Cyxtera's Weehawken Nj2X site in the New York Metro was acquired via a $2.8 billion transaction to acquire 57 datacenters from CenturyLink. The transaction which closed in May 2017 created Cyxtera Technologies.
Financial Trading Hub:
The CenturyLink NJ2X datacenter houses several major financial exchanges.
- The IEX primary trading platform, located at the CenturyLink (NJ2X) data center in Weehawken. The IEX secondary data center is located at the Equinix (CH4) data center in Chicago.
- BofAML Instinct X electronic trading infrastructure is hosted at two separate data centers: Savvis NJ2X, in Weekhawken, NJ, and CenturyLink NJ3 in Piscataway, NJ
Quick Facts:
- Utility Provider: PSE&G
- Five Story Building
- Raised Floor: 24"
Network Providers:
CenturyLink
Anova Technologies
AT&T (TCG / LNS)
CFN
Hibernia
Hudson Fiber
Level 3
Lightower
Lightower (Lexent)
NextGen
Optimum Lightpath
Perseus Telecom
Lightower (Sidera)
Spread Networks
TW Telecom
Verizon
XO
Yipes
Zayo (Abovenet)