Case Study: SpotOption achieves 5x faster trading platform performance in China with CDNetworks

Spotoption Accelerates Its Online Trading Platform In China

SpotOption, founded in 2010 and used by more than 300 brands holding 65% of the market, provides a web-based online trading platform that requires real-time pricing for traders (some with expiries as short as 15 seconds). The company faced persistent latency and TCP/websocket performance problems in mainland China—exacerbated by the Great Firewall and local network issues—which risked arbitrage, customer churn and service abandonment despite using a CDN.

SpotOption engaged CDNetworks to deploy Dynamic Network Acceleration and China Acceleration, moving transport-layer traffic from its Hong Kong servers to local PoPs in China and eliminating excessive round trips. The result: platform load times in China are now five times faster, with significantly reduced latency, fewer customer service issues and lower churn, restoring real-time pricing reliability and reducing arbitrage risk.

SpotOption

Amir Vaknin

CTO and VP R&D