Colocation Hosting

Location is key to moving fast—which is why we offer dedicated or shared hosting solutions beside the world’s largest liquidity sources.

Colocated Infrastructure in AMRS, EMEA, and APAC in
All Major Trading Destinations

Pico solves the challenges of scaling, upfront data center build costs and rapid time-to-market, for firms who wish to co-locate their trading infrastructure in a data center, by building and maintaining high-density, high-powered, secure rack space in 52 data centers globally.

Each cabinet is directly connected to PicoNet™ providing seamless global access to trading venues, PTP timing services, outbound internet connectivity, and market data services around the world.

Highlights

  • Time-to-Market: be live in days or weeks, not months.

  • Fully Managed and Supported: SOC II Compliant

  • On-Site Intellihands: 24/7 Global Support

  • Cost Effective

PicoNet™

Access over 200 global market venues via PicoNet™, our private ultra low-latency proprietary network mesh. Extremely flat, minimizing hops and latency wherever possible, PicoNet™ is ultra-resilient and fault-tolerant, providing the fastest path connections between on-net co-location sites.

Dedicated Infrastructure

We procure a rack exclusively for you. All network components—including Top of Rack “ToR” and management switches—are resilient and completely dedicated to you with the option to have them fully managed by Pico. In this dedicated model, your rack is connected to the Pico core switch infrastructure to access data and trade.

Each cabinet can be customized to your needs including power density, use of smart PDUs, ToR design and security compliance. We offer you the flexibility to assign ports accordingly to your connectivity needs. Pico supplies remote access to hosted hardware either via IPSEC Site-to-Site VPN or via cross-connect.

Shared Infrastructure

Pico’s standard Arista low latency Top of Rack configuration, inside a shared Pico hosting environment. The Top of Rack access layer node operate as a multi-layer switch combining 10G port aggregation and routing functionality connecting to all available markets on PicoNet™.

Shared devices receive an allocation of two 10Gbps ports in a trading switch and two 1Gbps ports in a management-level switch with 400W of power. Additional ports are available if you need them. We supply remote access to client servers either via IPSEC Site-to-Site VPN or via cross-connect.

Location is Key to Moving Faster than Your Competition

North American Network

Live with data centers in AMRS, including Ashburn, Aurora, Carteret, Cermak, Mahwah, Markham, Secaucus, and Weehawken. Pico’s fast approaching AMRS expansion includes Mexico City, Sao Paulo, and Toronto.

Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Live with data centers in EMEA, including the United Kingdom, Germany, South Africa, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and Italy— with rapid expansion plans in Athens, Dubai, Riyadh, Tel Aviv, and Turkey.

Asia Pacific

Live with data centers in APAC, including Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, with expansion to Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand.