Many of London's largest financial institutions already use AboveNet's high bandwidth fibre optic network, and the company offers a considerable high performance footprint - extending from Docklands and Basildon in the East, through the City and West End, and out to Heathrow and Slough in the West.

Located in the heart of the City of London, the Interxion datacentre is ideally located to provide AboveNet's City-based financial services customers who want to connect to London's top liquidity markets with a close proximity connection. By reducing the distance data has to travel, AboveNet can offer lower latency and reduced networking costs to companies connecting in London and extend this worldwide to locations such as New York, Chicago, Frankfurt and Paris.

AboveNet's legacy free Ethernet infrastructure and IP backbone, coupled with its metropolitan fibre networks, support a truly valuable set of service offerings. Customers are able to consolidate or scale inter-site connectivity while realising cost savings, simplifying network topologies at the same time as increasing performance and lowering latency. When quality Internet connectivity is also added, AboveNet is providing Interxion customers with the option to work with a connectivity provider capable of delivering significant and proven business benefits.

"We are pleased that AboveNet has joined the Interxion Financial Hub, the community of exchanges, MTFs, buy-side and sell-side firms, and ISVs & VARs within our London data centre," commented Anthony Foy, Group Managing Director at Interxion. "As one of the City's only data centre providers to be in close proximity to five of the largest liquidity markets, we are well positioned to meet the current and future collocation requirements of capital market participants."

"This investment in our network is good news for financial services organisations looking for lower latency, cost effective and more secure connectivity for their increasingly bandwidth-heavy applications," said John Donaldson, managing director at AboveNet UK. "The relationship with Interxion is vital to our growth strategy, putting us ahead of the curve on service provision and providing our customers with essential competitive advantage."

Interxion's high-specification data centre provides an excellent location for power, services, cooling and security for a Point of Presence. AboveNet has deployed a Juniper MX960 router as part of its ongoing network upgrade to offer customers up to 10Gbit Ethernet ports supporting enhanced functionality for both its metro and international services.

With direct connections into significant numbers of key financial services buildings across the capital, AboveNet offers unrivalled connectivity to over 30 major data centre and co-location facilities, as well as leading Exchanges, MTFs, brokers and investment houses. AboveNet is continuing to invest in the future of its network, extending its infrastructure to reach new financial services centres such as Basildon, and providing its customers with the fastest direct routes between key London financial locations.