Trading fast is about to get faster in Europe thanks to a new hyper-fast trading network that uses next-generation transmission technology.
McKay Brothers, a low latency microwave network provider, has chosen Interxion’s City of London data center campus for its latest ultra-low latency connection between the key financial centers of London and Frankfurt.
Why go to microwaves?
Microwave transmission technology typically offers a better than 40 percent improvement in latency over fiber connections. And that means faster executions and cheaper pricing for traders.
McKay Brothers has launched two products in the UK based on its microwave technology. The first is a private wireless bandwidth product, and the second is the Quincy Extreme Data service, which distributes select European and U.S. market data to subscribers at the lowest known latency at a competitive price point.
Both systems support effective risk management and trading.
By colocating at the Interxion London Campus and cross connecting to McKay Brothers European network, trading firms and market makers can all equally benefit from microwave and millimeter wave links to key European Financial centers and thereby achieve better risk management and trading.
McKay already runs an established U.S. microwave networks between Illinois and New Jersey, as well as millimeter metro networks within those key states.
McKay publishes latencies for all its routes on its website in the interest of market transparency.
