WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. and LONDON -- Building on the success of AboveNet's recent announcement of the shortest route from the City of London to Slough, AboveNet Communications, a leading provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, today unveiled a new dedicated FinanceNet platform between the community data centre of Interxion in the City and a key multilateral trading facility in Slough.

This new route not only delivers the lowest latency connections that are essential for the performance efficiency and productivity demands in the financial markets, but also provides the security, reliability and resilience in and between exchanges and key locations.

"AboveNet has built a unique, dedicated ultra-low latency route enabling it to offer the fastest connection ever between these key financial communities. As a leading provider of premium low latency routes, it is imperative to be able to serve the market demand for low latency connectivity and we are constantly challenging ourselves to widen the gap between our current routes and our competition," said Brett Johnson, vice president, Business Development for AboveNet Europe.

AboveNet Inc. (NYSE: ABVT)