Case Study: Global Financial Information Services Company achieves continuous, redundant 10 Gbps connectivity with XO Communications

XO Communications Helps Ensure Continuous Network Connectivity for Major Global Financial Information Services Company

Global Financial Information Services Company turned to XO Communications when it needed to eliminate single‑carrier risk and increase network diversity between two critical data centers more than 1,000 miles apart. The firm required high‑speed, low‑latency links and a provider that could quickly understand its complex network; it selected XO Communications’ XO Wavelength services (two 10 Gbps wavelengths with Ethernet handoffs).

XO Communications built end‑to‑end fiber rings with dual access points into each data center, deployed customer‑premises equipment, and connected those rings to its nationwide fiber backbone to deliver the two 10 Gbps XO Wavelengths. The implementation provided the required redundancy and network diversity, a pricing model with a three‑year ROI, faster provisioning and scalability (the customer immediately ordered additional 10 Gbps wavelengths to support a trading platform), and reliable, managed connectivity with 24x7 monitoring and SLAs.