Global digital infrastructure company Colt Technology Services, announced has launched its new service, Colt ULL DCA that is set to go live from September this year. The solution combines two of its long-established offerings — Ultra Low Latency (ULL) and Direct Cloud Access (DCA) — into a single service designed to help clients move data faster between cloud regions.
As a new ultra-low latency cloud-to-cloud connectivity solution designed for the fast-paced world of digital asset trading, the service targets latency-sensitive use cases such as cryptocurrency exchanges and trading firms, to move data across cloud regions with speed and reliability. Such level of access has previously been reserved for traditional, on-premises market infrastructure, without the need for physical hardware or complex networking builds.
As cryptocurrency trading matures and exchanges increasingly operate natively in the cloud, firms face mounting pressure to keep up with the pace of market activity. But while the trading applications themselves are cloud-based, the network performance between cloud regions has not kept pace.
Today, most trading firms must choose between three suboptimal connectivity options, each carrying major limitations. Public internet connections are slow and unpredictable, with latency and jitter that vary depending on traffic congestion and routing inefficiencies. Cloud providers’ own backbone networks, while secure and resilient, do not prioritise speed, often routing data through longer paths that introduce unwanted delay. Attempting to engineer a custom, high-speed network between cloud regions typically requires costly on-premises infrastructure and specialised technical resources — an approach that is often impractical for modern, cloud-native firms.
Colt ULL DCA offers a new path forward, ideal for trading firms that operate across multiple cloud regions that do not have or wish to maintain physical infrastructure. Built on Colt’s established DCA platform, the service delivers dedicated, private connectivity between major global cloud regions. By bypassing the public internet and cloud providers’ default routing mechanisms, Colt’s network ensures data travels the shortest, most efficient path possible. This means faster trade execution, reduced slippage, and greater consistency for firms whose performance depends on every millisecond.
The solution is powered by Colt’s global ultra-low latency backbone, which spans more than 275 cloud Points of Presence (PoPs) and connects to over 180 exchanges and trading venues worldwide. As part of Colt’s MarketPrizm ecosystem, the service also integrates seamlessly with PrizmNet, Colt’s capital markets extranet, giving firms streamlined access to a full suite of market data and liquidity venues from a single platform.
In recent proof-of-concept testing between three of Colt’s key AWS regions in Asia-Pacific — Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan — Colt ULL DCA demonstrated on average 15% lower latency compared to native AWS backbone routing. While AWS’s internal network is robust and performs as designed, the tests show that Colt’s ultra-low latency infrastructure, when integrated with our cloud access platform, can offer a performance edge for the most demanding applications without the need for physical infrastructure or complex configurations.
“The cloud has become the new trading venue, especially for digital assets, but the network infrastructure hasn’t caught up,” said Wesley Edler, Global Capital Markets Product Director at Colt Technology Services. “Colt ULL DCA is a breakthrough that brings the performance of traditional market connectivity into the cloud era. It’s everything firms need to trade faster, with lower risk and greater reach.”
As digital assets become more mainstream and the demands of real-time trading intensify, Colt’s new service positions it at the forefront of capital markets connectivity, delivering the speed, flexibility and reliability that crypto trading firms need to compete in a global, cloud-native environment.
