Monday, June 15, 2009

Equinix Chosen by NYSE Liffe to Provide Faster Market Access for Frankfurt Customers

today's P/R:

>>FRANKFURT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, today announced that NYSE Liffe is now offering cross-connect access from Equinix’s International Business eXchange (IBX®) data center in Frankfurt (FR2). NYSE Liffe customers based in the Equinix Frankfurt-North data center can now leverage the Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure® (SFTI®) European network for lower latency access to the Liffe Connect global derivatives trading platform.

Back on February 2nd, we wrote:

>>Other very interesting strategic wins are being announced in Europe (this is taken from the “Winter 2008 edition of the eXchange for the Financial Sector” newsletter):

NYSE Euronext is pleased to announce its choice of Equinix as their new primary point of presence in Frankfurt. NYSE Euronext has chosen the Equinix data centre in Frankfurt as the location for their new POP in Frankfurt. The NYSE Euronext Frankfurt POP will go live in Q1 2009. In the following quarter NYSE Euronext plans to offer access to the Liffe market from the Equinix data centre via a LIFFE CONNECT gateway farm.

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