If I where to connect to SIAC thru a SONNET ring who's
would it be? Is it private or public?
If I where to connect to SIAC thru a SONNET ring who's
would it be? Is it private or public?
They use any provider (Verizon, MCI, AT&T and ConEd Comm.), however
ConED Comm. is their primary backbone provider. So, here's how you go
about it. You order a line (DS-1, DS-3, 100Mb/s, Gig, whatever) from
any of the providers you use (if I were you I would use either Verizon
or ConEd Comm, I can give you the number for ConEd Comm. head sales
person). You contact SIAC, and you start the paperwork to get your
network connected into their backbone SONET. Once you get permit
numbers, you have the provider drop a line into one of 5 data centers
around NY area, and SIAC gives you a port on one of their Juniper
Routers. They also give you a VLAN setup requirements so you can
configure your border switch/router. The line is owned by you. SIAC
only gives you a port on their routers. NOTE: NEVER ORDER ONE LINE.
ORDER TWO OR MORE LINES TO DIFFERENT SIAC DATA CENTERS. The cost for one
port (one line) is as follows:
MRC (Monthly Reaccuring Cost): $4,400.00
NRC (Non-Reaccuring Cost i.e. one time fee): $8,800
Any line you drop at SIAC will cost you that amount, and that's on top
of the line costs from the provider. That's it. Hope this helps. Like
I said it's a very long and tedious process getting the line up and
running with SIAC. They are practically a government institution, and
they don't move too fast for anybody.
My advice to you is to use a third party provider like Radianz, TNS or
Sector (SIAC owned company). They can take a lot of headaches away from
this. David is right, you can't connect to SIAC directly any more,
that's a legacy network (called so by SIAC) and are phasing it out.
Again, if you are in CA then use one of the above mentioned providers.
It's cost effective and faster then if you were dealing with SFTI
directly. BTW, to everybody, please don't write back saying that third
party providers are NO GOOD or that you had bad experiences with them.
I'm well aware of all this and don't need a lecture on it. My opinion
(and I have been dealing with all of them extensivly for a long time) if
you are in CA, use them it takes away lot of headaches (make sure
you're redundant with them) and gets you up and running fast. My
prefered way of connecting would either be Radianz or Sector, I don't
like TNS (to all TNS guys outthere, sorry). Hope this helps.
AC
I would prefer not to use a third party provider
because of the IP backbone. My experience has been
witht eh third party providers is that there is not
enough responsiveness (packet loss issues) to
burstable traffic at market open and close.
Unfortunately when the third party networks were
designed there was no forethought into the need for
market data traffic or multicast. They were
concentrating on FIX and CMS traffic which is low
volume low BW TCP traffic.
I think the real answer here is to be as close to SFTI
as possible if you intend to go direct. Hosting at 2
or more SFTI DC's seems is the best option. Direct
local access seems second best
I would prefer not to use a third party provider
because of the IP backbone. My experience has been
witht eh third party providers is that there is not
enough responsiveness (packet loss issues) to
burstable traffic at market open and close.
Unfortunately when the third party networks were
designed there was no forethought into the need for
market data traffic or multicast.
Hmmm... well I happen to work in Engineering at Radianz.
I can assure that our network was designed for multicast
so that there are two resilient low latency paths for multicast
traffic throughout our network in spite of the tendency
of IP to have a single best path. And our basic design
rules for network capacity worldwide are to allow for
the bursts that happen at U.S. Market Open.
The advice to go to a 3rd party provider who specializes
in the financial services industry is a good one because
we and our competitors tend to understand the special needs
of companies in that industry. If you want to discuss this
further with one of our technical sales support people,
then send me an email and I'll put you in touch.
--Michael Dillon