NJFX

NJFX, also known as New Jersey Fiber Exchange, is a Wall Township, NJ-based data center operator. The company offers Tier 3 data center, meet-me room and colocation services from a 58-acre site adjacent to Tata Communications' subsea cable landing station.

NJFX
IndustryTelecommunications
FounderGil Santaliz
Headquarters
Wall Township, New Jersey
,
United States
Key people
Gil Santaliz, Managing Member
ProductsData center services, colocation
Websitewww.njfx.net

History

NJFX was founded by Gil Santaliz, a telecommunications executive who in 2008 sold metro dark fiber provider 4Connections to Optimum Lightpath, a subsidiary of NY cable operator Cablevision (now Altice USA).[1] Tata Communications was a founding partner of NJFX.[2]

NJFX opened a meet-me room (MMR) within Tata Communication's Wall, NJ subsea cable landing station (CLS).[3] One of Tata's cables terminating in the cable landing station is the Seabras-1 undersea cable, which links North America and Brazil, with a landing point in Sao Paulo.[4] Tata's TGN Atlantic subsea cable also lands in Wall Township, connecting to Highbridge, Somerset, United Kingdom. As the MMR operator, NJFX managed the network connections between its own customers and those of Tata Communication's CLS.[5]

In September 2015, NJFX announced they would be constructing a 64,000 sq ft Tier III data center adjacent to Tata's CLS, providing direct access to their European and South America subsea cables.[3] Design would be done by Boston-based Bala Consulting Engineers.[6]

In January 2016, voice and data network provider Windstream announced it was extending its 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100G) network from NJFX's presence at the CLS to Ashburn, Virginia's Internet hub.[7] In September, the new data center came online.[8]

In March 2017, NJFX announced they were adding an additional data center on their campus.[9]

Services

NJFX operates a data center campus in Wall Township, NJ, offering meet-me room, data center and colocation services to business customers. The center is adjacent to a substation operated by Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L), a subsidiary of energy giant FirstEnergy.[10]

References
  1. "Cablevision's Optimum Lightpath Buys N.J. Fiber Provider". multichannel.com. 2008-10-21. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  2. "Tata deploys PoP at New Jersey Fiber Exchange". lightwaveonline.com. 2016-11-08. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  3. "NJFX to open data center at New Jersey cable landing". datacenterdynamics.com. 2015-09-29. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  4. "NJFX launches data centre with access to Europe and South America". capacitymedia.com. 2015-01-27. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  5. "Bringing Submarine Cable Landing Facilities to the New Jersey Shore". telecomreviewna.com. 2016-03-01. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  6. "New Jersey Fiber Exchange Begins Construction of New Data Center". transformingnetworkinfrastructure.com. 2015-09-29. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  7. "Windstream establishes 100G express route in red-hot Ashburn, Va. market via NJFX". fiercetelecom.com. 2016-01-19. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  8. "Industry Spotlight: Gil Santaliz on NJFX's "Tier 3 by the Subsea"". telecomramblings.com. 2016-09-21. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  9. "NJFX To Expand Its Cable Landing Station Campus". missioncriticalmagazine.com. 2017-03-21. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  10. "NJFX's Santaliz Says High Speed Fiber, High Availability Infrastructure to Revitalize the Jersey Shore". njtechweekly.com. 2015-10-08. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
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