A look across the Ballroom exhibit area from the balcony.

Romain Simon and Patrice McCann of Equinix.

Analyzing transaction costs with Mary Cogger and Deidre Cogger of Tethys.

Managing market data with Bradley Firminger, Laura Foggini and Mark Simmonds of MDSL.

Discussing smartTrade’s LMS for banks, broker/dealers and asset managers.

Robert Leitner of The Roberts Group talks about saving money with market data.

Thinking data with Joel Mondon and Alexis Calmon of SmartCo.

Paul Novotny and Daniel May from SpryWare concentrate on throughput.

Reviewing trading software from Portware.

Front- and middle-office software from Charles River.

Peter Lankford (left) expounds on measuring performance.

Simon Dredge, Rick Truitt and Brian Azevedo…time-stamping nanoseconds at the Endace booth.

Delivering breaking news at TradeTheNews.com.

A peek inside the switch…

… and the people who created it, including Ernest Grella, James Cox, Stephen Cummings and Rob Ciampa

Discussing market infrastructure tech at Chi-Tech.

Greg Lorence from 29West.

Scott Parsons (left) and Michael Behr of Exegy, talking about hardware acceleration and the Exegy ticker plant.

It’s all about speed at the Vhayu booth.

Dow Jones, powering the enterprise with news, data and more.

Joseph Dubow and Kenneth Bachulis of Fiserv.