See how a 1,500+ employee market maker simplified a hardware-heavy SD-WAN, gained full traffic-path visibility, tightened risk and compliance audits, and kept ultra-low latency for high-frequency trading, all with a usage-based cost model.
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The Customer is a global market maker that sits at the heart of the world’s financial markets, processing enormous volumes of trades for both retail and institutional investors. Their operations are powered by highly sophisticated, latency-sensitive technologies, where speed, precision, and reliability are essential. At the same time, they operate under strict regulatory and risk management frameworks, requiring deep expertise in data, analytics, and engineering to balance performance with transparency and compliance across global markets.
The Customer was managing a hardware-intensive SD-WAN architecture across multiple data centers while trying to achieve ultra-low-latency forhigh-frequency trading. This was creating significant operational overhead andsteadily increasing costs, while limiting the network team’s ability to clearlyvisualize traffic flows.
Graphiant’s NaaS solution delivered a model that simplified theunderlying network architecture. Byreducing reliance on specialized hardware and device licenses, the Customer wasable to lower operational complexity and total cost of ownership. At the sametime, Graphiant maintained the ultra-low-latency performance required forhigh-frequency trading while improving visibility and supporting regulatory andrisk management requirements.
The original SD-WAN deployment was adding unnecessary complexity today-to-day network operations. Limited end-to-end visibility was making itdifficult for teams to clearly map and understand traffic flows. This wasfurther compounded by strict ultra-low-latency requirements which they neededto sustain to support critical trading operations, where even small delays canimpact execution quality and revenue.
The Customer needed a network that could deliver both ultra-low latency and complete visibility into data movement. Using Graphiant, the Customer builta simpler, highly performant network environment that delivered these goals.
Graphiant’s private core enables low-latency connectivity across the network, ensuring critical, high frequencytrading operations remain fast and reliable. In parallel, Graphiant providesend-to-end visibility into network traffic flows; the Customer shared that thisenables their network and compliance teams to easily identify, audit, andvalidate data compliance without blind spots.
The platform seamlessly integrates with the Customer’s existing third-party security tools, allowing host-level flow compliance whilepreserving established workflows and processes. With the added intelligence provided by Graphiant’s data assurance capabilities, the Customer can now perform audits on every transaction across the network, a capability they identified as critical for meeting regulatory obligations.
Beyond technical capabilities, the Customer highlighted Graphiant’s cost-effectiveness as a key differentiator compared to their previous SD-WAN deployment, which required ongoing investment in expensive hardware and device licenses, contributing to rising costs as the network scaled.
The Customer described that Graphiant’s usage-based model eliminated the need for this hardware-heavy approach, allowing the Customer to align network costs more closely with actual usage. Despite the complexity and performance demands of their environment, Graphiant delivered meaningful cost savings without sacrificing performance, visibility, or compliance.
For high-performance financial firms operating at the intersection of compliance, visibility, and speed, Graphiant offers a differentiated SD-WAN and data assurance platform -- one that removes the tradeoff between meeting regulatory requirements and controlling network costs.
"The fact that Graphiant has a simpler and cheaper SD-WAN that can do data center connections and provide low latency at a cheaper value is very appealing. The risk and compliance capabilities with complete traffic pattern mapping and integration with our existing security tools addressed our most critical needs."
