A Multi-Gigabit Challenge
The financial services sector has long sought the lowest latency networks possible, as a matter of a few milliseconds can make quite a monetary difference when it comes to automated stock shares trading programs and other transactions, such as commodities buying and selling. In certain situations, high-bandwidth wireless as the primary connection can be faster than a fiber-optic line and wireless often serves the “network redundancy” role in case of a cut in the fiber-optic network. And that was the case in a recent deployment in Southern California by Towerstream, a leading provider of fixed-wireless private network services for business and residential customers across the United States, and Siklu.
Towerstream’s customer is a well-known and major financial institution that required a private wireless network with multiple Gigabits of capacity for its Southern California operations.