PCCS Consortium Selects Cologix’s Jacksonville Data Center
The move will interconnect customers and partners to new subsea cable system.
Cologix has announced that members of the Pacific Carribean 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.