Judy Misbin-May

CFN FAST Platform (Financial Application Services Trading Platform) provided the value to this firm that they required, yet the flexibility and control they insisted on. Through the module approach offered by CFN Services, the trading firm was able to pick and choose the areas they wanted to keep in house and areas they wanted to outsource. They did not need to question their buying decisions as CFN is host/carrier neutral picking the best solution for each specific client.

By now there's no doubt about it: mobile operators need to get their backhaul networks in condition to meet the burgeoning market for anytime, anywhere data access. Backhaul, once considered the humdrum side of an operator's network, has become the topic du jour now that the mobile phone customershave shifted to smartphones and are taking advantage of data-hungry services in a big way. Earlier this month, AT&T reported that its wireless data traffic has grown more than 5,000 percent over the pas

In 2010, financial markets participants will continue to expand their trading activities as liquidity increasingly becomes fragmented, seeking alpha in new markets, best execution in dark pools, arbitrage opportunities across the order book and by implementing high frequency and complex, multi-leg, cross asset class strategies. The successful operations – whether they be the proprietary desks of traditional broker/dealers, specialist high frequency and algorithmic traders, or quantitative hedge

What, how and why would you want to use dim fiber

When working with a top trading firm whose main goal was to drive the lowest latency circuit they could between two locations they came to CFN Services and requested pricing for dark fiber strands. After a thorough evaluation of both dark fiber and lit circuit provider options to connect various "A" and "Z" address pairs, it became apparent that Dark Fiber was not always the ideal scenario. In many of the examples the shortest available dark fiber path would have higher latency than the lit circ

It is one thing to offer a Latency Improvement Plan. But it is another to demonstrate success. CFN Services broke new ground in the networking space by offering a Latency Improvement Plan. The best latency today is not always the leader in 12 months. With that in mind, CFN Services shook up the industry by stating that they would guarantee to continue to improve and refresh their circuits improving latency and performance. The Chicago - NY/NJ Route is a great example of CFN's success on this cla

Where milliseconds and microseconds make a difference to the success of a trade strategy, Proximity Hosting seems like the ideal solutions, host your server at the same location as the exchange. While a firm may be trading a particular asset class and the majority of trades may be directed toward a single venue, the volumes and price-points on related exchanges play critical roles in execution decisions.