AboveNet Launches High-Speed London-New York Link

AboveNet says it’s sold half the capacity of its new low-latency transatlantic connectivity service since it launched two weeks ago. The dark fibre provider says it now plans to establish a second 10Gigabit ethernet pipe linking London and New York, and expects to add a third within the coming year.

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18 Mar 2010
 
29West and Exegy Collaborate for Enterprise Market Data Distribution

Messaging specialist 29West is collaborating with Exegy to integrate the latter’s hardware-accelerated ticker plant with its Latency Busters Messaging (LBM) middleware, in what the companies are pitching as a “strategic new offering” for enterprise-wide market data distribution. The tie-up provides 29West with new options for data feed handlers and Exegy with a high fan-out distribution mechanism, as well as a strong middleware partner.

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08 Mar 2010
 
Cable & Wireless Targets High-Performance Crowd with Network Upgrade

Cable & Wireless Worldwide has responded to market demand for high-speed exchange connectivity with a new configuration of its International Ethernet Private Line (IEPL) network. The company reckons the newly configured network will meet the needs of high-performance traders by delivering high speed – up to 1Gb per second – as well as predictable and secure ethernet connections.

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05 Mar 2010
 
Icap Selects Tervela Messaging Technology for Electronic Broking Business

Icap has selected Tervela technology to support a global messaging infrastructure for its electronic broking division Icap Electronic Broking (IEB). Tervela’s TMX message switches, TPE persistence engines and the TPM provisioning and management system beat IBM’s MQLLM solution as well as products from Tibco Software, RTI, Solace Systems and 29West in a rigorous nine-month product evaluation and sales process that came down to a bake-off between Tervela’s hardware-based solution and a software-driven messaging system.

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03 Mar 2010
 
IBM Adds 5 Feedhandlers to WebSphere Front Office

IBM has added five feed handlers to its WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets platform as well as a delay adapter that can be used to delay the distribution of real-time market data feeds by a predefined amount of time.

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02 Mar 2010
 
Burgundy Adds Fixnetix to Low-Latency Access to Connectivity Options

Nordic multilateral trading facility (MTF) Burgundy’s addition of Fixnetix to its lineup of connectivity suppliers brings the number of connectivity options to five, including Verizon, BT, TNS and IP-Only.

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01 Mar 2010
 
Special Report: Connecting to Today’s Fast Markets

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connectingLow latency connectivity has enjoyed a resurgence of interest as high-performance trading architectures become a reality. Early interest in the low-latency ‘vision’ may have been interrupted by the global financial crisis, but no matter: low latency is back, and providing the catalyst for the explosion in high frequency trading.

As liquidity continues to fragment – in the US and globally – electronic trading operations are demanding connectivity to a broader array of execution venues. As well as traditional exchanges, traders today need access to alternative trading systems, including electronic communications networks, dark pools and multilateral trading facilities (MTFs). Securing and maintaining a robust, high-performance connectivity solution is key to providing comprehensive market access.

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