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BT thas expanded its Radianz Ultra Access connectivity service to London, providing sub-one millisecond access to a number of market data and execution venues, including Turquoise, Chi-X Europe and BATS Europe.

Low latency messaging vendor PrismTech has announced the availability of OpenSplice DDS Open Source on OpenSplice.org. OpenSplice.org now hosts the forge supporting the OpenSplice DDS development Community, providing access to the source code repository, pre-built binary distributions for Linux and Windows, and also hosting for other open source projects related to OpenSplice DDS.

This month’s bulletin from the Financial Information Forum (FIF) finds that CQS hit a new record of 88,393 messages per second (mps) over a five second interval, up 6% from the previous month.

Following its launch in July last year, the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has gained another participant for its co-location service programme in the form of Deutsche Bank's Autobahn Equity business within its Global Markets division. The service, which launched with 12 founder subscribers, provides high speed data delivery to participants with a view to minimising latency to the Australian equity market.

Connectivity provider Atrium Network has signed data vendor Activ Financial as the first client of its Exchange Ring service, which provides low latency access to European MTFs and exchanges.

Proprietary options trading firm Wolverine Trading has tapped OneMarketData for its OneTick Database to provide tick data management and analytics. OneTick collects and processes millions of ticks per second on a single CPU and archives billions of ticks per day globally, providing uniform access to all tick data, up to and including the latest tick.

Latency monitoring specialist Correlix has announced an OEM partnership with MicroStrategy to sell the vendor's Business Intelligence (BI) software as part of its Latency Intelligence suite. Version 1.9 will provide real-time monitoring and measurement capabilities to enable decision making based on latency dashboards and post day trade latency analytics. Traders will have access to historic and trend reporting, and the ability to analyse additional trading dimensions that are impacted by latency as well as investigate trends to optimise high frequency trading strategies.

Messaging appliance vendor Tervela has teamed with Volante Technologies to offer the Volante Designer for Tervela, a pre-integrated feature that combines Volante's data management tools with Tervela’s Open Data Framework. The combination is currently being tested by a major Wall Street investment firm, the company says.

IBM working with TD Securities has unveiled what it claims is a "revolutionary prototype of the world’s fastest automated options trading system." The prototype combines IBM’s InfoSphere Streams offering and its Blue Gene/P supercomputer, and was found to be capable of handling data at 21 times the speed of Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA), the world’s single largest market data feed, while maintaining low end-to-end latencies.