McKay Brothers Completes UK Wireless Data Network

McKay Brothers Completes UK Wireless Data Network

Inside Market Data

Joanne Faulkner  17 Dec 2015

McKay is claming to have the lowest-known latency between key datacenters in and around London.

The POP, which is adjacent to the London Stock Exchange, connects datacenters serving major UK equities, interest rate and foreign exchange matching engines at the lowest latency, officials say, claiming roundtrip latency from the Equinix LD4 datacenter in Slough to McKay’s Central London POP of 272 microseconds. McKay’s private bandwidth service connects clients trading at key FX matching engines in LD4 and the London Hosting Center with roundtrip latency of 306 microseconds between those (subscription required for full article)