DENVER & JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Internet traffic flowing between North and South America has a new, more direct path through Jacksonville, Florida. Cologix, a network-neutral interconnection and data center company, announced today that members of the Pacific Caribbean Cable System consortium have deployed Points of Presence (PoPs) in Cologix’s JAX 1 data center at 421 West Church Street. Cable Andino (Telconet Group), Setar and UTS all have PoPs connected to the landing station via dark fiber, creating disruptive access points for networks exchanging traffic to the Caribbean and South America.
Until today, Internet and private network traffic destined for the Caribbean and most parts of South America had to traverse terrestrial networks down the Florida peninsula and across older subsea systems, primarily out of Miami. The PCCS cable system creates an alternate route for its customers and partners, which avoids the network congestion, risk and cost of routing through Miami before jumping on subsea express routes. Together, the countries with landing stations outside the United States boast 20% more Internet subscribers than California, making the highway an important onramp for an attractive set of consumers for Internet and content services.
“We are including Jacksonville in our network design for strategic reasons, most notably that connecting into US fiber networks further north reduces hurricane risk and latency,” explains Carlos Pazmino Campos, Executive at Cable Andino and who also is Chairman of the PCCS Consortium. “Jacksonville’s location and position as a deep sea port made it a natural choice once we had determined that we wanted to create an alternative to Miami.”
“Cologix operates the Meet-Me-Room in Jacksonville,” adds Reginald Martes, Executive at UTS Netherlands Antilles. “Deploying our PoPs with Cologix provides us the broadest access to customers, partner networks and dark fiber providers, all of which will be central to the success of our cable system. These are important deployments for us and we trust Cologix’s operating reputation and ongoing investment in the region.”
“We are honored to welcome these PCCS members to the Jacksonville community,” says Grant van Rooyen, chief executive officer, Cologix. “As a neutral interconnection provider, we are dedicated to attracting the most important and unique networks, and buyers for those networks to our facilities. The vision of innovative networks like the PCCS members gives us confidences that Jacksonville will continue to serve as a disruptive force affecting how bits move across the global network map.”
The PCCS cable is currently operational and passing traffic. Those interested in capacity on the subsea system should contact the sales organizations from each respective member directly for more information.
About PCCS Consortium
Cable & Wireless Communications, Setar, Cable Andino and United Telecommunication Services (UTS) created a consortium that built the Pacific Caribbean Cable System (PCCS) a high speed undersea (100Gbps) fibre-optic cable system that runs 6000 km between Jacksonville, FL, and Manta, Ecuador. The PCCS will have eight landing stations, one in the US (Jacksonville, Florida), one in Puerto Rico (San Juan), two in Panama (Maria Chiquita and Balboa) and one each in the BVI (Tortola), Aruba (Hudishibana), Colombia (Cartagena) and Ecuador (Manta).
About Cable Andino
Cable Andino is part of the TELCONET Group, a group of companies with operations in Ecuador with a history of over 18 years in Connectivity Solutions, Internet, Data Center and Managed Services. With a solid platform of fiber optic infrastructure of a high level of capillarity which has enabled to develop business coupled with the rest of its subsidiaries that belong to the Business Group as well as with their business partners. www.telconet.ec/en/ for more information on TELCONET’S participation in PCCS, please visit: www.telconet.net/en/services/pccs
About Setar
SETAR is the pioneer company in Aruba and the leader on the telecommunications area. Continuously SETAR brings innovation and the newest technologies to our Aruban community with the latest in products and services of the highest quality possible at a fair price. SETAR is a 100% Aruban run company that keeps habitants of Aruba and visitors with access of communications wherever they are, on the island or when they are in another country. www.setar.aw/
About UTS
The UTS Group is one of the Caribbean’s premier, integrated and growing providers of proven telecommunication technology serving consumers, businesses, governments, and other institutions in the Caribbean area, South America, and Europe. UTS provides advanced, reliable and competitive telecommunication solutions and after-sales care for its customers, wherever these are, whoever they may be, for personal or professional use. Backed with over 90 years of experience, UTS is the market leader and trendsetter in its main markets in long distance and mobile telephony services, Internet services, advanced data networks as well as in transaction-based services such as collect calling, lease lines, pre-paid cards and pre-paid mobile telephony. www.uts.cw
About Cologix Inc.
Cologix Inc. is a network-neutral interconnection and colocation data center company headquartered in Denver. Cologix provides scalable interconnection services and secure, reliable colocation services. Cologix operates densely connected, strategically located facilities in Columbus, Dallas, Jacksonville, Lakeland, Minneapolis, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. With more than 350 network choices and 21 prime interconnection locations, Cologix currently serves over 950 carrier, managed services, cloud, media, content, financial services and enterprise customers. The company’s experienced local service teams are committed to providing its customers the highest standard of local customer support. To arrange a tour of the center closest to you, contact us at sales@cologix.com. Follow Cologix on LinkedIn and Twitter.
