EuNetworks Joins Pursuit of Low Latency with Dedicated Finance Network

EuNetworks has introduced an overlay network that it says is dedicated to the needs of the financial community and claims to deliver industry leading latencies for direct exchange to exchange connectivity. The first phases of the so-called euTrade network cover an ultra low latency route from Slough to five exchanges and data centres in the City of London and a new route from London to Frankfurt.

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03 Sep 2010
 
Voltaire’s 6048 Switch - Not Just For Cloud, Low Latency Trading Too

Given it was announced at VMware’s VMworld conference and partner-fest in San Francisco earlier this week, it’s not surprising that Voltaire positioned its new Vantage 6048 10gE switch as “optimised for cloud computing.” And while it certainly is pitched at ‘cloud’ data centres with thousands of servers, it is also very relevant to the needs of medium-sized server deployments typically found underpinning low-latency financial trading applications, says Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, at the networking company.

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02 Sep 2010
 
Colt Lays New Fibre to Cut Latency on Two European Routes

Colt is opening network routes between London and Frankfurt, and Paris and Brussels, which it claims provide the lowest latency in the market and which are already attracting customers from trading firms. Leveraging optical fibre technology from California’s Infinera, the London to Frankfurt route offers latency of 4.22 milliseconds between endpoints at London’s Poplar Business Park and Schmidstrasse in Frankfurt. The Malakoff (Paris) to Anderlecht (Brussels) route operates at a latency of 2.65ms. Both will be open by the first week of September.

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24 Aug 2010
 
Lupus Alpha Selects Interxion to Support Critical Applications

Frankfurt-based asset manager Lupus alpha is working with data centre service provider Interxion to optimise its critical IT applications and ensure low-latency connectivity for its institutional and retail investment strategies.

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23 Aug 2010
 
IBM Pitches Financial Markets Framework; Pre-Integrates Hardware, Software for Trading, Risk and More …

With the recent launch of its Financial Markets Framework, IBM is positioning itself as a provider of pre-integrated solutions to trading and investment firms, leveraging its own portfolio of hardware and software offerings, and augmenting them with consulting expertise and partner products. The move follows a direction that the IT giant has already taken in verticals such as banking, insurance, and outside of financial services.

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05 Aug 2010
 
Video: A-Team’s Pete Harris Interviewed at SunGard’s New York City Day

A-Team’s Pete Harris talks about transparency, efficiency and the network effect and how it enables frictionless trading at a lower cost at SunGard’s New York City Day.

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03 Aug 2010
 
Atrium Continues FX Expansion on Wave of North American, European Growth

Atrium Network’s addition of FXCM to its list of foreign exchange connections is part of the French connectivity provider’s ongoing expansion both in terms of asset class and geography. FXCM will use Atrium’s extranet to connect its North Bergen, New Jersey, data centre to Atrium points of presence (POPs) in the New York/New Jersey metro area.

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29 Jul 2010
 

 
 

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