NJFX

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

NJFX
IndustryTelecommunications
FounderGil Santaliz
Headquarters
Wall Township, New Jersey
,
United States
Key people
Gil Santaliz, Managing Member
ProductsData center services, colocation, cable landing station
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 January 2017, its Tier III center was completed.[8] In March, NJFX announced they were adding an additional data center on their campus.[9]

In September 2018, the company announced that the HAVFRUE transatlantic submarine network cable would be landing at its Wall, NJ cable landing station. The cable was planned to run between New Jersey and Denmark, with branches to Norway and Ireland.[10]

In March 2019, Amazon Web Services signed an agreement with Norwegian infrastructure company Bulk Infrastructure to use the upcoming HAVFRUE cable at its United States termination points at NJFX's campus, along with termination points at Dublin, Norway and Western Denmark.[11]

In December 2020, the 7851km HAVFRUE cable went into service as the first new undersea cable traveling from Northern Europe to the US in nearly 20 years.[12] It terminated at the NJFX facility in Wall, NJ, and its capacity services were marketed by operator Aqua Comms under the name American Europe Connect-2 (AEC-2).[12]

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.[13] The NJFX campus also contains a cable landing station serving several subsea cables, including the HAVFRUE AEC-2 cable connecting to Northern Europe, as well as Tata's TGN1 and TGN2 cables, and Seaborn Networks' Seabras cable.[12][14] Notable clients include Google, Facebook, US telecommunications company CenturyLink (now Lumen Technologies), Verizon Communications, and Amazon Web Services.[10][15][11]

References
  1. "Cablevision's Optimum Lightpath Buys N.J. Fiber Provider". multichannel.com. October 21, 2008. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  2. "Tata deploys PoP at New Jersey Fiber Exchange". lightwaveonline.com. November 8, 2016. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  3. "NJFX to open data center at New Jersey cable landing". datacenterdynamics.com. September 29, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  4. "NJFX launches data centre with access to Europe and South America". capacitymedia.com. January 27, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  5. "Bringing Submarine Cable Landing Facilities to the New Jersey Shore". telecomreviewna.com. May 1, 2016. Archived from the original on January 24, 2019. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  6. "New Jersey Fiber Exchange Begins Construction of New Data Center". transformingnetworkinfrastructure.com. September 29, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  7. "Windstream establishes 100G express route in red-hot Ashburn, Va. market via NJFX". fiercetelecom.com. January 19, 2016. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  8. "NJFX completes 65k sq ft Tier 3 colocation campus". Capacity Media. January 19, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  9. "NJFX To Expand Its Cable Landing Station Campus". missioncriticalmagazine.com. March 21, 2017. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  10. "HAVFRUE transatlantic submarine cable network to land at NJFX cable landing station campus". Lightwave Online. September 18, 2018. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  11. "Bulk in HAVFRUE Agreement with Amazon Web Services". Offshore Energy. March 27, 2019. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  12. "AEC-2 HAVFRUE". Submarine Networks. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  13. "NJFX's Santaliz Says High Speed Fiber, High Availability Infrastructure to Revitalize the Jersey Shore". njtechweekly.com. October 8, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  14. "DE-CIX PoP deployed at NJFX campus". Data Center Dynamics. February 11, 2020. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  15. "NJFX welcomes Verizon point of presence at NJ facility". October 15, 2020. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
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