Telecoms
The specifications regarding the required telecommunications infrastructure vary according to the Participant's BOX trading activity (market maker versus simply routing client orders) and the technical connection selected (refer to API Specifications).
BOX network hubs or Points of Presence ("PoP") are available in Newark, NJ, New York, NY and Chicago, IL. BOX Participants may either connect directly to a BOX PoP via a point-to-point line or contract with a third-party network provider for connection to one or more of the BOX PoPs. Please contact boxmoc@boxexchange.com for further details or click here.
A partial list of independent network service providers who connect to the BOX network is provided below together with a brief description, supplied by the network provider, of the services offered. BOX does not endorse any of the firms listed below and BOX is not responsible for the services offered by these firms.
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Radianz develops and delivers network services tailored to the specific requirements of the world's financial markets. Radianz offers quick and easy distribution and access to a range of market services and participants - without the investment, effort and time required to establish point-to-point private connections. Its extranet and hosting services are used by trade execution, and order management firms, by ECNs and exchanges as well as clearing and settlement organisations. Radianz provides Extranet Services, FIX, STP Connectivity, Hosting Services and Voice Circuits. For additional information contact Brian Azevedo, Business Development Manager at (617) 235-9012 or brian.azevedo@bt.com. |
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Hibernia Atlantic is the largest, privately held, diverse transAtlantic submarine cable transport provider. Hibernia is a US, wholly-owned subsidiary of Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC). It is a TransAtlantic submarine cable and terrestrial cable network that offers over (70) redundant network Points of Presence (PoPs) throughout Canada, US, UK and mainland Europe on over 24,000 kilometers of network. Hibernia provides secure and diverse dedicated Ethernet and optical-level service up to GigE, 10G and LanPhy wavelengths and traditional Sonet/SDH services. In addition, Hibernia offers wholesale capacity prices, unparalleled support, flexibility and service. For more information on Hibernia Atlantic's cutting-edge network or to view their corporate video, please visit http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/. |
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Today's business market is fiercely competitive and constantly evolving. No matter what industry you're in, streamlining your business to reach the highest level of productivity while remaining cost-efficient is essential to maintaining and growing your business. Financial institutions need to quickly and securely access market data, communicate information and complete a transaction in real time. Unlike other providers, Optimum Lightpath built, owns and maintains a fully fiber optic network designed exclusively for business. With this powerful technology, we are able to provide innovative, carrier-grade communication services that give businesses the reliability, bandwidth and cost savings needed to operate efficiently and competitively in today's marketplace. For more information on how we can deliver low latency, high bandwidth connectivity, please visit: http://www.optimumlightpath.com/ |
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Reliance Globalcom Services, Inc., the enterprise business unit of Reliance Globalcom, is the leading provider of managed network and application delivery services for the global enterprise. Reliance Globalcom's custom data networking solutions empower businesses by delivering high performance, dynamic control, unmatched service quality, and rapid ROI. Enterprise customers worldwide take advantage of Reliance Globalcom's managed Ethernet services to enable voice, video and data convergence, data centralization and collaboration. Reliance Globalcom's specialized offerings and obsession with customer satisfaction ensure that the company anticipates our customers' every need. More than 1000 enterprise customers worldwide rely on Reliance Globalcom's high-performance managed services to improve their competitive advantage. Reliance Globalcom is a Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani company. |
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SAVVIS Communications, The Network That Powers Wall Street(SM), provides global network access to BOX's order and quote gateways and the outbound market gateways, including the native full-function HSVF feed. SAVVIS is a leader in providing the technology infrastructure and services for the world's largest market data providers, liquidity sources, and buyside/sellside institutions. For example, SAVVIS Financial Xchange(SM) network and hosting solutions deliver real-time financial applications to over 4,700 financial institutions in 45 countries. The unique architecture of Financial Xchange supports straight-through processing (STP), direct market data feeds, access to liquidity pools, order management, FIX messaging, video conferencing, and Voice over IP. For more information, contact Scott Wipper on (617) 737-8258 or (800) 728-8471. |
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Sector, Inc.® is the premier provider of data networking and data and voice communications solutions for the financial services industry. Through SFTI B2B, you can use existing SFTI connectivity to communicate with exchanges, market centers and content service providers with low latency and extremely high levels of resilience and reliability. Our vast networks, extranet, data center infrastructure and comprehensive connection options take data anywhere with speed, reliability and security. Trust the Strength the Markets Trust SM. Sector services use the strengths of our parent company, SIAC®, which provides the automated information and communications systems that support the NYSE Group SM, AMEX®, and the National Market System. For more information, contact Sector at 866-383-3315 or visit http://www.sectorinc.com/. |
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SIAC's Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructures ("SFTI") is a high capacity infrastructure that improves the overall resilience of the financial industry's data communications connectivity. This highly reliable infrastructure offers firms access to the trading, clearing and settlement, market data distribution and other services SIAC provides on behalf of most of the U.S. securities industry's exchanges and utilities. |
