Accredited Connectivity Partners

Colt strives to transform the way the world works through the power of connectivity. The Colt IQ Network connects 900+ data centres across Europe, Asia and North America’s largest business hubs, with over 29,000 on net buildings and growing.

The Colt IQ Network for financial markets provides fast and secure connectivity between all the major financial trading centres, liquidity hubs and exchanges worldwide. It consists of over 50 unique low-latency routes, including our ultra-low latency routes connecting Europe and Asia. Colt connects more than 80 financial exchanges on four continents, 13 European central banks and an ecosystem of 10.000+ market participants through Colt PrizmNet, its financial extranet.

In addition to market access connectivity, Colt also offers Colocation Hosting and hardware-related services, for those clients who want their low-latency trading systems to be located in the same Data Centre as a Trading Venue, such as the LSE.

Colt is a recognised innovator and pioneer in Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV).

Privately owned, Colt is one of the most financially sound companies in its industry and able to provide the best customer experience at a competitive price.

For more information, please visit Colt Capital Markets.

Contacts:

Nadine Shrourou
Email : Nadine.Shrourou@colt.net

Crown Castle (NYSE:CCI) is the largest provider of shared network infrastructure in the United States. With over 80,000 route miles of fiber in 100+ markets across the country, Crown Castle is the last owner of the fiber network and is expert at designing and deploying custom private fiber networks for financial institutions, trading firms and FinTech companies as well as other industry segments and federal, state and local government. Dark Fiber, Optical Wavelengths, Ethernet Transport headline our product offerings in addition to Dedicated Internet Access and Cloud Connectivity to AWS, Azure, Google and multiple other public cloud providers. All products and services are delivered end-to-end on Crown Castle owned fiber. Crown Castle fields local engineering and operations, client services and sales teams in all markets where we own fiber networks and operates four geographically dispersed Network Operations Centers – staffed by Crown Castle employees. Additional information available at Crown Castle.

Contacts:

John Thompson
Director Sales
Tel (Work): +19782689339
Email: John.Thompson@crowncastle.com

euNetworks is a Western European bandwidth infrastructure company, owning and operating 17 fibre based metropolitan networks connected with a high capacity intercity backbone covering 53 cities in 17 countries.

The company delivers scalable, fibre based products and solutions to a customer base that is at the centre of technology transformation. Our customers require low latency, fibre based data centre to data centre connectivity, both within the key cities in Europe and between these cities, supporting both their bandwidth growth and the performance requirements that their applications demand.

Our product set of Fibre, Wavelengths and Ethernet are bundled to deliver bandwidth solutions for our customers, from euTrade – our dedicated ultra low latency solution, to Cloud Connect, DC Connect & Private Connect.

Our euTrade solution is an ultra low latency, market leading optical transmission service. We specialise in designing, engineering and building ultra low latency connectivity networks for the financial services community, connecting into European Liquidity Venues and Exchanges.

euNetworks has a commitment to on-going network investments, turning-up capacity quickly and delivering market leading latencies for direct exchange-exchange connectivity.

Additional information can be found at: euNetworks / euNetworks services and solutions | euTrade

Contacts:

Andy Grant
Sales Director
Mobile: +44 7747 693521
Email: andy.grant@eunetworks.com

EXA Infrastructure is one of the largest dedicated digital infrastructure platforms connecting Europe and North America and owns 125,000 kilometres of fibre network across 34 countries. EXA’s network connects 300 cities and offers 13 Tier 3-equivalent data centres, with sub-sea routes that include three transatlantic cables, one of the lowest latency links between Europe and North America – Express offering a latency of 59mS RTD between London and New York. EXA is wholly owned by I Squared Capital.

Our financial markets solutions include some of the lowest latency paths into key trading venues across our global network, for more information visit: Exa Infrastructure

Contacts:

Huw Morgan
Account Director
Mobile: +44 7753 102279
Email: huw.morgan@exainfra.net
Website: Exa Infrastructure

Level 3 owns and operates a carrier-grade, highly connected fibre network, providing the access, speed, redundancy, and security required to meet the burgeoning demands of the financial services industry. Every day, trillions of transactions and huge volumes of market data over the Level 3® Network are transported directly into the heart of the world’s leading financial centres, exchanges, MTFs, ATSs and ECNs.

Level 3 own and operate key transatlantic AC1 and AC2 sub-sea systems to support fast business-critical connections between New York and London. Other key financial centres, including, Chicago, New York/New Jersey, Washington DC, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris, Stockholm, Zurich, Johannesburg and Dubai are within a few milliseconds reach.

In total, Level 3 have over 200,000 route miles of fibre network globally, connecting 60+ countries to approximately 350 Multi tenanted datacentres, providing scale and proximity to the financial community.

Contacts:

Updated contact details TBC – In the meantime please contact connectivity@lseg.com for contact information, if required.