Editing SWIFT (section)

===Operations centres===
The SWIFT secure messaging network is run from three [[data centre]]s, located in the United States, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. These centres share information in [[Real-time computing|near real-time]]. In case of a failure in one of the data centres, another is able to handle the traffic of the complete network. SWIFT uses [[submarine communications cable]]s to transmit its data.<ref name="harvard">{{Cite web |last=Sechrist |first=Michael |date=23 March 2010 |title=Cyberspace in Deep Water: Protecting Undersea Communication Cables By Creating an International Public-Private Partnership |url=https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/files/PAE_final_draft_-_043010.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180312083233/https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/files/PAE_final_draft_-_043010.pdf |archive-date=2018-03-12 |url-status=live |publisher=[[Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs]] |quote=For example, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), which describes itself as "the global provider of secure financial messaging services", uses undersea fiber-optic communications cables to transmit financial data between 208 countries}}</ref>

Shortly after opening its third data centre in Switzerland in 2009,<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 September 2008 |title=SWIFT: SIBOS issues |publisher=SWIFT |url=http://www.swift.com/sibos2008/sibos_2008_learn_discuss_debate/sibos_issues/Sibos_Issues_20080916.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107043453/http://www.swift.com/sibos2008/sibos_2008_learn_discuss_debate/sibos_issues/Sibos_Issues_20080916.pdf |archive-date=7 November 2015}} p. 12.</ref> SWIFT introduced a new distributed architecture with two messaging zones, European and Trans-Atlantic, so data from European SWIFT members no longer mirrored the U.S. data centre.<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 June 2008 |title=Distributed architecture |publisher=SWIFT |url=http://www.swift.com/products_services/industry_initiatives/distributed_architecture |access-date=31 August 2013 |archive-date=17 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817100653/http://www.swift.com/products_services/industry_initiatives/distributed_architecture/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> European zone messages are stored in the Netherlands and in part of the Swiss operating centre; Trans-Atlantic zone messages are stored in the United States and in another part of the Swiss operating centre that is segregated from the European zone messages. Countries outside of Europe were by default allocated to the Trans-Atlantic zone but could choose to have their messages stored in the European zone.
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Data centres
! SN
! SWIFT data centres
! Type
|-
| 1
| [[Zoeterwoude]], [[Netherlands]]
| OPC (Operating Centre)
|-
| 2
| [[Culpeper, Virginia]], [[United States]]
| OPC (Operating Centre)
|-
|3
| [[Diessenhofen]], [[Switzerland]]<ref>Multiple sources:

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* {{Cite news |title=Das Daten-Fort-Knox am Rhein |language=de |work=[[Tages-Anzeiger]] |url=https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wirtschaft/das-datenfortknox-am-rhein/story/13175743 |access-date=2022-02-16 |issn=1422-9994}}
* {{Cite web |last=Hettich |first=Barbara |title=Swift: Der Rohbau steht |url=https://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/frauenfeld-munchwilen/swift-der-rohbau-steht-ld.964476 |access-date=2022-02-16 |website=St.Galler Tagblatt |date=13 December 2011 |language=de}}
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| OPC (Operating Centre)
|-
|4
| [[Hong Kong]]
| Command and control
|}