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out of ten buying decisions in the FX infrastructure market place are already based on latency.
“Customers want to see proven test results before they make a buying decision,” he says. “Te shortest path and the lowest latency we offer is partly architectural due to the fibre assets we have in the ground. Second to that is that customers want to migrate to the fastest provider they can over the course of a long-term relationship. Our ever-green guarantees mean that we continually optimise our network, allowing our customers to focus on their trading strategies whilst knowing their trading platforms are built on market leading ultra-low latency connectivity.”
He says that the appetite of clients can be difficult to gauge, because although customers will say they are very latency sensitive there are limits to their requirements, which are most noticeable as investment carriers make their networks faster and faster. When prices go up and the carrier tries to get a return on its investment, some traders will decide that they can live with the standard product.
Teir needs also change based on changing strategies; from trading all of eastern Europe, a firm might decide to focus purely on the destinations where they’re getting the best results.
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“Key drivers for growth have resulted from financial exchanges optimising their systems and infrastructure,” he says. “For example we saw a large spike in requirements when a major Financial Exchange moved from a 1G to a 10G port interface. Due to ownership of the underlying fibre infrastructure, we were able to upgrade our customers to 10Gb capacity and therefore allow them benefit from the latency saving on reduced serialisation delay. Additionally geographic relocation of the financial exchanges also drives connectivity requirements to those sites.”
Hooking up
Te traditional method of connecting to the relatively fragmented FX markets is to use an extranet, typically provided by firms like BT, TNS, COLT or Atrium Network.
“Extranet is not necessarily high speed, it will get you connected to all of the various global platforms that you need to connect to,” says Rutger ter Hoeven at data centre supplier Interxion. “It is an MPLS network which is essentially a network that connects all the different venues to all of the platforms but there is no clear indication of how fast the packet will go from A to B hence the benefit of a point to point circuit where
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