Connectivity Needs for Data Center Hosting
Switch and Data is now offering the Tabb Group report, Financial Services Data Centers: Power, Proximity and Profit, as a free download from their website.
There was a part of the paper that intrigued me and justified why CFN Services is in the Electronic Trading Space. CFN Services touts the electronic-trading-overview between Chicago and New York/New Jersey trading areas and many European Exchanges. CFN Services also is able to provide custom fiber solutions globally for Trading Firms. Those facts are fairly well known among the Trading firms. But this overlooks one of the greatest strengths of CFN Services, which is the ability to provide route and market intelligence to all of a Firms network. The biggest question many Firms are asking themselves is, “I don’t know what I don’t know, is there something we are overlooking?”. CFN Services, along with their FiberSource® platform, allow a client to really understand all options available to them and to know the exact physical path they currently have. As it states in the quote below, from the Tabb Report, Financial Services Data Centers: Power, Proximity and Profit, getting from point A to B is not a constant in the fiber access business. The latency between carriers can be significantly different and in turn their paths can take circuitous routes that effect overall mileage. Working with a network design and implementation partner such as, CFN Services, allows you not only knowledge of your existing routes, but the ability to effect change to those routes. CFN Services has the ability to work with optimal spans from multiple carriers to provide you the best latency solution you require. Being Carrier Neutral, allows CFN Services the breadth to pull together the solution that best meets your needs depending on your priorities for latency, price and time to implementation.
Page 15 from Tabb Report
“For example, while one carrier might provide a cheap connection to Chicago, a rival may have considerably less costly access to London. Beyond cost, some carriers provide faster access to certain markets. This is not based on the type of cable, as most fiber-optics are created equal, but on the exact path between point A and point B. Data centers are not connected by straight lines of cable, but by a web of fiber that was laid over the past 20 years. Therefore, clarity of the path an electronic order must take to get from the data center in Manhattan to the execution venue in New Jersey is critically important to understanding true latency. “
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