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BT Extends Radianz Base with Move into Interxion’s London Data Centre
BT’s decision to deploy a range of BT Radianz services at Interxion’s Brick Lane, City of London data centre marks the company’s second move into a carrier neutral collocation data centre in London following a deal to run services out of Equinix data centres, including a London location, in April last year. The company says…
S&P Capital IQ Details First Data Service Using Real-Time Technology Acquired with QuantHouse
S&P Capital IQ has gone live with its first data solution based on real-time technology for exchange and market data distribution acquired with QuantHouse in April 2012. The company’s consolidated financial data feed has been up and running since early March and offers normalised, real-time global content from 110 exchanges that can be accessed using…
Victory Snaps Up Sailfish; Expands to New Geographies, Asset Classes
Chicago-based Victory Networks, which provides co-location and technology services to boutique trading firms, has acquired New York City’s SailFish Systems in order to expand its services into new geographies and asset classes. Driving the combination are the technology needs of a growing number of startups being created by algorithmic traders leaving major players. These new…
TBricks Taps QuantLINK and QuantFEED for Hosted Trading Service
Trading system TBricks has rolled out a managed, hosted variant of its automated trading software, and has partnered with S&P Capital IQ to provide market connectivity and data. TBricks OnDemand has been rolled out in Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Chicago. TBricks provides tools to allow manual and low-latency automated trading in the global markets, including options…
Towards Intelligent Trading: Anova Rolls Microwave to DC News Hub
Anova Technologies is taking control of a microwave wireless network connecting Equinix’s key economic news distribution hub in Washington, DC to Nasdaq OMX’s data centre in Carteret, NJ. In so doing, it’s directly connecting news sources at lowest latency into the trading markets, allowing firms to trade from signals themselves, and not from responding to…
Latency – All About A, B and C (for Compute)
I often describe latency as the time it takes to move data from point A to point B, and/or the time taken to process that data at points A and B. I think it’s true to say that the majority of content on this site is about moving data from A to B. But processing…
Perseus Beats Rivals to Live London to Frankfurt Microwave Service
Perseus Telecom has announced that it has been in live operation since last October with a London to Frankfurt microwave service linking key marketplaces in each financial centre. The announcement comes as rival Colt Technology Services confirmed to Low-Latency.com that its microwave service – based on a network built by Custom Connect MW – is…
Anova Readies Hybrid Laser/Millimetre-wave Low-Latency Network for Reliability
Anova Technologies has teamed with AOptix to roll out low-latency networks based on an integrated combination of laser-through-air and millimetre wave technologies. The combination provides the low latency benefits of emerging wireless networks, with the reliability of fibre optic communications, making it attractive to algorithmic and high frequency trading operations. Under their agreement, Chicago-based Anova will…
Verdande and ITRS Link Provides Early Warning for System Outages
Continuing to work with application monitoring solutions, case-based reasoning specialist Verdande Technologies has forged a partnership with ITRS Group in order to create an “early warning system for potential trading outages, system failures or other latency-impacting events.” The deal involves Verdande linking its Edge platform with ITRS’s Geneos in order to leverage data points collected…
Q&A: January’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
It’s a new year, and it brings with it new questions from the IntelligentTradingTechnology.com community … Q: What does the potential acquisition of NYSE Euronext by IntercontinentalExchange mean for the exchange group’s NYSE Technologies unit? A: Ah, an easy one to begin 🙂 Well, it’s going to take a few months for the transaction to close,…