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Companies’ first deployment is designed to enable Canadian website tracking aggregated market-data messages across North American exchanges

Herndon, VA (PRWeb). — June 16, 2011 — CFN Services, the leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, today announced that Exegy, the market leader in high-performance ticker plants, has selected the Alpha Platform™ to deploy the ultra-low-latency, hardware-accelerated Exegy Ticker Plant.

With unmatched throughput and ultra-low latency, the Exegy Ticker Plant processes and enriches data for the world’s leading collocated trading operations. A single Exegy Ticker Plant provides all the updates for www.MarketDataPeaks.com, the first public website that provides a minute-by-minute account of the aggregated volume of market-data messages across major North American exchanges.

“The Alpha Platform™ provides an ideal infrastructure for the Exegy Ticker Plant offering,” said Jeff Wells, Vice President of Product Marketing, Exegy. “Our first deployment with CFN Services will be at the Toronto data center where we plan to create a MarketDataPeaks website for Canada.”

The infrastructure that forms the foundation of the Alpha Platform™ provides ultra-low-latency market data delivery and trade execution for some of the world’s most sophisticated high-frequency trading firms. Trading application vendors can now leverage this same infrastructure to jumpstart low-latency global delivery of their solutions, while trading firms can rapidly deploy these applications in a high performance environment to capture more Alpha and increased trading profits.

“CFN Services has launched a premier platform for seamless integration of low-latency market and event data with high-performance trading applications,” said Sebastian Yoon, CFN Services’ Vice President of Financial Services. “We’re excited about bringing Exegy’s ticker plant technology to the Alpha Platform™, further expanding the market leading solutions it integrates across key liquidity venues worldwide.”

About Exegy Exegy provides ultra-high performance hardware-accelerated market data appliances (www.exegy.com/tickerplant) that efficiently process and enrich market data for the world’s leading financial organizations. Exegy’s unique market data products respond to financial organizations’ growing demands for low latency, reduced cost of ownership, and flexibility. Exegy’s products are compatible with leading operating systems and interconnects. For more information, please visit www.exegy.com.

About CFN Services in the Global Financial Markets CFN Services is a leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, providing solutions that accelerate market data delivery and trade execution for some of the most sophisticated financial markets participants worldwide. CFN Services operates the low-latency Alpha Platform™, a high performance global cloud that accelerates trading performance for automated traders across key liquidity venues in the equities, options, futures, derivatives, and FX markets.

About CFN Services CFN Services provides high performance network and application delivery solutions for real-time, mission critical applications. Leveraging FiberSource^®, a global network optimization platform, CFN Services builds low-latency private cloud solutions to solve the performance challenges of latency and jitter in distributed IT environments. Whether the application and data are dispersed across town or around the globe, CFN Services deploys turnkey solutions within and between public and private data centers in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.

Press Contacts:

CFN Services

Judy Misbin-May

+1-703-788-6633

judy.misbin-may@cfnservices.com

Exegy

Jeff Wells

+1-314-218-3626

jwells@exegy.com

Inside Market Data, an Incisive Media Publication, has named CFN Services, a finalist for the 2011 Inside Market Data – Best Data Networking and Infrastructure Provider. Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards recognize industry excellence with market data, reference data and enterprise data management. CFN Services is joined by 6 other firms in this category including; NYSE Technologies , Thomson Reuters, and Equinix.

“We are pleased to be included among the leading companies in this category,” said Mark Casey, President and CEO of CFN Services, “this recognition is validation of our commitment to our clients, and our optimized delivery of their market data and trading applications worldwide.”

Judges for this category include representatives from Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase and HSBC among the 12-member panel. The awards are presented annually to recognize achievement in market and reference data, as well as enterprise data management. The winner of the 2011 award will be announced in New York on May 24, 2011.

TAMPA, Fla. – December 2, 2009 – Switch and Data (NASDAQ: SDXC), a leading provider of network-neutral data center and Internet exchange services, announced today that CFN Services, a leading ultra low-latency network and custom fiber optic network integrator in the financial industry, has joined Switch and Data’s GeoReach partnership program.  CFN will provide clients with turnkey or custom-designed, low latency interconnections to multiple regional exchanges from Switch and Data’s New York and Toronto Financial EcoCentersSM.  CFN FiberSource(r) Advisor provides professional services to assist financial firms in their regional or global network design, planning, and strategy to enhance their individual electronic trading strategies.

CFN Services, the low-latency leader, provides low-latency global exchange connectivity; offering specific ultra low-latency solutions for the trading areas in Toronto, Chicago, New York/ New Jersey Metro, Washington DC, Sao Paulo, London/London Metro, Frankfurt and Tokyo.   CFN is recognized as one of the only network providers to offer the Low Latency Guarantee along with a Latency Improvement Plan. The key to the integrated solution provided by CFN Services is the ability to identify metro fiber, long haul, and the collocation space to piece together the carrier networks onto one optimal path.   CFN sets itself apart from other transport vendors by offering carrier neutrality, professional services, fully managed services and the ability to design and implement custom fiber networks.

“We are proud to be part of Switch and Data’s new GeoReach program,” said David Conrad, Vice President of Finanical Market Sales, CFN Services. “CFN and Switch and Data can now deliver a complete low-latency solution in the most ideal market locations in New York and Toronto. Under this partnership, we can implement a competitive and comprehensive solution to the most demanding high frequency trading or latency-sensitive infrastructure.”

Switch and Data’s GeoReach partnership program is a select group of providers who have engineered their networks to meet the needs of the high frequency trading community. GeoReach partners have engineered optimum paths from Switch and Data’s EcoCenters to each of the regional liquidity providers that satisfy the requirements of the most latency-sensitive infrastructure. Firms can focus on their core and add each new ATS or Exchange using a low cost, minimal footprint while still maintaining ultra low latency communication across the markets.

“Adding CFN Services to our GeoReach partner program in our New York and Toronto Financial EcoCenters enhances our ability to offer customers ultra-low-latency connectivity to their desired exchanges,” said John Panzica, Vice President of Switch and Data’s Financial Services Practice.  “As more customers utilize trading strategies across the entire market landscape, a selection of optimized paths to the region’s liquidity providers becomes ever more crucial. CFN’s continual optimization creates a compelling story for firms seeking to stay ahead of the curve.”

GeoReach Partners are a critical element of Switch and Data’s Financial EcoCenters which provide mission-critical infrastructure to meet the security, volume and low-latency requirements of the electronic trading community.  These EcoCenters aggregate an ecosystem of the pre and post- trade service provider, buy-side and sell-side communities into Switch and Data sites located in the geographic center of the major liquidity providers in New York and Toronto.

About CFN Services

CFN Services, the Low Latency Leader, is a managed telecom infrastructure services company providing network services for the Enterprise, Public Sector and Carrier Markets, specializing in network design, planning, deployment, and managed services, including: Low Latency Global Exchange Connectivity, Global, Regional and metro network design and cost optimization and mobile backhaul optimization

CFN Services specializes in Data Center optimization ensuring the long haul network enhances the Enterprise distributed network strategy. CFN Services leverages FiberSource®, a global knowledge-based platform that can view all available dark and lit fiber, collocation, and lit buildings; providing the ability to quickly identify and design ultra low latency solutions. Learn how CFN Services can ensure you are Optimizing the Power of your Network www.cfnservices.com

About Switch and Data

Switch and Data is a premier provider of network-neutral data centers that house, power and interconnect the Internet. Leading content companies, enterprises and communications service providers rely on Switch and Data to connect to customers and exchange Internet traffic. Switch and Data has built a reputation for world-class service, delivered across the broadest colocation footprint and richest network of interconnections in North America. Switch and Data operates 34 sites in the U.S. and Canada, provides one of the highest customer satisfaction scores for technical and engineering support in the industry, and is home to PAIX® — the world’s first commercial Internet exchange.

Important information about Switch and Data is routinely posted to the investor relations section of the company’s website www.switchanddata.com. For copies of all Switch and Data press releases and SEC filings, please visit the website. To automatically receive Switch and Data financial news by email, please visit the website and subscribe to Email Alerts. Investors are encouraged to check Switch and Data’s website frequently to access the most up-to-date information.

Mark Casey, President of CFN Services, will be discussing the ability to mitigate risk from your low latency connectivity strategy utilizing a solution that alleviates dependency on single source providers and provides an integrated hosting and connectivity strategy.  Mark brings his experience from his over year 20year history  in telecommunication networks having worked at such companies at AT&T, MCI and CSX Fiber Networks. Mark Casey was the managing director of CSX Fiber Networks and spearheaded the spin off of CSX Fiber Network  to form what is now CFN Services.  CFN Services also acquired the proprietary asset FiberSource® which is a knowledge-based platform delivering access to over 550 carrier networks globally including more than 100 submarine systems; providing direct visibility into all available dark and lit fiber options, collocation facilities, and metro fiber rings for optimal deployment to any global financial center worldwide. This experience and tool set provides Mark the ability to have a deep understanding and knowledge required for an Global Connectivity Exchange Solutions.

Event Name: Switch and Data Presents: Financial Market Structure: Panel Event

Event Date: 11/19/2009 – 11/19/2009

Event Location: Helmsley Hotel, 212 East 42nd Street, NY, NY 10017

Panelist:

Host:
John Panzica, Vice President, Financial Services Practice, Switch and Data

Moderator
Kevin McPartland, Senior Analyst, TABB Group

Panelists
Nigel Faulkner, Managing Director, CTO Equities Trading, Goldman Sachs
George Hessler, Executive Vice President, Lime Brokerage
William Warner Director, Sales Engineering, Reliance Globalcom
Mark Casey, President, CFN Services, Incorporated
Josh Schubkegel, Exective Director, Client Facing Technology, UBS

Event Description: Financial Market Structure: Architectural and Infrastructure Challenges in the New Trading World Many new material changes have firms overhauling their trading infrastructure. How does your overall strategy stack up against the next guy? Join us for a panel discussion about the latest trends and challenges that have firms re-designing for 2010.

Event Website: http://www.switchanddata.com/Financial/Fall-Event

Event Name: Switch and Data Presents: Financial Market Structure: Panel Event

Event Date: 11/19/2009 – 11/19/2009

Event Location: Helmsley Hotel, 212 East 42nd Street, NY, NY 10017

Panelist:

Host:
John Panzica, Vice President, Financial Services Practice, Switch and Data

Moderator
Kevin McPartland, Senior Analyst, TABB Group

Panelists
Nigel Faulkner, Managing Director, CTO Equities Trading, Goldman Sachs
George Hessler, Executive Vice President, Lime Brokerage
William Warner Director, Sales Engineering, Reliance Globalcom
Mark Casey, President, CFN Services, Incorporated
Josh Schubkegel, Exective Director, Client Facing Technology, UBS

Event Description: Financial Market Structure: Architectural and Infrastructure Challenges in the New Trading World Many new material changes have firms overhauling their trading infrastructure. How does your overall strategy stack up against the next guy? Join us for a panel discussion about the latest trends and challenges that have firms re-designing for 2010.

Event Website: http://www.switchanddata.com/Financial/Fall-Event

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Trading operations overall need to be agile and flexible in order to meet ever changing demands and to rapidly exploit business opportunities. The regrouping of traders to react to – even pre-empt – market demand, requires trading positions that can be immediately configured to individual trader’s preference and information needs. At the same time, management and operational costs of trading operations need to be driven down in reaction to the ever downward pressure on margins. Whether costs are reduced through sharing of information services, through a reduction in maintenance costs, or change management costs, it all adds to the bottom line.

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