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.

FROM CAPACITY MEDIA | Agnes Stubbs

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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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