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May 21, 2012
Renaissance Capital to Offer Connectivity to Emerging &Frontier Markets via SunGard Global Network

Renaissance Capital, an emerging markets investment bank, has joined the SunGard Global Network (SGN) trading community. Renaissance Capital will be able to provide brokerage services for the Russian markets to the more than 2,000 asset managers and 530 brokers linked by SunGard’s international trading network.

May 18, 2012
Juniper Networks Enables Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing to Achieve Ultra Low-Latency Trading

Juniper Networks, the industry leader in network innovation, today announced that a carrier-class switching infrastructure based on the Juniper Networks QFabric architecture will be deployed at a new data center being built by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx). The new Hosting Services Data Center, scheduled for completion by the third quarter of 2012, is designed to provide exchange participants with equal, ultra-low latency access to HKEx markets and information.

May 17, 2012
NASDAQ OMX Data Center Launches Express Connect for Co-Lo Clients

The NASDAQ OMX Group, today announced the launch of Express Connect, a low latency, point-to-point network solution offering connectivity from the NASDAQ OMX Data Center in the U.S. to major financial trading and co-location venues in New York, New Jersey, Chicago and Canada.

May 17, 2012
NYSE Technologies Introduces the Capital Markets Community Platform to Europe

NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext, today announced the global expansion of its successful Capital Markets Community Platform into Europe. Operating from NYSE Euronext’s European Liquidity Centre in Basildon (UK), the cloud based Community Platform was designed and developed in partnership with leading computing experts EMC and VMware.

May 16, 2012
euNetworks Latest To Tap Ciena 6500

Ciena has been in the news a bit of late, with its 6500 packet optical platform being adopted by several network providers, most recently euNetworks for its 100 gigabit upgrade.

May 16, 2012
euNetworks Rolls Out 100G Capable Networks Across Europe

euNetworks Group, today announced an upgrade to its European long haul transport platform, delivering a 100 Gigabit (G) capable network to market. euNetworks has invested in this next generation of network due to customer demand, both for greater capacity and 100G circuits. The Company has selected Ciena as its equipment supplier and deployed Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform with WaveLogic coherent optical processors. This platform enables a simple upgrade to 100G transmission and beyond without any network infrastructure changes.

May 16, 2012
Zayo Deploys Low Latency Route Between Chicago and Seattle

Zayo Group announces it is enhancing its low latency service between Seattle and Chicago. The improved performance on the route will give Financial, Content and Carrier customers a material latency reduction from what is currently available.

May 15, 2012
MarketPrizm to Provide Ultra-Low Latency Access to GETCO Execution Services Europe

MarketPrizm, a leading provider of market data and trading infrastructure services, today announced it will provide hosting and connectivity solutions for financial institutions seeking access to GETCO Execution Services Europe (GES Europe), GETCO’s centrally cleared broker crossing network for European equities.

May 15, 2012
Perseus Telecom Selects Ciena to Support Trans-Atlantic Trading Network

Ciena Corporation, the network specialist, today announced that Perseus Telecom, a global provider of connectivity, has selected Ciena’s equipment, software and services to build an end-to-end, ultra low-latency network between the U.S. and Europe. Combining metro networks in the global financial hubs of New York City, New Jersey, London and Frankfurt, as well as a trans-Atlantic submarine connection, the resulting ultra low-latency network enables Perseus to offer its customers one of the most direct and lowest latency services between the U.S. and Europe.

May 14, 2012
Orange Business Services - Trading Solutions Provides High-Performance Network Infrastructure to Fidessa

Orange Business Services - Trading Solutions, the leader in voice and electronic trading infrastructure and services for the trading communities today announced a new deal with Fidessa group, a provider of high-performance trading, investment management and information solutions for the world’s financial community. Under this deal, Fidessa clients can now use Trading Solutions’ financial extranet, TCSnet, directly from Fidessa's European Data Centres to satisfy their demanding high performance, highly resilient global connectivity needs.

May 14, 2012
Sidera Networks Extends Its Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency Network Internationally

Sidera Networks, the premier provider of fiber optic-based network solutions, announces the availability of low latency connectivity from the New York Metro market to Toronto, Canada and London, England. By extending its Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency Network internationally, Sidera provides a strategic advantage to financial services firms, exchanges, and other high bandwidth customers who value low latency for applications such as electronic trading and real-time content distribution. The new low latency routes also provide diversity from Sidera’s existing routes to Toronto and London.

May 14, 2012
TMX Atrium Adds Canadian Market Data Feeds to Equinix NY4

TMX Atrium, provider of smarter infrastructure solutions for the financial community, today announced that it has expanded its infrastructure and is delivering Canadian market data into the Equinix NY4 data centre in Secaucus, New Jersey.

May 11, 2012
ULLINK Provides Certified DMA to SBI JAPANNEXT

Ullink, a global provider of low latency connectivity and trading software and services has extended its connectivity offering to SBI Japannext to serve investors of the leading Japanese proprietary trading system.

May 10, 2012
Savvis Launches Docklands Data Centre to Service Growing Demand from Financial Services Sector

Savvis, a CenturyLink company and global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, today announced the availability of a new data centre in London Docklands. The new facility offers the opportunity for long-term expansion and will complement Savvis' existing European locations in the London area - Docklands, Slough and Reading - and Frankfurt, Germany.

May 9, 2012
Lightower Announces Major Expansions of Fiber Network in Central and Northern New Jersey

Lightower Fiber Networks, the premier metro fiber and bandwidth provider in the Northeast, announced today several major expansions of its industry-leading all-fiber network in Central and Northern New Jersey. In total, Lightower is adding over 100 route miles of new fiber network throughout the counties of Bergen, Hudson, Essex, Morris, Middlesex, and Mercer.

May 8, 2012
FXall Extends and Expands Hosting Agreement with Savvis

Savvis, a CenturyLink company and global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, today announced that FXall, the leading independent electronic foreign exchange platform, has renewed its hosting and infrastructure services agreement with Savvis and will take additional data center space to accommodate client demand and ongoing market growth.

May 3, 2012
Fixnetix Announces Connectivity to London Metal Exchange (LME) Expanding to 85 Markets Worldwide

Fixnetix announced today connectivity to the LME (London Metal Exchange) is now available as part of the Fixnetix 85 markets ultra-low latency global infrastructure for market data, trading and risk control. The relationship indicates algorithmic trading and electronic trading are on the rise whilst exchanges are recognising the positive impact on volumes. Just recently, LME publicly noted an upgraded trading platform for stronger performance and to respond better to the record breaking order flow from the algorithmic trading space.

May 3, 2012
IDC Global Joins CME Group’s Co-Location Service Provider Partner Program as a Provider of Secure Cloud and Low Latency Connectivity Services

IDC Global, a subsidiary of GBS Enterprises, a leading provider of secure cloud computing and low latency network and Internet services, announced today that they will be taking space within the CME Co-Location Facility as a provider of cloud computing solutions and low latency network services.

May 2, 2012
TMX Atrium Increases Swedish Market Access with Addition of Nordic Growth Market

TMX Atrium, provider of smarter infrastructure solutions for the financial community, today announced that Nordic Growth Market (NGM) is available as part of TMX Atrium’s global community. NGM is the stock exchange for Nordic growth companies and the inclusion of this venue now delivers access to these important equity and derivative markets for TMX Atrium participants.

May 1, 2012
Fibertech Networks Diversely Builds Fiber to DuPont Fabros Technology's New Jersey Data Center

Fibertech Networks, a leading provider of metro-based fiber optic network services to customers in the Eastern and Central United States, today announced it has completed its diverse fiber optic connection into DuPont Fabros Technology's ("DFT") New Jersey data center ("NJ1") located in Piscataway, New Jersey. This complements Fibertech's strategic direction of bringing fiber directly into NJ1 to offer its customers high-speed connectivity and low latency solutions.

May 1, 2012
NYSE Technologies and Americas Trading Group Streamline Access to Latin American Markets

NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext, and Americas Trading Group (ATG) are pleased to announce the production use of their high-performance order routing and market-data platform offering the global trading community low-latency access to the key trading venues in Latin America. Leveraging NYSE Technologies’ Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI), the network connection delivers the lowest possible latency between New York and Sao Paulo.

April 27, 2012
IPC Financial Markets Network Continues to Invest and Expand in European Markets

IPC Systems, a leading provider of voice and electronic trading communications solutions to the global capital markets, has today announced the completion of the latest phase of investment in its European network, reaffirming its commitment to this region. The global financial markets network optimisation programme has been built around connectivity into new exchanges and markets – including NASDAQ OMX Nordic and Turkey - as well as providing upgraded and extended routes to Russia.

April 27, 2012
NTT Communications Launches New Data Centers in Singapore and Malaysia

NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), a global leader in providing ICT services announced on April 27 the official inauguration of its Singapore Serangoon Data Center and Malaysia Cyberjaya 3 Data Center, the former of which will serve financial-services companies and similar enterprises that require high-power, low-latency networks and stable, secure infrastructure on which to build private clouds.

April 26, 2012
Connectivity and Co-Lo Roundup: CFN, Colt, Interxion, SIX, Thomson Reuters ...

It's TradeTech time in chilly and soggy London (though I am happily writing this from sunny, 90-degree Austin) - which means a deluge of press releases that is a Big Data problem in itself. Here are some highlights, focusing on connectivity, co-lo and a bit of cloud.

April 26, 2012
Equinix Selected for Global Roll-out of BT Radianz Venue Services

Equinix, a provider of global data center services, today announced that BT, a leading provider of connectivity, hosting and managed services solutions, has selected Equinix data centers for the roll-out of BT Radianz Venue, a cloud-based high-performance suite of services designed to enhance BT’s proximity hosting capabilities and provide the lowest optimal latency and interconnectivity between trading venues throughout the world’s top financial markets.