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Fixnetix, a leading provider of ultra-low latency market data, trading access and exchange hosting services, and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data centre services, today announced that Fixnetix has expanded its operations to Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in the New York and Chicago areas in order to offer the lowest latency US data and market access for European firms looking to trade in the US. The move, which builds upon current Fixnetix deployments at Equinix centres in London and Frankfurt, will also provide US-based trading firms, prime brokers and hedge funds with direct, low-latency access to key European markets.

Solace Systems will use this week’s Sifma Technology Management Conference to roll out an upgrade to its messaging appliances and to position them as a Unified Messaging Platform (UMP), providing a range of messaging capabilities, including high fan-out, low-latency, guaranteed delivery and wide area networking. Also being introduced is a distributed cache offering and partnerships for legacy system connectivity and enhanced systems monitoring.

Single-server solution doubles performance to 5 million unique messages per second with single-digit microsecond latency

A pioneer of what it calls "market data appliances, " Exegy is expanding its product range with two new products. One is designed to address an increasing number of electronic trading systems in place at market participants, while the other is specifically targeted at deployment in co-location data centres. Both are based on the same hardware-accelerated architecture that has hitherto powered the traditional Exegy Ticker Plant product.