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Meeting Global Connectivity Expectations and Bridging the Digital Divide

Gil Santaliz Weighs in On the Energy, Submarine, Fiber Carrier Interconnect Panel at 14th Content Delivery Summit Conference

Gil Santaliz

CEO

September 7, 2022

CDS

With 19% of the planet still not having access to telecommunications networks because of location, connectivity is not globally distributed. Subsea and underwater cabling is the only way to ensure connectivity over a long distance across land and sea.

Bridging the Digital Divide was one of many issues discussed during the Energy, Submarine, Fiber Carrier Interconnect Panel at the Content Delivery Summit conference. This thought-provoking panel discussed the real-world availability of fundamental infrastructure services that underpin all CDN operations, and the complexities to consider when deploying POPs around the world. Gil Santaliz, CEO of NJFX, was a core player on the panel and was joined by

Andy Bax, COO, Seaborn Networks and Elsa Pine, Global Sales – Emerging Technologies, Edge Infrastructure for EdgeConneX. The panel was moderated by Dom Robinson, Director and Creative Firestarter, id3as and Contributing Editor, StreamingMedia.com, UK.

“The world is vast, but has gotten a lot smaller because of the strength of today’s underwater cabling systems,” commented Santaliz. Gil would know. NJFX helps carriers strategically diversify connectivity options to key hubs across North America, Europe, and South America, bypassing legacy chokepoints. The world’s first colocation campus that strategically intersects a carrier-neutral subsea Cable Landing Station meet-me room with an independent Tier 3 colocation facility, NJFX is also a member of International Development Telecommunications Union Development Sector (ITU-D), which aims to work with governments to bring internet access to 75% of the global population by 2025 and universal, affordable access by 2030.

Everyone on the panel agreed that all of these goals are lofty, and that collaboration amongst the entire industry is necessary to meet them. COVID-19 has escalated expectations for the entire telecommunications industry and changed the world as we know it. People now need real-time access to not only content but life-altering commodities such as education and healthcare. The challenge is bridging the gap between where we are today and where we need to be.

Be sure to watch this thought-provoking panel in its entirety to learn how NJFX is working with others and leading the way in building infrastructure for a technology-enabled tomorrow.

You can check out the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJRTy4-WEZo

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About NJFX:

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

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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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