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TMX Atrium, provider of smarter infrastructure solutions for the financial community, today announced that SS&C Technologies Holdings, (SS&C) has joined the TMX Atrium community.

TLV networks reports that their ultra-low latency microwave network was able to meet its 99.99% reliability and up-time standard during the severe storms that battered the Midwest over the past several weeks. The network did not experience any down-time or outages.

Telx, a leading provider of global interconnectivity, cloud enablement services and datacenter solutions, today announced at SIFMA Tech 2013 that Javelin Capital Markets, an OTC derivatives execution platform, has leveraged Telx's network & interconnection rich Cloud Connection Center, "CHI1" at 350 East Cermak Road, Chicago, Illinois, providing Javelin with access to Telx's extensive Financial Services community. As a colocation and interconnection client in Telx's strategically located data center in downtown Chicago, Javelin can now offer Telx's financial community high-performance connectivity to derivatives execution platforms for Interest Rate Swaps and Credit Default Swaps. Javelin offers both anonymous electronic and voice-hybrid methodologies for trade execution.

Enyx together with Custom Connect Microwave (CCMW) have delivered an innovative technology service enabling a low latency microwave link to be shared equally amongst multiple users. The appliance is able to divide the microwave pure layer 1 bandwidth into segments of 10 Mbps with the lowest possible latency.

GuavaTech, a leading managed service provider specializing in customized IT solutions for proprietary trading firms, investment banks, hedge funds, broker/dealers, and FCMs, today announced that it will begin offering proximity hosting and ultra-low latency connectivity solutions for CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) at the LD4 data center located in London, UK.

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that  CNSX Markets Inc. (CNSX Markets) has deployed a point of presence (PoP) in Equinix’s TR1 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Toronto, Canada.

TMX Atrium, provider of smarter infrastructure solutions for the financial community, today announced that The Order Machine (TOM) has migrated from its previous trading location in Stockholm to TMX Atrium’s new facilities in London.  From multiple trading sites, clients can now access TOM at its new production and back-up sites.  

FCM360, the leading provider of managed datacenter solutions for high-frequency, low-latency trading has expanded its footprint in the United Kingdom within the Equinix LD4 datacenter.

NTT Communications Corporation strengthens Hong Kong SAR’s strategic claim as Asia’s pre-eminent financial market and ICT Hub with the unveiling of the new Hong Kong Financial Data Centre (FDC™). Leveraging the company’s wide, ultra-low latency networks and close proximity to the data centre operations of regional exchanges, the purpose-built data centre offers top-notch IT and network infrastructure to address the growing needs for industries like finance and cloud business with the most stringent requirements. The Tier IV* ready FDC offers 100% uptime service level and unrivalled security measures to protect the mission-critical data assets of enterprises.

Low-Latency.com's Editor and Publisher Pete Harris and CFN Services' CEO Mark Casey discuss how to leverage a managed market data / market access platform to benefit your business.

Faced with fundamental shifts in the dynamics of the major capital markets, trading firms are looking to maintain low latency and increase agility, while reducing complexity and cost – especially when it comes to market data and market access. To introduce the issues and options related to market data infrastructure, this industry briefing discusses:

• Automated Trading Today: Change Brings Opportunity
• Market Data – Opportunities, Complexity and Challenges
• Alternative Approaches to Managing Market Data Infrastructure

S&P Capital IQ’s Real Time Solutions has extended its low latency connectivity and co-location services to Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), through its QuantLINK solution. Buy- and sell-side firms in the region will now have access to the offering, while global clients will benefit from an optimised data feed and order routing services.