NASDAQ OMX Nordic Co-Location Services
In today’s marketplaces connectivity and accessibility are of essence for efficient securities transactions. Speed of response and latency are getting more and more important, especially when algorithmic and program trading methodologies form the base of your business. NASDAQ OMX Nordic offers customers of its marketplaces a solution to reduce network latency to a non-issue.
About the Service
NASDAQ OMX provides space to its customers not close but in the same datacenter where the central matching engine resides and operates. The customer will get a full or half dedicated cabinet where to place its servers and applications.
As the leader in trading and data technology for the financial industry, NASDAQ OMX has developed a co-location services program that provides:
• Ultra low latency connectivity to NASDAQ OMX’s trading systems
• A state-of-the-art data center facility
• A highly secure and access controlled environment
• All necessary power including redundant generation systems
• Air conditioned environment including raised floors with ventilation
• Remote technical support from NASDAQ OMX’s highly trained staff
NASDAQ OMX encourages co-location customers to use ITCH IP Multicast. Find out more about the advantages in this presentation
NASDAQ OMX provides a number of add-on services to meet co-location customer needs:
Premium Co-lo Access Service:
The Premium Co-lo Access Service is built on low latency technology that enables faster access to market data and reduces order entry latency.
Highlights:
- Lowest possible OUCH order entry round trip latency
- Lowest possible Genium INET roundtrip latency
- INET Market data via ITCH IP Multicast only
- Supports both RJ45 (1G only) or fiber handoffs (1G and 10G)
- Requires E-BGP
From September 2012, customers will have the option to connect also via a new 10G Premium Access Network. The 10G access is limited to INET OUCH order entry and INET ITCH multicast market data.
The new 10G access network is expected to reduce the average roundtrip latency on order entry by more than 20% compared to the existing 1G Peremium Access network.
Technical specifications:
1G - Premium Co-lo Network Presentation INET
1G - Premium Co-lo Network Presentation Genium INET (Updated 2011-12-19)
10G - Premium Co-lo Network Presentation for INET (Updated 2012-05-28, from Sept 2012)
NODE Access Points in London:
The NODE product offering provides customers with control channel connectivity to the colocation space within our Nordic datacenter facility from our current Points of Presence in London (Equinix-Slough/LD4 and Interxion) and Frankfurt (Equinix FR2).
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Dedicated Gateway Service:
NASDAQ OMX Nordic provides customers with the opportunity to access liquidity of the Nordic marketplaces via a production gateway dedicated uniquely to the customer and avoid the potential impact of other members trading activity.
Customers subscribing to this service are granted exclusive use of a production gateway subject to the same service levels of any other production gateway.
The service is available for Genium INET OMnet and FIX gateways.
Genium INET Dedicated Gateways can be accessed both from NASDAQ OMX Nordic Co-location Service Area and/or via external connections.
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Remote Hands Service:
NASDAQ OMX Nordic provides Remote Hands Service for a variety of on-site technical support functions such as:
• Power cycling of equipment;
• Patching and plugging in cabling and circuits;
• Observing, describing or reporting on display indicators;
• Diagnosis and repairs as instructed by the Customer;
• Configurations of hardware components
• Swapping hardware components with customer-supplied spares or upgrades;
• Troubleshooting heat related issues as instructed by the Customer;
• Returning defective equipment to the manufacturer or customer
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Cabinet Reservation Program:
The Cabinet Reservation Program (CRP) gives Co-location customers the ability to reserve cabinets and power at a reduced rate allowing customers to plan for future growth and reserve space as close to their existing cabinets as possible. Reservation options may have an open duration or an agreed expiry date.
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Managed Co-location Hosting:
With the Managed Co-location Hosting Service, NASDAQ OMX manages and operates the customer’s Co-location servers up to and including operating systems as well as Co-location network equipments. The service included also surveillance of the Co-location servers and network equipments as well as backup of application and non-application data.
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Co-location @ Disaster Recovery Site
Co-location customers can now enhance their Business Continuity plans by purchasing, at a lower price, cabinets and power at NASDAQ OMX Nordic Disaster Recovery (DR) site. In the event of unavailability of our primary site or site fail-over, customers subscribing to this service will be able to continue running their latency critical business from cabinets located at the DR site and with the same service levels as provided to the primary co-location site.
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Cages
NASDAQ OMX offers a dedicated steel-mesh cage in the Co-location Service Area based on your space and power needs. NASDAQ OMX experienced Co-location professionals can configure a custom Co-location cage to accommodate a wide array of free standing equipment and give you an additional layer of protection
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Storage Facility
NASDAQ OMX offers cold storage facility in the Data Centre to the Co-location customers. The storage space is equipped with features such as: smoke detection units, fire suppression systems and tightly controlled access.
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For commercial contact and price list: Richard Gaudy, Head of CoLo & Access Services Transaction Services Nordics, richard.gaudy@nasdaqomx.com, +46 8 405 6103 or your Key Account Manager
For technical information please contact:
Richard Gaudy, richard.gaudy@nasdaqomx.com, +46 8 405 6103
Afsaneh Rezaie: afsaneh.rezaie@nasdaqomx.com, +46 8 405 7175
Per Fröling, Head of Co-location and Access services (EMEA): per.froling@nasdaqomx.com, +46 8 405 6434
