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What is Dim Fiber?
Optical fiber only partially lit in a fiber optic transmission system (FOTS) employing wavelength division multiplexing (WDM).WDM technology can support a considerable number of wavelengths running simultaneously over a single optical fiber within a cable comprising perhaps a great number of fibers. A dim fiber is one over which not all available wavelengths have been lit and which, therefore, has excess capacity.

Why Dim Fiber?

A dim Fiber customer gets assigned a wavelength in a fiber span that provides flexibility and performance similar to dark fiber with the following benefits:

• Use of fiber span not limited to a specific bandwidth, just a specific wavelength, thus the customer has more control.
• Reduced equipment on the circuit reducing potential outages.
• Reduced equipment on the circuit reducing processing latency.
• Dark Fiber performance at a lower cost.
• Dark Fiber performance with a variety of contract terms closer to customer experience with lit services.

Why CFN Services Dim Fiber Solutions?

• With CFN Services as your partner on your dim fiber plans – CFN will manage and monitor the health of the fiber span via other circuits running on the same fiber span.

• CFN takes away the hassle and worry of managing an Outside Plant Network such as relocations, construction, outages, etc. by managing the full solution so as a customer you get only the benefit of dim without the down side.

• For longer spans, CFN can provide mid-span regeneration reducing equipment, new collocations and operational cost and complexity for the customer.

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February 23, 2010; Herndon, VA (PRWeb) CFN Services, the Low Latency and Infrastructure Optimization Leader, is pleased to announce the completion of extreme low latency metro networking solutions optimized specifically for high frequency trading throughout the New York/New Jersey, Toronto and London financial markets.   In light of market fragmentation and the introduction of new ATS and dark pool options; CFN expands their suite of long-haul optimized solutions for global electronic trading firms by delivering the same advantages of integrated optical connectivity throughout full metropolitan areas. The flexibility inherent in CFN’s managed network enables firms to adapt quickly to changes as execution venues and matching engines move and the landscape continues to evolve.   Firms can now choose either to proximity host at a new venue collocation facility, or central proximity host and take advantage of the robust metro connectivity solutions offered by CFN to maintain the lowest latency without incurring major network conversions involved in data center moves. Read More

Available Now: 2010 Trading Beyond the Horizon

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In 2010, financial markets participants will continue to expand their trading activities as liquidity increasingly becomes fragmented, seeking alpha in new markets, best execution in dark pools, arbitrage opportunities across the order book and by implementing high frequency and complex, multi-leg, cross asset class strategies.

The successful operations – whether they be the proprietary desks of traditional broker/dealers, specialist high frequency and algorithmic traders, or quantitative hedge funds –  will leverage a trading infrastructure that combines high performance analytical, algorithmic and order routing platforms with the lowest latency access to multiple, geographically dispersed execution venues.

Multi-market trading – leveraging a fragmented market landscape – introduces new challenges, even for trading firms that have mastered the complexities of low-latency execution using approaches such as co-location and proximity.  Those mechanisms, while still relevant, provide a less complete solution when trading across markets that are geographically dispersed.

New entrants into the market for connectivity and proximity services include organizations that are themselves market participants, such as sell-side firms offering sponsored access and DMA, and liquidity venues, which are now providing global order routing networks, in some cases channelling order flow to their competitors.

Those service providers join traditional players including telcos, hosting companies and value-added extranet vendors, who often bundle trading applications with connectivity.

The bottom line: For multi-market trading, optimization of long-haul and metro communications links, combined with smart use of co-location, is an imperative for achieving the lowest latency, and this requires an understanding of connectivity offerings at a deep, granular level.

This  industry briefing explains the drivers for fragmentation and multi-market trading, the evolving landscape of market access, and explores connectivity approaches to minimize latency.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. securities regulators are investigating ways to bring light to so-called dark pools, automated trading systems that do not display quotes publicly, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday.

Dark pools, where orders are anonymously matched so that traders do not alert the wider market to their intentions, have triggered concerns that stock pricing may not be transparent and that a privileged few are benefiting. More

Telehouse America is seeking to leverage some of its data center real estate to gain a piece of the growing market for colocation space to support high-frequency trading. The company said today that it has colo space and power available in its New York data center facilities at 25 Broadway and 7 Teleport in Staten Island for clients seeking low-latency connectivity.

Wall Street Technology Association (WSTA) 2010 Resource Center is live. The WSTA Resource Guide lists companies who offer a broad range of products and services for the financial and frequency trading technology industry by category.  http://preview.tinyurl.com/wsta-directory

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