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Steadfast Financial Networks
Comprehensive Hosted Low-Latency and Proximity Financial Services Solutions
Steadfast Financial Networks is a comprehensive financial IT and telecommunication services firm specializing in providing all the services trading firms need to stay competitive and at the cutting edge. Our breadth and depth of experience, working with some of the world's largest and most sophisticated financial firms. The infrastructure operated by Steadfast Networks, gives us unparalleled scope in the services we can offer; ranging from managed dedicated servers, IP transport and transit, proximity colocation, network and server monitoring services, managed colocation, and more.
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Financial Market Data
Steadfast Financial Networks provides direct market data and execution access services (through direct cross connects) to the largest and most critical financial market data networks around the world, giving our customers low-latency proximity financial market data to the Chicago Mercantile Exhcange (CME Group), the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), CBOE, NYMEX/COMEX, and many more. Financial firms small and large alike using our services can access financial exchange market data and execution services directly. We provide low-latency and proximity financial data services with no unnecessary intermediaries, you have a direct connection to the exchange, resulting in outstanding performance. In addition, we can supplement our core financial data services product with dedicated links as well; ideal for customers who need to shave every microsecond off their trade execution time for that extra edge.
Proximity Colocation & Server Solutions
Steadfast offers proximity colocation at 350 E Cermak Rd in Chicago from a single 1u server to a dedicated 100+ kw cage and individual managed dedicated servers. We operate our own datacenters in Chicago (350 E Cermak Rd and 725 S Wells) and New York (121 Varick St.) allowing for geographic redundancy and disaster recovery (DR) plans. In addition to being in key facilities we have 24/7 remote hands available and have common computer components in stock and on site so we can get you up and running in the case of a hardware failure; our remote hands are very competitively priced, and are always done by skilled systems administrators.
Low Latency Network Services
Steadfast Financial Networks provides a host of IP connectivity solutions. We provide low-latency IP transport for interconnecting sites and offices, high-speed low-latency Internet transit, a variety of supplementary network services, metro ethernet services and network engineering.
24/7 Monitoring Services / Managed Colocation
Steadfast Financial Networks provides managed colocation services which provide proactive monitoring for all critical systems and network latency levels so we can proactively address any issues that might come up. In addition, we can monitor any systems in your infrastructure and respond to issues so they do not become major issues. Our monitoring is proactive and 24/7 and we can monitor all protocols. Make us your 24/7 on-call systems administration and network engineering team with managed colocation.
Why Steadfast Networks?
The staff of Steadfast Financial Networks has vast experience with trading-related technologies and services. Aside from our main technology partners (Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Dell, Supermicro, Citrix, and Microsoft) we specialize in making sure we are familiar with the facilities, services and products our financial services clients need. We have experience with direct exchange and execution connections to NASDAQ, NYSE/ARCA, BATS, DirectEdge, CBOE, CME, ICE and more. We also have experience with many market data providers and solutions and offer our own market data infrastructure. Through our parent company, Steadfast Networks, we are able to provide a low-latency infrastructure for connecting to market data feeds and for executing trades.
We understand your need for speed & performance
At Steadfast Financial Networks, we "speak your language" and are familiar with the more specialized areas of financial and trading services technology. Above all, our systems and infrastructure is designed to be low-latency at every level so our priorities are aligned with your trading strategies; we know that time to market has a material effect on trading firms' bottom lines and so that's where we focus our time and energy.
Uptime and reliability are the cornerstone of our deployments
We also know that uptime and availability are key, so we've built redundancy into every layer of our network and infrastructure. All of our data connectivity and power infrastructure is at least 2N redundant, so you won't have to worry about your systems going down, especially not during critical trading hours. Combined with our proactive monitoring services, we've designed everything to be high-availability and low-latency.
We have the resources to get any job done
We operate our own data centers (over 20,000 sq. ft.) and networks (nationwide multiple 10 GigE backbone) in both Chicago and New York City and have our own dedicated on-site staff at both sites. There is no reliance on other network providers or third party on-site staff. Our staff is deep in talent, with many CCIE grade engineers and all with years of experience in the IT and financial IT industries. This allows us to assure everything is handled efficiently and properly from end-to-end, no matter the time or day.
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