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CFN 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

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 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 itÕs existing their exists clients. The clients with CFN now will continue to have opportunities to see their latency from Chicago Ð New York drop below 15ms in 2010

. 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

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 firmÕs 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.

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