May 06, 2009

The financial sector may be shrinking, but advanced optics are accelerating the links between some of that industry's data centers, as today's 100 Gbps news from Ciena and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Euronext indicates.In a project that will reach testing phase this summer and go live in 2010, Ciena is providing 50 km 100 Gbps links between two facilities in the metropolitan areas of both London and New York City.

These four advanced and high-traffic facilities are part of the Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) network owned by NYSE Euronext, the holding company for more than a dozen international cash equities and derivative exchanges.What motivated NYSE to add 100G optics to SFTI was the desire to attain "the fastest transactions times (and) very low latency," said Tom Mock, Ciena SVP of strategic planning.