Cisco Systems to Acquire Reactivity
Monday, March 5th, 2007Cisco has agreed to acquire privately-held Reactivity, a provider of XML acceleration and security appliances.
Archive for March, 2007
New FXall ECN To Fill Trades in 20 Milliseconds
Monday, March 5th, 2007FXall’s recently launched ECN for foreign exchange, Accelor, adds an anonymous dealing capability to its existing relationship trading services for FX, and offers high speed matching, support for a variety of execution types and a range of market data.
Thomson Selects BT Radianz for Low Latency Connectivity
Monday, March 5th, 2007Thomson Financial has selected BT Radianz to provide low latency connectivity services for the Thomson Data Feed (TDF). The deal follows Thomson’s recent deal with Wombat Financial Software to embed that company’s low latency offering with TDF.
FixNetix To Deliver LSE Infolect Data
Monday, March 5th, 2007Fixnetix and the London Stock Exchange have agreed a distribution deal under which the Exchange’s Infolect data will be delivered to customers Fixnetix’ iX-Direct low latency service. Infolect, the LSE’s real-time market data delivery system, carries more than 15 million messages a day to customers with a latency of two milliseconds from broadcast to delivery.
Thomson/Wombat Tie Up For Low Latency Datafeeds
Monday, March 5th, 2007From A-Team Group’s Market Data Insight, February 2007: Thomson Financial has forged an agreement with Wombat Financial Software to embed Wombat’s low latency market data delivery capability within the real-time Thomson Data Feed (TDF). The deal gives Thomson a jumpstart in the area of direct exchange feed delivery and handling, and lends credence to Thomson’s plan to offer enterprise distribution of its data.
NSX Launches Low Latency BLADE Trading System
Monday, March 5th, 2007The National Stock Exchange (NSX) has launched a new state-of-the-art technology platform - NSX BLADE. NSX, the nation’s first all-electronic stock exchange, expects the new system will support more than 15,000 orders per second and 1,500 executions per second. NSX BLADE uses Sun Fire servers powered by UltraSPARC and AMD Opteron processors, as well as the Sun StorageTek Compliance Archiving System.
Vhayu Targets Velocity at Fixed Income Market
Monday, March 5th, 2007Vhayu has introduced Vhayu Velocity for Fixed Income, delivering real-time analytics and storage for fixed income market data. Several European financial institutions have deployed Velocity for Fixed Income to provide realtime and historical quote and trade snapshots, with the ability to support best execution and MiFID compliance.
Low Latency Crowd Braces For Hardware Acceleration
Monday, March 5th, 2007By Henry Young, Director, TS-Associates
The era of software-based market data systems running on generic server and desktop hardware is now well through its second decade. The lifeblood of any large trading floor flows through the veins of its digital data distribution system. When the flow stops, all hell breaks loose. Our firm, TSAssociates, is in the business of preventing that from happening.
