Summary
This global market maker partners with Graphiant to simplify its hardware-heavy SD-WAN network while improving performance and compliance across its latency-sensitive trading environment. After a one-month pilot and full deployment in 12 months, the firm reduced total cost of ownership by 60% by replacing expensive hardware and licenses with Graphiant’s usage-based model. At the same time, Graphiant delivers ultra-low-latency connectivity, end-to-end traffic visibility, and integrated compliance capabilities, enabling the firm to meet strict regulatory requirements, audit transactions with confidence, and maintain high-frequency trading performance at scale.
Customer Overview
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.
Key Values Delivered
- Enhanced Visibility: The networking team used Graphiant’s solution to get end-to-end visibility into traffic flows across their entire network infrastructure.
- Integrated Compliance: Risk management was consolidated into the unified Graphiant platform which integrates seamlessly with existing third-party security tools, simplifying compliance and oversight.
- Performance at Scale: Graphiant's solution delivered consistent low-latency connectivity to meet the requirements of high-frequency trading at scale.
- Cost Optimization: Graphiant’s simpler and more cost-effective approach replaced traditional SD-WAN deployments, reducing overall spend while maintaining performance and reliability.
Simplifying The Network & Reducing TCO
The Customer was managing a hardware-intensive SD-WAN architecture across multiple data centers while trying to achieve ultra-low-latency for high-frequency trading. This was creating significant operational overhead and steadily increasing costs, while limiting the network team’s ability to clearly visualize traffic flows.
Graphiant’s NaaS solution delivered a model that simplified the underlying network architecture. By reducing reliance on specialized hardware and device licenses, the Customer was able to lower operational complexity and total cost of ownership. At the same time, Graphiant maintained the ultra-low-latency performance required for high-frequency trading while improving visibility and supporting regulatory and risk management requirements.
Providing Performance While Elevating Compliance
The original SD-WAN deployment was adding unnecessary complexity today-to-day network operations. Limited end-to-end visibility was making it difficult for teams to clearly map and understand traffic flows. This was further compounded by strict ultra-low-latency requirements which they needed to sustain to support critical trading operations, where even small delays can impact 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 built a simpler, highly performant network environment that delivered these goals.
Graphiant’s private core enables low-latency connectivity across the network, ensuring critical, high frequency trading operations remain fast and reliable. In parallel, Graphiant provides end-to-end visibility into network traffic flows; the Customer shared that this enables their network and compliance teams to easily identify, audit, and validate data compliance without blind spots.
The platform seamlessly integrates with the Customer’s existing third-party security tools, allowing host-level flow compliance while preserving 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.
Cost Savings and A New Business Model
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.
The Graphiant Advantage
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.
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