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