# ICE Global Network
**Entity class:** Financial-market connectivity network
## Definition
**ICE Global Network** is [[wiki/Intercontinental Exchange|ICE]]’s connectivity and delivery infrastructure for market participants, data feeds, venues, colocation, wireless and fiber access, and cloud connections. It is the transport layer that makes market and reference data operationally usable across distributed trading environments.
## Relationships
- **parent:** [[wiki/Intercontinental Exchange|Intercontinental Exchange]].
- **data payloads:** [[wiki/ICE Data Services|ICE Data Services]].
- **architectural analogue:** [[wiki/Data Fabric|Data Fabric]] and [[wiki/Observation-to-Decision Stack|Observation-to-Decision Stack]].
- **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [ICE Global Network — Documents](https://www.ice.com/fixed-income-data-services/access-and-delivery/global-network/documents)
- [ICE — Connectivity collateral](https://www.ice.com/download-collateral)