Internet & WAN/LAN

The Financial SCP enables enterprises to benefit from fixed price, direct access into a number of leading financial exchanges, reducing the time it takes to send and receive market data.

This private connection ensures information delivery and retrieval is secure, affordable and resilient. Exchanges currently on the network include: the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Board Options Exchange and the Securities Industry Corporation (SIAC), the communications network that powers the New York Stock Exchange and American Stock Exchange. In addition, The Deutsche Boerse, Germany’s number one financial exchange, is also 'on.net'.

Additional exchanges are currently being investigated, which will also be delivered over the same single circuit.

The Financial Services Creation Platform enables access to high performance iSCSI storage systems, providing resilient, high capacity storage. This addresses today's increasingly complex data storage requirements without the cost implications of fibre channels. Running on Internet Protocol, it gives companies the flexibility to increase their storage capacity as and when needed.

We also have a comprehensive understanding of the various storage technologies that meet the requirements of Sarbanes Oxley, Basel II and the forthcoming MiFID regulations. There are five relevant technologies that can be deployed but the final choice of which one ensures conformity is a function of the circumstances of each case. Needless to say it is imperative that the correct one is chosen and that is where we come in. We are able to assess the requirements of each situation and advise on a solution that ensures that the one deployed does meet the compliance requirements.

A private network for the financial community, Comtact's Financial Service Creation Platform (Financial SCP) delivers:

• Fixed price, direct access into several of the world's leading financial exchanges.
• Access to storage systems which meet the requirements for compliance regulations.
• Access to all of the communication services that are hosted by Comtact including: Voice, Internet access, hosting, video conferencing and surveillance.

Access to Market Data Feeds and Clearing Houses and storage for voice calls are planned for the near future.

In everything that we do our aim is to facilitate a service that allows our clients to be more successful in their own markets. The Financial Market is no exception.

Whilst we appreciate that an 'industrial strength', highly resilient and ubiquitous network is important we also recognise that there are other things we can do to provide a competitive edge. For instance, having one of the lowest network latencies available is clearly an enormous advantage to our customers in their trading activities.

As well as providing clients fixed price access to International Exchanges, we are also in the midst of negotiating access for our clients to a variety of market data feeds. Moreover we recognise that for some customers having ready access to Clearing Houses is important and we will therefore shortly be making some announcements about connections we have enabled.

We talked elsewhere about providing compliance conforming storage for data but we also make available similar facilities for all voice traffic. The net result of course is the ability to provide a complete audit trail on both data and voice.

The Financial market is one that is important to us and we are constantly researching new services and enhancements that will provide our customers with a business advantage.

The TradingDesk & EtherBase combine to give you a dedicated pricing team with extensive market knowledge, that will provide you with quick and accurate pricing from anywhere in the world.

Features and Benefits

• A dedicated pricing team specific to your account: yourcompany@etherreach.com
• 24 hour pricing turnaround guarantee.
• Zoned pricing available in metro areas.
• Competitive pricing for off-net services.

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