NY Metropolitan Area-Based Financial Services Powerhouse Secures Lower Latency, Higher Capacity Communications for Less with Optimum Lightpath
JERICHO, N.Y., July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Optimum Lightpath(SM), a market leader in Ethernet-based communication solutions for New York metropolitan area businesses, today announced that New Jersey and New York-based GAIN Capital selected Optimum Lightpath as its telecommunications provider. With Optimum Lightpath, GAIN Capital increased the speed, scalability and reliability of its 24/5 online FOREX trading platform used by customers in 140 countries around the world.
In the financial services world, speed is the competitive advantage. Many leading financial services providers rely on Optimum Lightpath's 100 percent fiber optic network for high speed, reliable and secure information delivery and management. With Optimum Lightpath, financial services companies make on-demand decisions with super low-latency connections to critical information - at the bank, on the trading floor, remotely online and virtually anywhere that speed is the lifeblood of the business. With Optimum Lightpath, financial services companies can comfortably deploy and support a variety of mission critical applications, including systems for enterprise resource planning (ERP), electronic data interchange (EDI), and customer relationship management (CRM). By mitigating risk through improved network resiliency and diversity, Optimum Lightpath customers ensure business continuity without relying on a single point of failure in a copper-based network.
In order to support its rapid growth and accommodate its need for more flexible, "on-demand" capacity, GAIN Capital extended its offering with Optimum Lightpath's 100% fiber Metro Ethernet network. Using Optimum Lightpath, the company utilizes super low latency, high availability Internet services.
"Low latency trading is critical in the fast moving currency market, so having faster connections through the Internet to our customers is a competitive advantage for both GAIN and our customers. That's why we chose Optimum Lightpath," said Andrew Haines, CIO of GAIN Capital. "Now we have true network diversity, physically independent of traditional carriers, improved speed and reliability and the ability to add capacity in just a few days - ultimately providing us with more bandwidth for fewer dollars. We feel like we have a true partner in Optimum Lightpath.
