Your trading network, checked before the opening bell.
Since 2016, AN Solutions has engineered and run low-latency networks for proprietary trading firms and market makers in Chicago, New Jersey and New York. Our engineers work with AI automation that checks every switch, feed and session before the open. Nothing changes on your devices until an engineer approves it.
- 24/5 smart-hands dispatch
- 72-hour SLA for scheduled work
- Engineer approval on every change
Premarket checkout
Example run, 6:00 a.m. Central
- Collected interface, BGP and multicast state from every switch
- Market-data feeds: no gaps on A or B side
- Exchange and counterparty BGP sessions established
- 2 err-disabled ports found on access switches
- Recovery plan drafted and sent to the on-call engineer
- Engineer approved. Ports recovered and verified
- Report delivered to the client's ops channel
Illustrative. Checks, times and counts vary by client.
One accountable team, from the cross-connect to the config.
Most firms split network engineering and datacenter work across vendors and then chase both when something breaks. We do both, on a monthly engineering retainer and a dispatch SLA for hands-on work.
Network engineering
Design, build and run for latency-sensitive environments.
- Exchange and counterparty connectivity onboarding
- Multicast market-data distribution
- Palo Alto and Fortinet firewall lifecycle
- Switch upgrades, consolidation and colocation build-outs
- Network and datacenter audits, with recommended actions
- Incident and problem management, with root-cause reports
- Moves, adds, changes and decommissions
- Automated monitoring and premarket checkouts
Datacenter smart hands
24/5 dispatch, a 72-hour SLA for scheduled work, and same-day support for urgent weekend requests.
- Rack and stack, patching and cross-connects
- Break-fix and hardware swaps
- Shipments, receiving, customs and RMAs
- Inventory and asset audits
- RequestOpen a ticket in the client portal or call.
- AccessWe confirm facility access and any shipments.
- WorkAn engineer on site, on the phone with your team if needed.
- Close-outNotes and results in the ticket before it closes.
We support every datacenter in the New York, Chicago and London metros. The ones our clients use most:
New York / New Jersey
- NYSE Mahwah
- Nasdaq Carteret
- Equinix Secaucus (NY4, NY5)
Chicago
- CME Aurora
- 350 E Cermak
London
- Equinix LD4, Slough
AI does the routine work, so engineers spend their time on judgment.
We run an AI-assisted operations platform in production for trading clients today. It handles the repeatable parts of implementation and operations: collecting state, comparing it against a known-good baseline, drafting the fix, and writing the report.
- Premarket checkouts
- Every switch, feed and session checked before the open, with a report to your team.
- Switch audits
- Configs scored against CIS benchmarks, with a phased remediation plan.
- Port recovery
- Err-disabled ports found and recovered on approval, not left for a morning ticket.
- Security monitoring
- VPN credential-spray detection and CVE intelligence for the devices you run.
- Change plans
- Plans drafted from live device state, so the plan matches what's actually running.
- Client reporting
- Capacity, incident and monthly hours reports built from tickets and telemetry.
Built by engineers who've worked inside trading firms.
AN Solutions was founded in 2016 by Robert Kim, who leads architecture, operations and client relationships from Chicago. The team has been the single point of accountability for networks where a misconfigured port can cost a client its morning.
Before ANS, Robert spent more than 15 years delivering financial extranets and ultra-low-latency market-data connectivity for global carriers and trading-infrastructure providers, from circuit provisioning to running infrastructure and client delivery for hundreds of trading-firm clients. He holds the PMP.
- 2016Founded in New Jersey, providing project management and datacenter services.
- 2017Network and platform engineering added. Datacenter ticket history starts: 1,732 tickets since.
- 2018Services extended to Chicago.
- 2020Network services for global trading environments.
- 2023Managed hosting in the New York metro.
- 2026AI-assisted operations in production for two trading clients.
- NextThe same automation, packaged for smaller financial and enterprise firms (roadmap).
A way back into engineering work.
We bring on engineers between roles and people moving into tech from other industries as subcontractors on real client work. Six of them have gone on to full-time roles.
Work with usQuestions trading firms ask us first.
Can the automation change our network on its own?
No. It collects state, compares it with a known-good baseline and drafts a plan. Nothing changes on a client device until an engineer approves it.
What is the smart-hands SLA?
Dispatch runs 24/5, and scheduled work carries a 72-hour SLA. Urgent weekend requests get same-day support.
Which facilities do you cover?
Every datacenter in the New York, Chicago and London metros, including NYSE Mahwah, Nasdaq Carteret, Equinix Secaucus, CME Aurora, 350 E Cermak and Equinix LD4.
How do engagements work?
Most start small: ad-hoc datacenter work, or an audit of the network or the cage. From there, network engineering runs on a monthly retainer and hands-on datacenter work is dispatched under the smart-hands SLA.
Will you name us as a client?
Not without your written permission. Case studies describe the kind of firm, not the firm.
We're already a client. How do we open a ticket?
Sign in to the client portal, or call +1 (551) 236-3999.
Talk to an engineer, not a sales queue.
Tell us what you're running and where. An engineer will get back to you within one business day.
- Phone
- +1 (551) 236-3999
- Offices
- Chicago, Illinois and New Jersey
- Existing clients
- Sign in to the client portal to open or track a ticket.
Email an engineer
Tell us what you need (network engineering, smart hands, AI operations) and which metro.
support@ansolutions.io