Lexent provides custom fiber-optic network paths in NY City area suited for algorithmic, high-frequency trading apps...
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Lexent provides custom network paths
September 25, 2009 | Lightwave
Lexent Metro Connect, a provider of dark-fiber networks in the New York metropolitan area, offers custom, build-to-suit, carrier-neutral networks to provide financial companies, enterprise businesses, and carriers the opportunity to construct the shortest distance between two network points, reducing latency and enhancing reliability. [...] Lexent designs its offerings by analyzing and planning custom paths to shorten network distance, which the company says ensures the lowest-latency dark-fiber routes, with thousands of fiber miles to choose from. Lexent says shaving a few milliseconds off a dark fiber route can mean the difference between thousands of dollars on each transaction.
Cont.: lightwaveonline.com
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[fac: truth be told, it wouldn't surprise me if some point-to-point (line-of-sight) microwave shots are faster, given fiber's nominal velocity of propagation and the usual, circuitous and often hierarchically-multi-tiered hops, that most fiber paths take (since established RoW's seldom align with the flight of a crow), even in purpose-built applications ... ]
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