Fidelity Investments Dual-Core Enterprise DR Pair
Synchronous disaster recovery pair linking primary financial systems across Merrimack NH and Smithfield RI
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The story
Fidelity Investments operates one of Wall Street's benchmark enterprise disaster recovery pairs to safeguard trillions of dollars in customer assets. Engineered under strict post-9/11 financial continuity guidelines, the enterprise topology pairs two multi-megawatt tier-class enterprise campuses in Merrimack, New Hampshire and Smithfield, Rhode Island. Separated by approximately 75 miles (120 km) — outside the same regional power grid failure zone yet within the latency threshold for zero-data-loss synchronous database mirroring — the sites operate in continuous active-active load sharing with sub-millisecond heartbeat failover.
Notable
- Engineered to meet SEC and Federal Reserve interagency financial business continuity guidelines.
- Distance of ~75 miles satisfies synchronous replication optical physics (sub-2 ms round trip fiber latency).
- Active-active enterprise architecture hosting trillions of dollars in brokerage and retirement accounts.
- Each campus features independent high-voltage utility feeds, on-site fuel farms, and dual N+2 central plants.
Sites
| Code | Place | Role | Provider |
|---|---|---|---|
| FMR-MERRIMACK | Merrimack, NH, United States | enterprise-core | Fidelity Investments (Merrimack Campus) |
| FMR-SMITHFIELD | Smithfield, RI, United States | enterprise-dr | Fidelity Investments (Smithfield Campus) |
| FMR-BOSTON | Boston, MA, United States | hq-interconnect | Fidelity Investments (245 Summer St) |
Links
| From | To | Type | Capacity | Length | Year | Protected | Est. one-way latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FMR-MERRIMACK | FMR-SMITHFIELD | replication | 400 Gbps | 128 km | — | yes | 1.35 ms |
| FMR-MERRIMACK | FMR-BOSTON | backbone | 200 Gbps | 85 km | — | yes | 0.85 ms |
| FMR-SMITHFIELD | FMR-BOSTON | backbone | 200 Gbps | 92 km | — | yes | 0.92 ms |
Latency marked ≈ is our estimate from the great-circle distance × 1.5 at 5 µs per km, not the operator's figure.
Sources
- Fidelity Investments Corporate Overview and Enterprise Infrastructure · Fidelity Investments · 2023-01-15
- Fidelity Opens New Rhode Island Data Center Campus · Data Center Knowledge · 2008-04-24
- Fidelity Investments Completes Smithfield Tech Complex · The Providence Journal · 2008-04-25
Part of the open famous data centers dataset (CC BY 4.0). Updated 2026-10-15.
What is Fidelity Investments Dual-Core Enterprise DR Pair famous for?
Synchronous disaster recovery pair linking primary financial systems across Merrimack NH and Smithfield RI
How many sites and links does Fidelity Investments Dual-Core Enterprise DR Pair have in this dataset?
3 sites and 3 links, of which 0 are recorded as not protected. Figures are from the public sources listed on the page.
Who operates Fidelity Investments Dual-Core Enterprise DR Pair?
Fidelity Investments (FMR LLC)