BM&FBovespa does it again.  Operating one of Brazil’s biggest securities exchange, gained the most in a year in Sao Paulo trading after JPMorgan Chase & Co. said the stock price doesn’t reflect the company’s growth prospects. With a 7.24% rise on March 10.  This follows their announcement of going over 70,000 in January 2010. Not to mention another landmark as the number of single stock option contracts traded on its derivatives section in March exceeded that traded on any of the largest US options exchanges, according to data from the World Federation of Exchanges. The Brazilian bourse traded 87.5m that month, compared with 79.3m at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, 66.6m at the International Securities Exchange, and 58.9m at Nasdaq OMX PHLX.

All of this makes BM&FBovespa an exchange to not be ignored. In this year of asset and geographical diversification in trading strategies, BM&FBovespa is expected to see unusually higher growth of volume.

CFN Services is proud to be part of this growth, by providing lowest latency connectivity from all the major trading venues back to Sao Paulo. CFN Services, is the only provider to offer the Latency Improvement Plan. When you sign your contract with CFN you know the latency you will receive today and are committed to improve that latency during the duration of the contract – ensuring you are still the lowest latency in the future.

For lowest latency connections, capacity is limited – get in the queue now to reserve not just your low latency to Sao Paulo for today, but ensure you are part of the next network improvement plan

Contact us now:  lowlatency@cfnservices.com    703-788-6633

CFN Services is a proud sponsor and participant of the  The Mankoff 2nd Annual Ultra Low Latency Panel Event: Trading Opportunities in FX and Other Asset Classes: High Frequency Trading, Algorithms & Best Execution.

We are pleased to announce that Sebastian Yoon, VP CFN Services Financial Services Practice, will be showcased on the panel discussion entitled: Build, Buy and Beyond: Selecting and Implementing the Best Tools to Achieve a Successful Multi-Asset Strategy in Trading

When: March 23, 2011 – 5:45pm – 9:00pm

Where: Grange Holborn Hotel
50:60 Southampton Row
London WC1B 4AR
T: 020 7242 1800

Overview:

Exchange consolidation. Co-location issues. Rate of connectivity and the search for ever lower latency. This environment the trader finds himself in, with the need for speed driving the latest innovations, and the government engaged in push-back, is challenging and one ripe for discussion. The application of algorithms in the high frequency space has been addressed in the equity market but what’s the next area of growth? What developments are occurring in FX, Options, Futures, Commodities and the other asset classes?

Agenda:

5:45 pm Registration

6:15 pm Panel I: Winning the Speed Game While Remaining Compliant: Regulations, Changes in the Markets and its Impact on Trading Across Asset Classes

7:00 pm Panel II: Build, Buy and Beyond: Selecting and Implementing the Best Tools to Achieve a Successful Multi Asset Strategy in Trading

Click here to Register Now

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

Recently, there has been a lot of information distributed in the industry regarding latency in optical transport systems. This white paper takes an objective look at what really causes latency in transport systems and what to look for in a transport system designed for low latency. Download Now

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

High frequency trading, at its core is a technical undertaking. Each firm entering this space must confront a series of tough questions. CFN Services, offers an Ultra-Low Latency Global Exchange Platform that allows you to utilize the services that you need to outsource, while still maintaining control of your full network and ecosystem infrastructure. For proximity hosting, connectivity, hardware, front-line trading software, post-trade processes and research tools, CFN can offer you as little or as much support and services as you require. Click here for a Technical Infrastructure Outline of the pieces to consider when setting up your high frequency trading platform. If you would like more information on how CFN Services can support your needs contact us today

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

Keeping latency in check is critical for quality of service (QoS) of demanding Ethernet wireless backhaul, wholesale and business services. Given that Ethernet bandwidth is considered relatively ‘inexpensive’, some providers increase throughput to reduce latency and keep performance within strict SLA tolerances. However, the relationship between bandwidth and latency is anything but simple in packet-based networks, where increasing throughput can sometimes have no effect on delay, or even increase it under certain conditions. This paper explores the key sources of delay, and techniques to optimize latency without consuming excess bandwidth. These guidelines allow providers to use their network resources as efficiently as possible, while assuring the QoS of critical, real-time services. Download Full White Paper Here

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.

Contact CFN Services to see if Dim Fiber is the solution for you: Contact CFN Now

San Mateo, CA, June 28, 2010 – CFN Services, a world-class low latency managed network infrastructure provider, has been named a winner of the Red Herring 100 North America awards for 2010. The award, whose past winners include Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter and Salesforce.com, is given to companies demonstrating the ability to disrupt an industry or create an entirely new industry via an innovative business model. The Red Herring 100 North America has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising new and emerging companies. redherring_2010_release