Colocation Hosting

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 55+ 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

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.

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.