“ We ’ re creating infrastructure in a carrier neutral way – we don ' t sell to the customers of our customers . We stay in the layer of the industry which is neutral for anybody ”
NIGEL BAYLIFF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER ,
AQUA COMMS EXECUTIVE BIO
NIGEL BAYLIFF
TITLE : CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER COMPANY : AQUA COMMS INDUSTRY : TELECOMMUNICATIONS LOCATION : DUBLIN , IRELAND
Nigel Bayliff , CEO of Aqua
Comms , is a global telecom veteran of 30 + years ' experience . He has been a consultant to cable development , private equity and government clients , and Vice- Chairman of the United Nations Joint Task Force .
Bayliff was also CEO of Huawei Marine Networks , where he introduced technological advances . Previously , he was a member of the executive team of FLAG Telecom where he was responsible for the operation of the FLAG Global Network , which encompasses 65,000 km of submarine cable systems providing carrier-grade connectivity to 40 countries . In 2006 , he was elected as a Fellow of the UK Institute of Engineering Technology . for Ontix ’ s small cell infrastructure is the UK market extending out of London into the shires . These connectivity solutions are relied upon by today ' s cloud , content and carrier players .
“ Ontix is at the forefront of providing the last few metres of connectivity to the end user ,” comments Patrick Bradd , CEO of Ontix . “ The demand for capacity is unrelenting and while Aqua Comms is about moving bandwidth across the Atlantic we are getting it to the end user .”
For anyone sending a selfie from Copenhagen to New Jersey along Aqua Comms second cable ( AEC-2 ) it ’ s fascinating to hear from Bayliff that it passes the iconic hull of the RMS Titanic which lies on the seabed off the coast of Newfoundland . “ You can see some of the debris fields of the Titanic on our survey charts as our cable goes through a place known as the Seamounts Monument Area off the North East coast of the US ,” says Bayliff who speaks passionately about an industry he has been part of since 1988 .
Spine of the digital infrastructure Submarine cables make up the invisible information highways driving the global internet and form the spine of the digital infrastructure that power a digital world .
Dublin & London to New York was Aqua Comm ’ s first fibre-optic network route to deliver secure , low latency , high-quality transatlantic connectivity with diverse
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