EuroWire January 2020

Transatlantic cable

“We are proud to be the catalyst of the first ever CLS-to-CLS terrestrial route,” stated Gil Santaliz, CEO for NJFX. “This is an integral part of the shift the industry is seeing in new infrastructure being deployed to replace the old networking models. The total capacity of the subsea cables coming out of these two cable landing stations is greater than all of the capacity of the previously placed North American subsea cables, stretching across the Atlantic, combined. Windstream and Telxius are bilaterally leveraging each company’s routes to address customer network diversity requirements and capacity needs. The potential for clients is endless.” Extending reach “Our fibre deployment between two of the most important cable landing stations along the east coast aligns with Windstream’s core strategy to take our national network global,” commented Joe Scattareggia, executive vice president, Windstream Wholesale. “Our fibre connectivity across the US, from Canada to Mexico, combined with our build-out at the NJFX CLS campus in New Jersey and at the Telxius CLS campus in Virginia Beach, offers customers the ability to leverage our national network and go beyond.” Windstream’s domestic network consists of 150,000 fibre route miles connecting Tier 1, 2 and 3 cities throughout the USA. Windstream provides high-speed connectivity directly into NJFX CLS and Telxius CLS campuses, enabling access to multiple subsea cable systems. Customers can now also extend their reach, through Telxius’s network, into South America and Europe.

and hundreds of retail locations, under a Justice Department deal to win anti-trust approval for the merger. However, New York Attorney General Letitia James said that the agreement with Colorado will not fix the “nationwide harms” created by the merger of the USA’s third and fourth largest wireless carriers. “We remain committed to challenging this merger, and have continued to develop strong evidence that it is bad for consumers, bad for workers, and bad for innovation,” she said. The lawsuit against Sprint and T-Mobile, and their respective parent companies, asserts the merger will lead to higher prices for consumers. NJFX, the only cable landing station (CLS) co-location campus in the USA to offer Tier 3, carrier-neutral data centre capabilities, is also the first CLS-to-CLS terrestrial interconnection, connecting NJFX’s CLS in Wall, New Jersey, to Telxius’s CLS facilities in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The move is partly due to its strategic location, 64 feet above sea level, and its Category 5 hurricane-resistant CLS campus. The three cables it currently accesses were to be increased to four subsea cables by the end of 2019, so exceeding 500 Terabits per second of transmission capacity. The Telxius communications campus at Virginia Beach provides direct access to the two top-capacity subsea cables in the world, MAREA and BRUSA. Increase in global connectivity options with a landing station first

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