At the same time, we are excited to bring Console Connect’s on-demand global connectivity to NJFX customers, who can experience the agility and flexibility of Software Defined Interconnection®.
Marc Halbfinger
Marc HalbfingerCEO
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