Herndon, VA – March 6, 2011 – CFN Services, a leading provider of managed high frequency trading infrastructure services, today announced that it has added optimized delivery of North American exchange feeds on its global low latency trading infrastructure platform which dramatically reduce latency between, and within, US and Canadian trading venues. This eliminates the need for clients to invest in low latency circuits and instead utilize CFN Managed Trading Infrastructure Platform to deliver their market data cost effectively and with leading low latency. The CFN Managed Trading Infrastructure Platform seamlessly integrates the CFN Financial Ecosystem, which provides clients with a wide range of complimentary market data, news, service and application providers. The CFN Financial Ecosystem is consistent with CFN’s policy of being vendor neutral to provide the best of class solutions.

CFN Low Latency Market Data Delivery is designed to provide best of breed solutions for each client and insure reliability, performance, and a lower overall operating cost by employing:

• Optimized Infrastructure – CFN maintains an evergreen structured technology refresh program which can quickly and seamlessly react to market demands and changes
• Resiliency – CFN practice is to maintain redundant connectivity to all data sources

• Flexible configurations – as business needs and trading strategies evolve services can be quickly modified to meet current requirements

• Lower cost of ownership – Fully managed solutions to include the market data, connec-tivity and managed hosting

• Scalability – CFN can support requirements ranging from a single server in a single location to an interconnected global deployment
• Support – from a 24×7 operations center to on-demand access to a pool of interdisciplinary talent throughout a client’s entire systems life cycle, from needs determination, evaluation, implementation, deployment, enhancements, and maintenance

Sebastian Yoon, CFN Vice President of Financial Services, states, “CFN Managed Trading Infrastructure is designed to optimize the trading process while controlling expenses for our clients. For example we are able to reduce delivery latency of CME, NYSE, BATs, and ARCA market data between Chicago and New York to 14.6 milliseconds, while streamlining expenses for clients by eliminating the need to run redundant individual data circuits.”

About CFN Services
CFN Services is a managed telecom infrastructure services company providing network services for the Enterprise, Public Sector, Carrier and Wireless Markets, specializing in ultra-low latency networking, middle mile and last mile optimization and mobile back haul. CFN Services leverages FiberSource®, a global knowledge-based platform that identifies all available dark and lit fiber, collocation, towers, structures and lit buildings; providing network design, planning, deployment, and managed services offerings. For more information http://www.cfnservices.com

CENX, Inc., operator of the world’s first and most connected Carrier Ethernet exchanges, today announced MemberLink, its new Inter-Exchange Service exclusively provided by CENX Members. This innovative service, which facilitates carrier-neutral connectivity between CENX Exchanges by integrating and advertising CENX Members’ bandwidth, creates the first carrier-neutral, long distance connections between Carrier Ethernet Exchanges. CFN Services is the first CENX Member to provide this inter-Exchange function.  CFN has announced immediate availability of connections between CENX New York, Chicago, and London exchanges, along with the roadmap to interconnect all the CENX exchanges by June 2011. Read Full Release

LONDON and HERNDON, VA  6 December 2010 – Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced an agreement with CFN Services managed telecom platform company, who owns and operates the CFN Low Latency Global Financial Exchange Platform, to expand its platform at Interxion’s City of London Financial Hub. Customers colocating at Interxion’s facilities will now be able to connect to a wide range of Global markets from a single location through CFN’s shared infrastructure. Read More

CFN Services, a managed infrastructure services company providing ultra-low latency networking, network design, and managed services, has announced that it has selected Essex Radez as its North American market data partner.

As vendor-of-record for delivery of all North American exchange feeds through its Velocitick subsidiary, Essex Radez offers clients the ability to co-locate any number of servers at any of its five data centers: Equinix Secaucus, Savvis Weehawken, NASDAQ Carteret, Equinix Chicago, and CBOE Chicago. Additionally, through its private network, the firm provides execution connectivity to all major trading venues.  Read More

Wireless Infrastructure – CFN Services Bullish on Investing For Mobile Backhaul

At CFN Services, we were looking to expand the reach and services offered on our High Performance Low Latency Global Exchange Infrastructure. We were looking for a data center that would allow us to help market data providers deliver low latency news feeds to their financial services clients.

A component of the CFN High Performance Global Exchange is the ability for market data providers to have a single source solution for low latency global delivery of their news feeds.  Specifically, this data center selection process was the expansion of the CFN High Performance Low Latency Global Exchange Infrastructure initiative.  Read full story

CFN Services is announcing an innovative incubator program called Trading Jumpstart, providing trading firms the tools, infrastructure and resources they require to Jumpstart their trading practice. This program is ideal for either newly started or recently spun-off trading firms; for mature trading firms looking to enter new markets. Current trading firms that need an incubation environment to test new markets or asset classes can also benefit from this program. Read Full Document Here

Twenty-four Fairfax County companies are on Inc. magazine’s 2010 list of the 500 fastest-growing businesses in the United States. That is up from 16 in 2009. Fairfax has more firms on the 2010 list than any other county in the nation, more than any city except New York, and more than all but five states.

Also, Fairfax County firms represent half of the 47 companies on the 2010 list from the Washington area. The $468 million in annual revenue reported by the Fairfax County firms is 59 percent of the revenue reported by Washington-area firms on the Inc. 500 list.

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Denver, CO – August 10, 2010 – National data center and peering provider CoreSite announces today that two

of the top economic news service providers have deployed at the company’s Washington, DC data center at 1275 K Street. The DC data center and colocation facility is located approximately one mile from the United States Department of Labor, Departme

nt of Commerce and Department of The Treasury. Need to Know News and Rapidata deliver low latency economic news to high-frequency trading firms, investment banks, and other entities with a vested interest in receiving market data as quickly as possible. With critical, market-moving data being released directly from the U.S. Departments of Labor, Commerce and Treasury, these companies identified CoreSite as the best data center in the closest proximity. Read More

Annual Event Puts the Spotlight on the Region’s “Hot” Technology Companies

HERNDON, Va., June 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) announced today the winners of the 9th Annual NVTC Hot Ticket Awards, honoring the region’s best and brightest entrepreneurial technology companies.  More than 550 members of the Northern Virginia technology community came out to celebrate the nominated companies, poolside at the home of NVTC’s President & CEO Bobbie Kilberg.

During the event, Kilberg announced NVTC’s recent commitment to serve only Virginia wines at all its events to promote Virginia’s wine industry as a creator of jobs and revenue in the Commonwealth.  The 2010 Hot Ticket Awards was NVTC’s first event at which this new policy was implemented, and NVTC intends to carry it forward to its TechCelebration banquet in the Fall, its CFO Awards next Spring, and all its other evening gatherings.  Speaking to the Hot Tickets crowd, Kilberg issued a friendly challenge to the other trade and membership associations in Virginia to join NVTC in this initiative.

The awards program was emceed by NVTC Hot Ticket Awards Committee Co-Chairs Jennifer Trax of “Smoking Hot Sponsor” Argy Wiltse & Robinson and Mark Spoto of “Smoking Hot Sponsor” Cooley.  The judges for the 2010 Hot Ticket Awards included: Frank Bonsall III, New Markets Venture Partners; Mary Dridi; Jeremy King, Benchmark Executive Search; Edwin Miller, (i)SAGE; Don Rainey, Grotech Capital; and Greg Van Beuren, BB&T Capital Markets/Windsor Group.

Nominations were gathered for seven categories: Hottest Social Buzz, Hottest Management Team, Hottest Bootstrap, Hottest Exit, Hottest Venture Capital Deal, Hottest Emerging Government Contractor, and Hottest International Company. The finalists and winners in each category are as follows:

Hottest Bootstrap (sponsored by PNC Bank)

• CFN Services, Inc.
• CustomInk.com **Winner**
• PointAbout
• ODIN Technologies

The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) is the membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia. As the largest technology council in the nation, NVTC serves about 1,000 companies from all sectors of the technology industry, as well as service providers, universities, foreign embassies, non-profit organizations and governmental agencies. Through its member companies, NVTC represents about 200,000 employees in the region. NVTC is recognized as the nation’s leader in providing its technology community with networking and educational events; specialized services and benefits; public policy advocacy; branding of its region as a major global technology center; initiatives in targeted business sectors and in the international, entrepreneurship, workforce and education arenas; the Equal Footing Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity that serves local area youth; and The Entrepreneur Center @NVTC which mentors new technology entrepreneurs. Visit NVTC at www.nvtc.org.