Shorter Latency Solution: Direct Connection to China Via CN2

As a market with enormous potentiality, Mainland China has been considered as one of a promising region to grow business for many forex brokers across the global. But when moving into this market, they encounter challenges ranging from laws, regulations and culture differences to internet connectivity.

To on-board more retail clients, brokers must solve the issue of trading latency, which is the reason why brokers put the internet connectivity in the first place. One of the most popular would be the use of CN2. Although Hong Kong is geographically closed to mainland China, it is beyond coverage of the Great Firewall.

To on-board more retail clients, brokers must solve the issue of trading latency, which determines

CN2 (AS4809), also known as the China Telecom Next Generation Carrier Network, is a successor of ChinaNet Assess.CN2 currently covers nearly 200 cities in mainland China with points of presence in Hong Kong, Singapore, Los Angeles, New York, etc.

CN2 has the highest resilience, redundancy and low latency. It focuses on serving enterprises that need a high performance telecommunications connection with China, as well as provides direct connections to all major global ISPs via fiber optic data delivery. There are two types of CN2: Global Transit (CN2 GT) and Global Internet Access (CN2 GIA).

Global Transit (CN2 GT) is cost-effective access to China IP networks via CN2. It has more than 300 POPs including all China’s cities and major cities worldwide. Loading is lighter than ChinaNet Access. To ensure its quality of service, transmission channel utilization ratio is kept under 50%. It has BGP-4 routing to CN2 and ChinaNet Assess.

Global Internet Access (CN2 GIA) offers a premium China access between mainland China and counties outside China. It has a dedicated path and the lowest latency routes on CN2. It has dual-POPs in 161 cities and dual-PEs installed in 148 single-POP cities. However, the price of CN2 GIA is about 3 times more expensive than CN2 GT.

The Advantages of CN2

• High Priority ---- Peak hours also unimpeded

China has implemented QoS (Quality of Service), which means they would like to deliver high priority data rather than low priority data first. With CN2 Network, it seems like a VIP pass which is unimpeded even in the peak hours.

• Fast connection between China and Hong Kong

CN2 network has fast connection from Hong Kong to China, and the latency from Hong Kong to China is lower than 50ms, it is really suitable to the customers who are domestic marking orientation companies and sensitive to the high latency issues, such as Financial and Game Companies.

• High stability

High redundancy, even either one line breaks down, it will change to back up lines intelligently, and services availability ratio reaches 99.99%.

• Light Loading

In order to maintain services stability, the usage is not more than 50% of the whole network utilization. So, the Packet loss rates are low and the speeds are stable.

• Internet delay

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However, many brokers has been at disadvantageous position in the competition for ignoring the importance of internet connectivity. Find experienced partners in such filed and choose appropriate solutions, and you will stand out among your peers.

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