Archive for January, 2010

Interactive Data Corp. Debuts Low-Latency Service

Thursday, January 28th, 2010
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Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, says its “Real-Time Market Data and Trading Solutions Group” has launched a new version of its “Client Site Processor.”  The CSP supports the delivery of “PlusFeed,” Interactive Data’s low-latency global datafeed used by financial institutions worldwide to power algorithmic and electronic trading applications.
Interactive Data says market data volumes increased by at least 90 percent annually for four of the last five years. The Options Price Reporting Authority also has projected volumes of 3.2 million messages per second for January 2010, rising by nearly 30 percent to 4.1 million in January 2011.
The new version of the CSP is designed to handle up to 9.4 million messages per second, and can  help clients improve financial message processing performance by up to 70 percent.
The new CSP is engineered to accommodate full OPRA and depth of market data and keep pace with current estimates of anticipated volume growth until the first half of 2011, Interactive Data says.
The CSP also can help PlusFeed clients control costs by supporting a compact output format that reduces the server’s output by a ratio of approximately 7:1, the company says.
The new CSP also supplies “best-of-both” logic with a new line arbitration capability in which clients can feed two lines into the CSP to help minimize gaps caused by network or telecommunications problems.
These gaps could result in missing data in the sequence of the packets.
This functionality is also available to clients using the high-speed Titan Data Network-Multicast.
That real-time data distribution network is designed to handle up to six million messages per second and to help clients save additional milliseconds and improve latency.

Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, says its “Real-Time Market Data and Trading Solutions Group” has launched a new version of its “Client Site Processor.”  The CSP supports the delivery of “PlusFeed,” Interactive Data’s low-latency global data feed used by financial institutions worldwide to power algorithmic and electronic trading applications.

Interactive Data says market data volumes increased by at least 90 percent annually for four of the last five years. The Options Price Reporting Authority also has projected volumes of 3.2 million messages per second for January 2010, rising by nearly 30 percent to 4.1 million in January 2011.

The new version of the CSP is designed to handle up to 9.4 million messages per second, and can  help clients improve financial message processing performance by up to 70 percent.

The new CSP is engineered to accommodate full OPRA and depth of market data and keep pace with current estimates of anticipated volume growth until the first half of 2011, Interactive Data says.

The CSP also can help PlusFeed clients control costs by supporting a compact output format that reduces the server’s output by a ratio of approximately 7:1, the company says.

The new CSP also supplies “best-of-both” logic with a new line arbitration capability in which clients can feed two lines into the CSP to help minimize gaps caused by network or telecommunications problems.

These gaps could result in missing data in the sequence of the packets.

This functionality is also available to clients using the high-speed Titan Data Network-Multicast.

That real-time data distribution network is designed to handle up to six million messages per second and to help clients save additional milliseconds and improve latency.

–By Gary Kim


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Thomson Reuters Extends Low-Latency News Service

Thursday, January 28th, 2010
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Thomson Reuters has launched a new low-latency service providing high-frequency traders in London and Chicago with the fastest access to market-moving machine readable news content.
Thomson Reuters NewsScope Direct offers microsecond delivery of highly structured news and economic data which enables clients to buy and sell financial instruments before the information moves the market.
Housed in Thomson Reuters London and Chicago hosting centers, NewsScope Direct allows clients to easily incorporate news and events into a variety of trading strategies. Customers can connect to the newsfeed from their own data centers or leverage Thomson Reuters proximity hosting solution.This will benefit high frequency trading firms operating in the FX and Futures markets which can move sharply in response to key news and economic data.
Today’s launch is an expansion of the service available to clients in New York and the company’s beta site operating in Washington, D.C. In addition to the live launch of Thomson Reuters Hosting facility in Chicago, which is the next step in Thomson Reuters infrastructure transformation that delivers clients direct access to the markets in which they trade.

Thomson Reuters has launched a new low-latency service providing high-frequency traders in London and Chicago with the fastest access to market-moving machine readable news content.

Thomson Reuters NewsScope Direct offers microsecond delivery of highly structured news and economic data which enables clients to buy and sell financial instruments before the information moves the market.

Housed in Thomson Reuters London and Chicago hosting centers, NewsScope Direct allows clients to easily incorporate news and events into a variety of trading strategies.

Customers can connect to the newsfeed from their own data centers or leverage Thomson Reuters proximity hosting solution.This will benefit high frequency trading firms operating in the FX and Futures markets which can move sharply in response to key news and economic data.

The service is an expansion of the features available to clients in New York and the company’s beta site operating in Washington, D.C.

–Gary Kim


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Vector Deploys Performance-Assured Ethernet Using Accedian

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
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Leading provider delivers quality-assured, latency-optimized business services

Montreal, Canada; January 20, 2010 – Accedian Networks ™, the leading provider of Packet Performance Assurance ™ solutions for telecom, cable and wireless communications providers, announced today that Vector Communications has selected and deployed the company’s switch-free Ethernet solutions to deliver premium, fibre-based services to enterprises throughout Auckland, New Zealand. Complementing the VectorFibre legacy-free network, Accedian Networks’ MetroNID® units enable fully assured Ethernet services with unrivalled performance and quality of service (QoS), allowing Vector to deliver mission-critical business interconnect, remote storage and Internet access.

Accedian Networks’ unique Fast-Thru™ technology provides advanced networking and monitoring within microseconds, eliminating the delays switches and routers normally add to customer traffic. Installed directly at the customer premises, MetroNID units’ Ethernet service creation features are enhanced by hardware-based traffic shaping, policy enforcement, switch-free aggregation and integrated monitoring capabilities.

“Accedian solutions give us the capability to offer MEF-compliant, managed Layer 2 services with functionality not previously seen in the marketplace,” explained, Maxine Elliott, General Manager of Vector Communications. “The adherence to Ethernet OAM standards allows us to monitor and report on traffic in-band, with service management features traditionally only found in a Layer 3 environment. This allows us to provide Ethernet services compliant with demanding Service Level Agreements (SLAs), while ensuring the best possible QoS end-to-end using the units’ real-time traffic handling features. This opens up new markets for Vector’s customers, who can now seamlessly migrate legacy TDM services and mobile backhaul applications to an IP infrastructure.”

Ethernet services will be managed by Accedian’s Vision EMS™, a cross-functional workflow automation and element management system (EMS) that allows new services to be installed and provisioned within minutes, permitting Vector Communications to quickly deliver and scale premium Ethernet services throughout New Zealand’s major metro region.

“Vector Communications represents an emerging group of service providers focused on delivering premium packet-based services over fibre-rich networks,” explained Patrick Ostiguy, President & CEO of Accedian Networks. “Enterprises and mobile applications require the bandwidth Ethernet offers, but can’t tolerate inconsistent quality of service. Our solutions ensure peak performance while providing complete visibility end-to-end, ensuring Vector’s customers will always benefit from the best Ethernet has to offer.”

Accedian Networks’ solutions are deployed by over 150 service providers worldwide. Maintaining Accedian’s reputation for excellence in customer service, Vector Communications will be supported by Vicom, a certified Accedian solution distributor, and the largest independent test and measurement equipment and service provider serving New Zealand, Australia and the South West Pacific region.

Video case studies of Accedian Networks’ technology in high-performance Ethernet applications are available for on-demand viewing on Accedian.com. Latest product introductions and announcements are streamed regularly through the EtherNEWS blog, on Twitter.com/accedian, and at Accedian.com/facebook.


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