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CFN Services Revolutionizes Low Latency Networking for Electronic Trading
It is a well‐known fact, that faster is better when it comes to many things in the world. In the Electronic Trading
industry being first in the queue is not just better, it can mean millions of dollars uplift. When millions are at stake,
every aspect of the equation needs to be evaluated. CFN Services is now providing Electronic Traders a new aspect to
their low latency goal. In the race to Alpha, there is a new variable in the mix.
In the past Electronic Trading firms have had very little say in the options available for
their network choices. They were beholden to a large Carrier or an Electronic Trading
Extranet provider and neither was as latency focused that is required by this industry.
The Carrier has a network footprint that is not optimized for Electronic Trading, but
optimized for the legacy voice services; and a trading platform provider is utilizing
that legacy network to maximize their network efficiencies. When you require low
latency, a legacy voice backbone network cannot make that happen. CFN Services has
turned that model upside down by creating circuits specific for the Electronic Trading
space. By utilizing optimal spans from multiple carriers, CFN is able to create specific routes specifically focused on
latency. CFN Services is able to provide customized networks for those firms that require a higher‐level network
optimization to reach their low latency goals. CFN has also developed turnkey networks to the top Global trading
exchanges in Chicago, New York, Boston, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.
In addition, Service Level Agreement (SLA) has a new meaning thanks to CFN Services. In the Trading World
microseconds can mean missed opportunities for additional profits worth millions of dollars. A SLA should be for the
exact latency that is quoted for that circuit, not a microsecond higher. CFN Services is the only provider who offers a
SLA specifically for the true Performance Latency on the route provided to the customer. The SLA is not a marked up
number, but it is the exact latency on that was quoted in a service order. For example; a contract was signed for 15.9
latency between two locations with CFN Services, they will provide a written Service Level Agreement at that exact
latency. To date no customer has had to exercise the SLA outage clause in their agreement with CFN due to a lack of
performance of CFN Services.
When does a customer get to sign up for a product with a guarantee that the product will get better with time? Only
with CFN Services does that type of relationship exist. The best latency today is not guaranteed to be the best in 6 or
12 months. How many times have you been tied into a long contract with a latency that is no longer a differentiator
and now everyone else has caught up? CFN Services has changed expectations of their platform provider by providing
a Latency Improvement Plan
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Guarantee by guaranteeing to evaluate and improve their turnkey and custom fiber networks. CFN has demonstrated
success with this plan; dropping the latency by over 9ms for many of it’s existing their exists clients. The clients with
CFN now will continue to have opportunities to see their latency from Chicago – New York drop below 15ms in 2010
Offering Latency Service Level Guarantees, providing customized routes that are specific to the electronic trading
exchange locations and providing a partnership to continue to work in each firm’s favor by lower latency on a regular
basis; CFN Services is the Leader in the Low Latency Networking space; forever changing the expectations of this
Market for all players. In order to play in the low latency race it is important to become a client with CFN Services
while capacity is still available for their lowest latency routes.
About CFN Services
CFN Services is a managed telecom infrastructure services company providing network services for the Enterprise,
Public Sector and Carrier Markets, specializing in network design, planning, deployment, and managed services,
including, ultra‐low latency networking, local access transport and mobile backhaul optimization. CFN Services
leverages FiberSource®, a global knowledge‐based platform that identifies all available dark and lit fiber, collocation,
and lit buildings; providing the ability to quickly identify and design optimal low latency and Optimized Mobile
Backhaul solutions.
CFN Services - Optimizing the Power of your Network™ – www.cfnservices.com
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