Commerzbank Increases Speed and Bandwidth with a Direct Connection to the Services of Gruppe Deutsche Börse at Equinix IBX Data Center in Frankfurt

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>>Commerzbank Increases Speed and Bandwidth with a Direct Connection to the Services of Gruppe Deutsche Börse at Equinix IBX Data Center in Frankfurt

Foster City, CA/Frankfurt am Main, 11th December 2008 – Commerzbank AG, one of Germany`s leading banks is in a first mover role being the first major bank making use of the premium service solution provided by Gruppe Deutsche Börse with a direct connection to the systems of the stock exchange trading environment in an IBX® data center of Equinix (Germany) GmbH in Frankfurt.

With this measure Commerzbank is underlining its high demand for data quality in the financial trading business. The connection is increasing the bandwidth, therefore Commerzbank is enabled to gain faster access to market data and stock exchange relevant information. This lead is playing an important role in the financial trading business. The high reliability of the transactions stays secured. With its infrastructure Equinix is providing this reliability in the Equinix IBX data centre and is maintaining Commerzbank`s high technical and security relevant requirements for a connection to the services of Gruppe Deutsche Börse. Commerzbank’s business processes are supported by modern high performing IT infrastructures.

Commerzbank is setting a sign for future orientated thinking and acting by using the premium-offer of Gruppe Deutsche Börse being specifically designed for trading partners with increased transmission speed and bandwidth. In addition this access is enabling Commerzbank to rapidly implement new services from Gruppe Deutsche Börse in their own service portfolio on the technical side and sooner following innovation cycles continuing to move faster.

“Having Commerzbank as a customer in our Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Frankfurt is something special for us. We do have many years of experience working with an expanding global financial customer base that has already committed to our secure redundant infrastructure. The co-operation between Gruppe Deutsche Börse and Equinix creates an attractive synergy for the optimization of trading, based on our high availability infrastructure and innovative services of Gruppe Deutsche Börse”, comments Joerg Rosengart, General Manager – Germany for Equinix.

”The combined offer from Gruppe Deutsche Börse and Equinix provides Commerzbank with high data quality and high speed transfer which will directly benefit our customers, particularly as we face the prospect of increasing data volumes“, informs Dr. Peter Leukert, CIO of Commerzbank.

Equinix dedicated Financial eXchanges services congregate a community of common interest, consisting of capital market participants such as execution venues, buy and sell side firms, market data providers, technology utilities and network service providers, that locate operations within Equinix data centers in order to implement a high-performance, low latency connectivity infrastructure within a neutral environment. With these Equinix Financial eXchanges services and the high availability infrastructure behind it the company is ideally positioned, to maintain the complex demands of dense connectivity and low latency for transactions in a neutral environment that financial trading organizations demand. Equinix, Inc. is one of the major financial data center operators being specialized on the applications and solutions of banks and financial service providers. The company is operating high availability and neutral data centers in the world’s top ten financial markets.