Light travels at 5.43μs (Microseconds) per mile in a vacuum. Light speed on the Exponential-e network achieves 7.63μs. This translates to 10.4ms London to Frankfurt which is currently the fastest route available from any global service provider...
Exponential-e Financial Markets is a financial community of over 150 buy-side and sell-side financial organisations. Hosted as a single community from Exponential-e’s high speed, secure and scalable Ethernet network, members get all the advantages of peer-to-peer connectivity and a simple, secure and private environment from which to connect with each other, trade and share financial data and applications.
Exponential-e is a member of the Equinix Financial eXchange Community.
The Equinix Financial eXchange is a community of common interest. It consists of capital market participants such as execution venues, buy and sell-side firms, market data providers, and network service providers. Exponential-e provides connectivity to Equinix centres in London, Frankfurt and Chicago.
Simple zero-hop connections between banks and trading venues within the facility can be extended globally using the single-hop switched characteristics of Exponential-e’s Ethernet network.

Our network-reach encompasses all carrier-neutral data centres in London and internationally in Frankfurt, Chicago and New York. Click here for a map of our Financial Markets footprint.
We offer high-speed connectivity to our members in the list below and are able to support even the most-latency sensitive of applications and services.
Chicago Board of Trade - www.cbot.com
Chi-X - www.chi-x.com
Chicago Mercantile Exchange - www.cme.com
Deutsche Bourse - www.deutsche-bourse.com
FTEN - www.ften.com
Hotspot FX - www.hotspotfx.com
ICAP - www.icap.com
Knight Capital Group - www.knight.com
Lava Trading - www.lavatrading.com