Low Latency Solutions for Electronic Trading

The Network Latency Challenge – Solved by CFN Services

High capacity circuits do not directly translate into higher performance; there are many variables to consider. Obtaining a direct private fiber connection between two points is no longer sufficient to ensure optimal data transfer speeds. There are many variables such as fiber footprint, mileage, drops and regenerators and amplifiers. There are many ways to transport the data such as wavelength, SONET, Ethernet and MPLS. There are many carriers who offer varying mileage estimates between similar points. How Do You Know What You Are Really Getting? CFN Services is the answer.

CFN Services Low Latency Global Exchange Connectivity specializes in the ability to design and implement optimized collocation and network solutions

We identify and utilize optimal spans from all available suppliers. We improve the network performance and transmission by designing the best mode of transport for your data and eliminate redundant regenerators. We are able to customize a network to provide you the best of all the technologies and help eliminate any variables.

Service Level Agreements

In the Trading World microseconds can mean missed opportunities for additional profits worth millions of dollars. You need a guarantee that you are receiving the latency you expect. How can you protect yourself? CFN Services is your partner to ensure you get what you have planned for. CFN Services is the only provider who offers a Service Level Agreement specifically for Performance Latency. Our Service Level Agreement is not a marked up number, but it is the exact latency on your service order. You should get exactly what you are paying for, not half a millisecond more. For example; if you sign a contract for 15.9 latency between two locations with CFN Services, we will provide you a written Service Level Agreement that your network must operate at the quoted latency.

Network Improvement Guarantee

The best latency today is not guaranteed to be the best in 12 months. How many times have you been tied into a long contract with a latency that is no longer a differentiate and now everyone else has caught up? We understand that issue and the concern of signing contracts based on today’s latency. That is why CFN Services guarantees to evaluate and improve our networks. As a network design firm, we are in the business of building custom network solutions for our clients. We have taken that expertise and translated it to our own CFN Electronic Trading Network solutions. When you sign with CFN Services we will on most routes commit to at least a millisecond reduction of latency within a 12-month period. We are so committed that we put the network improvement guarantee in writing from the beginning of our relationship with you. We are not here to sell circuits; we are here to be a partner to firms who require low latency and high performance networks.

World-Class NOC Employees and Facilities

You can rest assured that your network will be proactively monitored and maintained 24x7x365. Available. Reliable. Professional. Proactive. These are terms that are synonymous with CFN Services NOC Operations Center and Staff. Our expert Service Desk is central to the NOC and is staffed 24x7 with dedicated NOC professionals in a variety of roles, working together to provide a personal and hands-on approach to all your support needs. We have a team geographically dispersed to provide hands and eyes at our collocation facilities, operating 24x7. We operate a 5,800 square-foot, state-of-the-art NOC facility in Richardson, TX and a fully redundant back up facility in Sunnyvale, CA. We provide the highest possible security and availability by using federated domains, hot-swap redundancy, geographically dispersed back-up operations and four-layer security.

Custom Fiber Networks

There is an expression in the Electronic Trading World “I don’t have to be the fastest network, I just have to be faster then the other traders in my space.” If this is your motto, you need to consider who and how you are purchasing your network solutions. You want to partner with a company who is flexible enough to provide you multiple options and diversity for each of your routes. There may be routes that you deem so mission critical, you want to customize a network just for your trading entity. Partnering with CFN Services ensures you always get the lowest latency network offerings available and when needed customize proprietary solutions that will completely differentiate yourself from any others in the market.