 This is JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals, and JSA Radio, the boys for tech and telecom on iHeart Radio. Gil Santelis is joining us here today. He is the CEO and founder of New Jersey Fiber Exchanger, NJFX. Gil, thank you for taking the time for JSA TV. Thank you for having me. So today is an exciting day. We are launching his amazing facility right here in Wall Township, New Jersey. Can you tell us how did this even happen? What inspired you? Where did you get the idea that this is the location? Sure. After I sold my company back in 2008, I realized there was a void in the marketplace, and that was international cable landing stations. As we all know, these cables land in the U.S., but they all go back to traditional locations, New York City, Miami. And in a sense, that's not where the connectivity really happens. It really happens at the cable landing station. So the idea of having a co-location physically located at the cable landing station was something that was actually needed in the industry. So we partnered with Tata Communications, bought the land from them, and created the first campus that interconnects subsea networks with U.S. networks. We've taken all the friends we have from our industry, all the backhaul providers, and now we have them here with the subsea providers. And your campus includes both the data center as well as the meeting room operator for Tata's building. Can you tell us a little bit about that relationship? Sure, sure. The relationship we have is that we own and operate this facility, which is the Tier 3 NJFX facility. What Tata allowed us to do is to also operate as a carrier neutral operator exclusively the meet me room in their facility. So in essence, any customer of Tata in the facility can interconnect within our meet me room in the Tata facility, but also we connect that meet me room to the meet me room in this building, and therefore creating a campus environment. So now we have a campus with a cable landing station with a meet me room that's carrier neutral operated, as well as an interconnected Tier 3 site with its own meet me room, and now we have robust connectivity. Now we have backhaul providers live in the facility. You can go from this location to Ashburn, Virginia, the Chicago, to Mawa, where the New York Stock Exchange is, or NASDAQ, you've got endless opportunities for connectivity. And is this fact right? You built this Tier 3 facility that we're standing in here today in one year? It is true. As a matter of fact, we're still less than a year away from the day we broke ground. So breaking ground was October of last year, and we put together a schedule, and once the schedule was set, we announced this event, and there was no turning back at that point. So here we are with the event starting tomorrow, and our doors are open. We'll start a commissioning process starting on Friday, within 45 days we'll have everything turned up with generators and redundant systems, and customers are actually moving in now as we speak. Which makes me want to ask you, where do you expect NJFX to be a year from now? We're going to take our time. We're going to have customers move in slowly, retail customers. We are courting a few larger enterprise customers and one of a presence here as well. But in order to do this right, we have to allow everyone to see to the table. And that means we should allow all the carriers, all the enterprise customers of a presence here. If we do that well, this will serve not just our industry, but also serve our country in terms of international connectivity. And making sure that the SANS, your 9-11 won't affect how you interconnect your networks. Also support low latency applications as well. There's no need for you to land in the shores of the United States of New Jersey, head into New York City to go to Ashburn, Virginia to go to California. We're giving you direct access. There's no more need to have to make a stop along the way that you don't only need to stop. And you're stopping along those back call issues as well? We are. There's traditionally back call here was very limited, one provider. Now we have eight providers with different network systems that have redundant cables as well. So now we have an opportunity for all these providers to do a better job for their customers and the end user to have options and that makes sense. And after being here and seeing this amazing facility and the people that you have working for you and the team and the love, there's also a built-in, from what I see, trust factor in that NJFX brand. Can you tell us a little bit about how you foster that? Sure. So having been a dark provider before, I realized the role that we played and I take on this role with the same kind of responsibility. We know that we have to do a good job for our customers 24-7. They depend on us, provide what they do for their customers and my team of folks that came from Equinix with 25-year histories, folks that came from the telecom industry for the last 25 years, all of us realize the importance of what we do. We realize all these wires mean a lot to the folks in the end of them. Whether they're sitting here or they're sitting somewhere across the United States or sitting somewhere around the world, we know the role that we play affects others and we take that role on very seriously. You can tell. So for those of us who want to learn more, where can they go? Well, they have to come to our website at www.njfx.net and hopefully see more about us in the media as well. Wonderful. Well, thank you Gail for joining us. Thank you. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JFA TV.