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

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.
• Dim Fiber allows wireless operators to take advantage of the owners economics and cost efficiencies of a managed backhaul solution, which provides lowest per unit cost as the backhaul traffic increases
• 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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THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENT
When financial services and other firms around the world rely on your global infrastructure to transact business, you need to ensure low latency and highest reliability possible. That’s one of the key reasons CFN Services chose Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers for colocation. The provider of network services wanted a partner that enabled it to continue delivering premium services.
THE SOLUTION
CFN evaluated a variety of data center providers, ultimately choosing Equinix. “It’s important that we partner with one of the largest colocation providers to get closer to our growing base of electronic trading customers. Moreover, Equinix’s quality of service, reliability, and professionalism are renowned,” explains Wil Tirado, vice president of Engineering for CFN.
Equinix’s focus on specific vertical markets was also key because it aligns with CFN’s
go-to-market approach. “Equinix’s knowledge of the needs of different industries allows
us to leverage relevant product offerings in those spaces,” continues Tirado.
WHY EQUINIX
Maintaining carrier neutrality
CFN develops customized network solutions that optimize connections to multiple exchanges and trading venues. To ensure optimized connections along with diversity offerings, CFN’s Low Latency Global Exchange Infrastructure spans multiple providers. As a carrier-neutral network integrator, CFN sought a partner with the same approach.
“A network neutral and carrier rich data center enables us to be responsive to
our customers’ requirements. Equinix allows us to ensure we continue providing our customers with the most optimized network solutions,” says Tirado.
CFN serves customers in the enterprise, public sector, and carrier markets, including financial traders that require very high network performance. The electronic trading community requires high speed connectivity to reduce risk and stay competitive. These financial customers gain significant benefits from CFN’s commitment to continually optimize its network as part of its Low Latency Improvement Plan. In addition to using FiberSource®, its proprietary nationwide infrastructure knowledge and relationship base of nearly 250,000 route miles of fiber and 550 metro networks, CFN leverages all means necessary to decrease latency and insure diversity on its routes.

“It’s unique to find a great combination of network availability from multiple carriers colocated with a dense community of financial market participants. Equinix is a key component of our ever-growing global low-latency infrastructure.”
Wil Tirado, Vice President of Engineering, CFN Services. Download Full Case Study

CFN Services Utilizes Equinix to Meet Increased Demand for Optimized Network Performance
Equinix providing colocation in United States, Canada  and Europe to optimize network performance for CFN Services customers

FOSTER CITY, CA and London, United Kingdom — June 22, 2010 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that CFN Services, a managed telecom infrastructure services company, is now connected to Equinix’s International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers in Chicago, Frankfurt, London, New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle and Toronto as part of the CFN Services global low latency network. By leveraging Equinix’s global data center footprint and services, CFN Services is able to offer its customers ultra low latency, diverse routes for protected services, and optimized network routes in relation to all of the major global financial exchanges. Download Full Release

These days trading floors may have disappeared, but the prize still goes to the swift and nimble in the market. And as electronic trading has taken hold, firms with the fastest network and performance across all of the links in the trading chain will be at the head of the queue, able to react speedily to changing market conditions. Once measured in seconds, latency is now calculated in microseconds, and as markets continue to be volatile, speed of thought and execution remain paramount for many firms., Vijay Kedia Flextrade Systems – Read More

Fiber‐optic communication is defined as the method of transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of light through an optical fiber. The definition of zero network latency is a network transporting their information at the speed of light. This being said, the further the light has to travel, the higher the latency. Fiber networks normally do not follow a direct line between any who two locations. Instead they follow geographic contours that relate to roads or railroad tracks to name a few.  It is important to understand the exact route that your circuit will follow so that you can eliminate any wasted distance.

In the environment, there are two main options for how you can extend the transmission of light through the fiber; optical amplifiers and regenerators.   Amplifiers and Regenerators are placed along the fiber optic route to help ensure that the signal is able to travel the full distance, while keeping its’ strength and information. There is only one main difference between the two and that is that an amplifier adds light to the existing wavelength to help increase the strength of the signal without having to add more latency, whereas a regenerator will add a substantial amount of latency to add to the strength of the wavelength. Both of these require both a lit and dark fiber solution. A dark fiber is a term that is used to describe fiber optic strands that are not being used or has no equipment being used on the ends of the fiber. Its contrast is called a ‘lit’ fiber, meaning that it is an active fiber optic cable. Unfortunately, due to so few telecom companies still offering dark fiber, the available dark fiber route may be much longer then an alternative lit circuit oath from another provider.

If you want to read more on this topic, take a look at our case study.

Telecom networks and the LAN’s/WAN’s connected to them are extremely complex, so one should expect performance variances among different networks and implementations. The difference is largely based on the specifics of the network in question. However, an understanding of some of the drivers of latency can paint a useful picture to evaluate specific network performance.

Latency in Telecom Networks

The key to the wireless vendor success will be their mobile backhaul strategy, leveraging the ability to get affordable fiber to wireless sites. To support this effort CFN Services, the leader in mobile backhaul planning and optimization, introduces FiberSource® Access™; monthly access to the most powerful mobile backhaul optimization knowledge based tool. More