Options, a financial cloud provider to capital markets, has upgraded the route between its data center facilities in Carteret and Weehawken NJ to reduce the one-way latency on the route so that it now offers the fastest route currently available between the two sites.

The upgraded route between Verizon’s data center in Carteret and Savvis Weehawken is deployed as part of Option’s PIPE Velocity services, its low latency trading, market data and computing infrastructure. 

Options SVP Ken Barnes said: “When it comes to electronic trading there’s little tolerance for anything other than best performance ­- it’s the nature of the game. Reducing latency remains the primary benchmark by which a company such as Options is measured.”

This is the latest in a series of initiatives for Options. In March, it upgraded the route between its venues in Savvis Weehawken and Equinix Secaucus NJ, reducing the round-trip latency on the route by 36%.

Earlier this month the company upgraded and expanded its managed server hosting and connectivity in Carteret ahead of Nasdaq’s migration of its eSpeed trading platform to its main data center there.