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TELEHOUSE America (www.telehouse.com), the United States’ leading provider of dedicated data centers, international Internet exchanges and managed IT services, announces today that AboveNet, Inc., a leading provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, has extended its low-latency fiber optic network in TELEHOUSE America’s New York facilities, providing interconnectivity between its 25 Broadway and 7 Teleport data centers in Manhattan and Staten Island, respectively. In addition to connectivity within TELEHOUSE’s New York City facilities, AboveNet’s network provides low-latency connectivity solutions, critical for financial markets and media content delivery in major data center and colocation facilities in the tri-state area.

Latency - and minimising it - isn't just a focus among liquidity venues in the New York metro area. North of the border, recent developments at TMX Group and Chi-X Canada demonstrate efforts to make those markets more competitive in what's becoming a global marketplace.

Interactive Data’s agreement to acquire Chicago-based high performance trading infrastructure specialist 7ticks LLC marks a strategic initiative to take advantage of what the company sees as perhaps an 18-month window of low latency investment opportunity. The acquisition gives a much-needed boost to Interactive Data’s low latency delivery strategy.

7ticks, a leading provider of low-latency managed services for the financial trading sector, today announced it will leverage trading performance hardware vendor, Endace. 7ticks will now be able to measure market data trade latency with 100% packet capture accuracy using software solutions from the recently formed alliance with Correlix and Race Team.

Corvil, a leading provider of electronic trading and market data latency management systems, announced that Deutsche Börse Systems, the IT subsidiary of Deutsche Börse AG, has successfully deployed a precision latency monitoring and reporting service for Xetra and Eurex market participants that provides for the first time a full range of latency statistics based on microsecond distribution measurements for both order and market data on Deutsche Börse's new data interfaces Enhanced Broadcast Solution and Enhanced Transaction Solution. This latency monitoring and reporting service achieves another industry first by providing normalized latency ranking tables for a specific market participant's trading session relative to all other peer trading sessions in the same reporting period. The latency distribution measurements underpinning Deutsche Börse's cash market Xetra and derivatives market Eurex service are based on Corvil's Latency Management System - CorvilNet 5.2.

Integral Development Corporation (www.integral.com), today announced an end-to-end hosted solution designed specifically to address the needs of algorithmic trading firms in foreign exchange. Delivered On Demand, Integral’s solution provides everything a systematic trading firm requires to run its algorithms. From the machines, to the network, to applications, access to liquidity and APIs, Integral delivers a one-stop solution to get firms from trading model to live trading as quickly as possible. Co-located in data centers with FX Grid, Integral’s global inter-institutional connectivity and trading network, the service virtually eliminates latency. Clients have the option of using their own proprietary hardware or lease managed blade servers from Integral. Both options allow customers to reside in managed enclosures run by Integral. Users can deploy their own proprietary applications and access liquidity through the FX Inside API, or take advantage of FX Inside HD, Integral’s ultra-low latency version of FX Inside Professional EMS (Execution Management System).

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. today announced that it has extended its co-operation with Verizon Business. Through the two companies' new agreements, NASDAQ OMX is reinforcing its global open connectivity strategy as well as supporting the expansion of its world-leading co-location services offering for its U.S. exchanges and markets. The agreements extend an existing relationship under which Verizon Business provides the exchange company with professional services, unified communications and corporate network services.

euNetworks Group Limited, a provider of mission-critical, high-performance networking solutions in Europe, announced that CONET Services AG selected euNetworks’ euConnect solution to offer ultra-low latency connectivity to customers between key sites. This partnership will ensure CONET customers can benefit from the availability of high quality, ultra-low latency Ethernet connectivity between CONET and other key Exchanges, Trading Houses and Datacentres.

Atrium Network, provider of smarter connectivity for the financial community, announced today that ACTIV Financial, a global provider of low-latency market data solutions, is extending its connectivity to Atrium Network to consume and distribute CME Group real-time data across the platform. CME Group is the largest and most diverse derivatives marketplace that includes CME, the Chicago Board of Trade, NYMEX and COMEX.

Switch and Data, a leading provider of network-neutral data center and Internet exchange services, announced today that CFN Services, a leading ultra low-latency network and custom fiber optic network integrator in the financial industry, has joined Switch and Data’s GeoReach partnership program. CFN will provide clients with turnkey or custom-designed, low latency interconnections to multiple regional exchanges from Switch and Data’s New York and Toronto Financial EcoCentersSM. CFN FiberSource(r) Advisor provides professional services to assist financial firms in their regional or global network design, planning, and strategy to enhance their individual electronic trading strategies.

RTS Realtime Systems Group, a leading global trading solutions provider, and Fortis Clearing announced today that they are the first trading solutions provider and clearing firm respectively to receive certification to offer clients access to the new equity trading system of the Singapore Exchange Ltd. (SGX).

NTT America, a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, today announced it will provide data center and connectivity services to ACTIV Financial, a leading global provider of fully managed low-latency market data solutions.