Inside Market Data, an Incisive Media Publication, has named CFN Services, a finalist for the 2011 Inside Market Data – Best Data Networking and Infrastructure Provider. Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards recognize industry excellence with market data, reference data and enterprise data management. CFN Services is joined by 6 other firms in this category including; NYSE Technologies , Thomson Reuters, and Equinix.

“We are pleased to be included among the leading companies in this category,” said Mark Casey, President and CEO of CFN Services, “this recognition is validation of our commitment to our clients, and our optimized delivery of their market data and trading applications worldwide.”

Judges for this category include representatives from Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase and HSBC among the 12-member panel. The awards are presented annually to recognize achievement in market and reference data, as well as enterprise data management. The winner of the 2011 award will be announced in New York on May 24, 2011.

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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.”

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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

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Low latency connectivity has enjoyed a resurgence of interest as high-performance trading architectures become a reality. Early interest in the low-latency ‘vision’ may have been interrupted by the global financial crisis, but no matter: low latency is back, and providing the catalyst for the explosion in high frequency trading.

As liquidity continues to fragment – in the US and globally – electronic trading operations are demanding connectivity to a broader array of execution venues. As well as traditional exchanges, traders today need access to alternative trading systems, including electronic communications networks, dark pools and multilateral trading facilities (MTFs). Securing and maintaining a robust, high-performance connectivity solution is key to providing comprehensive market access Download Now