The Challenge
A technology-driven quantitative trading firm was experiencing rapid growth across its European operations.
The organisation relies on sophisticated trading platforms, large volumes of market data, and highly connected infrastructure to support business-critical operations. As its footprint expanded, the firm’s requirements evolved beyond basic office connectivity.
Its technology leadership team needed greater visibility, control, and resilience across its data centre network, together with a clearer understanding of infrastructure costs. Maintaining reliable, high-performance connectivity between key European locations had become essential to supporting production environments and future growth.
The firm required a partner capable of delivering scalable infrastructure that could provide the performance, operational transparency, and network resilience demanded by a fast-paced financial technology environment.
The Solution
Our relationship began with the delivery of reliable office connectivity, allowing us to demonstrate our responsiveness and gain a deep understanding of the client’s operational requirements.
As the firm’s infrastructure needs matured, we collaborated closely with its technology and infrastructure teams to design and deploy a resilient, high-capacity network connecting strategic data centre locations across Europe.
The network was designed with low-latency primary paths to support performance-sensitive applications, complemented by fully diverse secondary routes to enhance resilience and operational continuity. This approach provides the firm with both the speed required for critical workloads and the redundancy necessary for business-critical infrastructure.
The solution included multiple dedicated data centre-to-data centre connections engineered to deliver:
- Low-latency primary routes supporting critical production workloads
- Geographically diverse secondary routes for resilience and business continuity
- Diverse network paths to minimise single points of failure
- High-capacity connectivity between strategic data centre locations
- Greater visibility and operational control
- Improved cost transparency
- A scalable foundation for future expansion
By aligning the network architecture with the firm’s long-term technology strategy, we created an infrastructure platform capable of supporting business-critical workloads and future growth.
The Result
Today, we are proud to serve as the client’s sole infrastructure partner across Europe.
What started as a single office connectivity deployment has evolved into a strategic partnership supporting critical infrastructure across multiple European locations.
The organisation now benefits from:
- Greater visibility and control across its network estate
- Enhanced resilience through diverse connectivity paths
- High-performance connectivity between key data centres
- Improved transparency of network costs
- Scalable infrastructure designed to support continued growth
A clear roadmap for extending network ownership to market data transport and other business-critical services
Looking ahead
As the firm continues to expand its technology capabilities and European presence, we remain committed to supporting its growth with the connectivity, expertise, and service required to power mission-critical operations.
The next phase of our partnership will focus on extending the firm’s network strategy by introducing dedicated Ethernet connectivity for market data transport. By moving market data traffic onto its own managed infrastructure, the organisation aims to gain greater visibility and control over both performance and costs, reducing reliance on third-party data hosting providers whose charges are often tied to data consumption volumes.
Building on the success of the initial deployment, this next stage will provide a more predictable and scalable foundation for managing market data across the business while further simplifying infrastructure management through a single trusted partner.