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participants to scale their business up or down. We provide a service based on what the customer is likely to need, which runs end-to-end as it’s a fully managed infrastructure.” For fully managed read “No Single Point of Failure”. (Te service offered by BT provides 100% uptime, but in reality it’s based on 99.99% SLAs from end to end).


He explains: “It’s fully managed from end-to-end and fully mission critical, allowing failover from one router to the other. Tere’s no single point of failure with two routers and two lines. And, the two lines that go into the venues or the buy-/sell-sides are either typically Colt or Verizon, who are two different last mile providers.”


Looking at steps communication system providers are taking to ensure they offer minimal carrier delays and the provision of secure business continuity services, Exponential-e’s Cooper says: “If one considers us as a communications system provider, then in the area of offering minimal carrier delays we’re looking at hardware all the time, at fibre routes becoming available and constantly upgrading wherever possible to ensure that we keep pace with technology.”


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“Customers not only want control over what route they are on, but the equipment at the end of it to ensure that every possible millisecond and microsecond can be squeezed out of the circuit.”


Availability


When considering how firms can take advantage of flexible network architectures to ensure readily- scalable bandwidth is always available, Schwartz argues “the trick is good network monitoring and good management.” Providers need to enable users to handle volume spikes by having sufficient headroom (capacity) in place well before surges happen.


Schwartz adds: “One needs to think about what is being scaled for. TNS has that mindset that we have to scale for the customer from the peak perspective. We always undertake network planning and are constantly looking at the future. And, we invest in monitoring tools that customers can utilise themselves.” Ultimately that is what their customers pay TNS and other vendors for - keeping them pro-actively notified of bandwidth needs.


Gibbs at BT adds: “Te way we go about things is that we put in an infrastructure that allows market


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On timescales involved in deploying a re-engineered or transferred infrastructure, Schwartz says: “We’ve had the experience of a fairly big FX trading firm in the UK moving from another network over to TNS. While there was a significant process involved, fortunately most of the trading partners were already on our network and the amount of overlap was relatively minimal.” Timescales do generally depend, but once an institution makes a decision then providers can turn the service on fairly quickly and usually within days.


Conclusion


While the options may be varied in terms of deploying the right service and vendor to assist with optimising and leveraging flexible network architectures for high speed FX, the good news for users is that a clutch of effective providers are out there in the marketplace.


With many such vendors committed to global financial trading networks, they are also innovating with new services to cater for the ongoing needs of algorithmic and HFT players. It’s not entirely a minefield, but pitching the right questions to your network provider and working with them can help to ensure robust latency and bandwidth, high service quality and diversity.


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