Content about Connectivity, Co-Lo and Proximity

ColoGuard, a subsidiary of GalaxyVisions, and a leading provider of colocation services in the New York metropolitan area, announced today that its customers now have access to Sidera Networks’ low-latency, scalable and reliable connections at this facility.

CFN Services, the leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, today announced the availability of ultra-low-latency market data delivery and trade execution services to the top equities exchanges in New York and New Jersey. CFN now provides the fastest available delivery of CME market data and order execution via the Alpha Platform eliminating the need for trading firms to purchase stand-alone low-latency circuits.

CFN Services, the leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, announced today that Selerity, a provider of real-time event data solutions for the financial services industry has selected CFN Services’ Alpha Platform to extend low-latency access to its event data worldwide. Electronic traders can now access Selerity’s low-latency event data locally without the use of long-distance telecommunications infrastructure in all major global financial centers.

IRESS, Canada’s leading trading access vendor and supplier of sophisticated trading solutions, and TMX Datalinx, TMX Group’s information services division, today announced that IRESS has chosen TMX Atrium as its Canadian network connectivity provider as part of the IRESS Optical Network (ION).

Frontline Technologies ("Frontline" or the "Company"), a leading provider of innovative technology and trading services, announced a long term agreement with TMX Group to operate in its co-location facility. Frontline has selected the TMX Group data centre to provide Frontline clients the ability to optimize trading opportunities, achieve faster execution and maximize trading profits through low-latency trading and data access from within the TMX Group data centre.

Panel: Low-Latency Connectivity – From Start to Finish

Connecting trading systems to market centres is generally the biggest contributor to latency, as data traverses local data fabrics and messaging middleware within trading firms and co-lo centres, and both metro and long-haul fibre networks.

This panel explored recent technology developments and futures for each segment of the electronic trading connectivity chain - wide area networks and fibre connects, co-location, local networks, and network interfaces, providing delegates with essential insight to guide their own strategic directions and deployments.

* Pete Harris, Publisher & Editor, Low-Latency.com (Moderator)
* Michael Cooper, Client Technology Officer – Radianz, BT Global Banking and Financial Markets
* John Taylor, CTO, Gnodal
* Tim King, Director of Product Management, Level3 Communications
* David Riddoch, Chief Software Architect, Solarflare Communications
* Michael Ritter, Vice President, Technical Marketing, ADVA Optical Networking

First Communications, a leading regional fiber-based provider of critical data and voice communications, continues to expand lit services along its 5,400-mile fiber route network, which spans the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic United States and offers an industry-leading, low-latency path to Toronto.

Koscom, a leading financial IT solution provider and KVH Co. Ltd., Japan's leading information delivery platform providing integrated cloud and network solutions announced today that they have signed an agreement on a strategic alliance to jointly provide IT solutions to the global financial community. Under the agreement, the two companies will offer a wide range of IT solutions including network and data center services for high-speed electronic trading, Disaster Recovery (DR), and Business Continuity Plan (BCP) at new Koscom Pusan data center for global and local customers in Korea and Japan as well as other key financial centers in Asia, the United States, and Europe.

BSO Network Solutions, the specialist low latency provider for global solutions and infrastructure, has again improved the latency on their land cable system to deliver the lowest latency and highest availability network between London & Hong Kong. The record-breaking speed allows high frequency traders and professional service specialists to gain a competitive advantage, quickly sending and receiving large volumes of data from Europe to Asia.

Thomson Reuters has filled a gap in the senior ranks of its Enterprise Solutions unit, with the appointment of Deutsche Bank's Ralf Roth to the role of global head of Elektron Transactions and Strategy. Elektron is the company's managed hosting and co-location offering, providing low-latency market data, risk management, analytics and transactional services.

Alcatel-Lucent and P&TLuxembourg, the nation’s leading telecommunications service provider, have launched one of the fastest data networks in Europe. The two companies established a superfast 100G (gigabit per second) IP connection between Frankfurt and Luxembourg, which provides very high-bandwidth, low latency, secure and reliable data services to the financial sector, European institutions and organizations as well as to all businesses and consumers throughout the country.