HERNDON, VA–(Marketwire – May 17, 2010) –  CFN Services today announced the deployment of Cyan’s Z-Series packet-optical transport platforms providing extreme low latency networking solutions for the Low Latency Global Exchange infrastructure expanding their presence in the Frankfurt and London financial markets. As data center outsourcing and managed networks trends continue and cloud-based applications growth drives compounding traffic, data center operators and managed network providers such as CFN Services require new solutions for scaling networks with carrier grade, low latency networks. Along with market leading modularity and scalability, the Cyan Z-Series platforms deliver powerful low latency solutions and compelling economics for data center deployments in the US and Europe.

“We selected the Cyan Z33 to meet our growing demands for ultra low latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet transport between key financial markets in Europe,” said Wil Tirado, VP of Network Engineering of CFN Services. “After evaluating numerous vendor solutions we found the Z33 to offer the best combination of low latency performance our customers and applications demand, with the scale and economics to meet the needs of our business.” CFN Services provides managed network and collocation optimization infrastructure solutions to market leading enterprise businesses, financial institutions and cloud-based application service providers. “We’ve seen our traffic capacity demands grow 300 percent over the past two years,” added Tirado. “We need data center and connectivity solutions that allow us to scale while maintaining or improving applications performance. Cyan’s combination of high performance Ethernet, with plug-in module DWDM expansion to deliver multiple 10 GbE transports per fiber allows us to scale capacity without incurring the recurring network cost of multiple single service fibers.” Read More

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