Today's security trading involves ultra fast, high volume and automatic trading that is extremely time sensitive. Financial trading companies invest millions developing algorithms that can automatically execute high volume trades based on analyzing large amounts of data in real time. Such companies invest in high capacity computing machines to execute trades in a fraction of a second.
These systems rely on a network for the execution of trades and a delay of micro seconds can have a dramatic impact in this environment, financial services companies and carriers building networks to serve these customers are looking at the optical network for optimized low latency optical transport.