A global quantitative trading firm simplified a fragmented, multi-carrier network while gaining hop-by-hop visibility into latency and routing behavior. Learn how Graphiant enabled faster provisioning, deeper network intelligence, and more efficient operations—without replacing existing providers.
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The Customer is a global quantitative trading firm specializing in automated trading algorithms built on advanced mathematical techniques. Supporting these strategies requires highly specialized, latency-sensitive network infrastructure spanning multiple carriers, data centers, and private connectivity providers.
Performance transparency and operational efficiency are central to the firm’s success. As their environment evolved, the Customer increasingly relied on a mix of providers, including private connectivity platforms, to meet agility and performance demands. While this approach offered flexibility, it also introduced operational complexity and limited visibility into how the network behaved across providers.
Operating a large-scale network to support specialized, latency-sensitive trading workloads created complex and evolving requirements for the Customer. To remain agile, the team worked with multiple carriers and private connectivity providers across data centers and regions.
Over time, this approach resulted in a fragmented environment. Each provider introduced its own billing models, provisioning timelines, and operational workflows, making the network increasingly difficult to manage as a cohesive whole. Limited carrier-level visibility further complicated operations, making it hard for the team to fully understand network behavior or respond quickly to issues.
Graphiant helped the Customer unify this fragmented environment by providing a single operational layer across all connectivity providers. This unified view allowed the network team to manage the entire environment more consistently while preserving flexibility and provider choice.
Managing fragmented connectivity and billing across providers and traditional data center cross-connects introduced long lead times, manual provisioning processes, and significant operational overhead. These inefficiencies were especially pronounced for smaller connections, where the effort required often outweighed the value delivered. Additionally, the customer had limited inter-carrier visibility. The team lacked clear, hop-by-hop insight into latency, routing behavior, and carrier-level performance, which made it difficult to fully understand network behavior and optimize performance across providers.
Graphiant addressed these challenges through network abstraction and real-time streaming visibility. Without replacing existing providers, Graphiant delivered a unified view of the Customer’s network, allowing the team to provision, manage, and monitor connectivity through a single deployment workflow.
The Customer highlighted Graphiant’s tokenized billing model as a major differentiator. By abstracting carrier-specific processes, the team eliminated long provisioning timelines and reduced deployments from weeks or months to days. Operational workflows were further streamlined through Graphiant’s portal, which replaced multiple vendor dashboards with a single system for monitoring and troubleshooting across all providers.
For latency-sensitive trading operations, understanding how performance varies across carriers is critical. Prior to Graphiant, the Customer lacked hop-by-hop insight into latency, routing behavior, and carrier-level characteristics. When performance issues arose, the team had limited ability to isolate root causes and often relied on educated guesswork.
With Graphiant, the Customer gained granular visibility into latency and performance at each segment of the network path. This capability allows the team to conclusively identify, or rule out, the network as the source of performance issues. The Customer described this level of insight as previously impossible to obtain, and now essential for effective root cause analysis and performance optimization.
The Customer also approaches emerging technologies with caution. Rather than embracing AI-driven capabilities based on hype, they prioritize mature, practical solutions that deliver clear, measurable operational value and can be trusted in production environments. They chose Graphiant for its immediate practical impact, along with its ability to integrate emerging technologies over time as they mature.
For quantitative trading firms managing complex, multi-carrier environments, Graphiant delivers a differentiated networking platform that simplifies connectivity while unlocking deep inter-carrier intelligence.
By abstracting provider complexity through a tokenized model and delivering granular, hop-by-hop visibility into network performance, Graphiant enables teams to operate more efficiently, troubleshoot with confidence, and optimize latency-sensitive workloads, without forcing premature adoption of immature technologies.
“The billing capabilities with tokens bring immense value. Being able to abstract Packetfabric, Megaport, and data center cross-connects without thinking about long lead times—especially for smaller connections—is very interesting. The ability to see all inter-carrier items, hop-by-hop latency, and characteristics at each carrier level is very valuable, not just from security, but from an operational intelligence perspective.”
