Avelacom Adds Second Warsaw PoP for Low-Latency WSE Connectivity

The new PoP in the Atman datacenter will provide Avelacom clients with direct access to WSE and other trading participants.

“Warsaw has always been a strategic part of our DWDM [dense-wavelength division multiplexing] ring network that forms some of our low-latency routes between Europe and Asian markets like China. But until now, Warsaw was only a transit hub with a PoP at LIMA datacenter. Atman is… providing financial industry companies direct access to capital markets,” says Alina Karpichenko, global marketing manager at Avelacom.

The new site offers better latency and bandwidth, compared to the current datacenter, and provides lower roundtrip latency between WSE other international market centers: 16.6 milliseconds to Equinix’s FR2 datacenter in Frankfurt, 22.1ms to the London Stock Exchange, and 85.91ms to datacenters in Secaucus, NJ.

“WSE, its brokers, trading firms and other financial market participants are co-located at Atman. Now Avelacom’s network devices and servers are located in the same zone and in a very short distance to this community, compared to our initial PoP in Warsaw. We have also integrated our PoP at Atman to our backbone network based on DWDM technology, which enables us to provide the highest capacity—up to 100 Gigabits,” Karpichenko says.

She says demand for access to the Polish and Eastern European markets reflect a growing trend towards multi-venue and multi-asset trading.

“Many institutional trading firms—as well as smaller proprietary desks interested in European markets—are now asking us to provide them with an access not only to the top largest exchanges in London or Frankfurt. They’d like to tap opportunities in trading on smaller venues also. WSE is the largest equity market in Central and Eastern Europe, and it is considered as a good alternative option,” she says.

In addition, Warsaw has become “an important telecommunications hub” for the Central and Eastern Europe region, connecting countries between East and Western Europe at lower latency, says Daniel Szczesniewski, chief marketing officer at Altman, citing “many prestigious international carriers and content providers” that use the datacenter to reduce latency.