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Accelerating a trend that began perhaps a couple of years ago, vendors of execution management systems, and of connectivity and co-lo services, are continuing to push into new trading opportunities, beyond the core equities markets of major financial centres. Indeed, a raft of news in recent days - as the business world gets going after the summer break - points to much activity in pushing the low-latency frontiers.

This new service, along with the recent overhaul of SIBE and the launch of its co-location service, places BME among the leading bourses in the world interms of technology infrastructure

Hibernia Atlantic, a provider of global capacity services, announces today that it is now an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Technology Partner supporting AWS Direct Connect. Amazon Web Services welcomes Hibernia as part of the AWS Partner Network to enhance availability of dedicated network connections for customers from their locations to AWS.

Hibernia Atlantic, a provider of global capacity services, announces that CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, is a new Point of Presence (PoP) on its Global Financial Network (GFN). Hibernia is now able to provide direct, ultra low latency connectivity up to 10 Gigabit Ethernet into CME Group’s new data center located in Aurora, Illinois.

Improved network infrastructure enables the platform to handle more transactions at faster speed.

Extends network coverage to 12 countries

TMX Atrium, provider of smarter infrastructure solutions for the financial community, today announced new low latency connectivity into Moscow from Stockholm.  The new connectivity path provides access to key data centres in Moscow to enable participants to trade the rapidly growing Russian market.

Miami International Securities Exchange ("MIAX") announced today that it has selected Cisco's ultra-low latency intelligent network infrastructure for the trading platform of the MIAX Options Exchange, a fully-electronic options exchange planning to commence operations in late September 2012, subject to SEC approval. MIAX's experienced technology team worked closely with Cisco Channel Partner, Continental Resources Inc., to develop an intelligent networking infrastructure to meet the unique demands of a high-speed trading environment. As a result, the MIAX Options Exchange trading platform was designed from the ground up to address the highly secure, functional and high-performance demands of the derivatives market.

Interxion Holding, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, has announced that Sinara Consultants, a leading software house to the financial marketplace, has relocated its hosted Market Data Platform to Interxion’s London data centre campus. Sinara has also moved many of its own development systems and test beds into Interxion’s London site.

Interactive Data Corporation, a leading global provider of managed ultra-low latency infrastructure and market data services designed to facilitate electronic trading, today announced the expansion of the Interactive Data 7ticks network to include a point-of-presence (POP) at a Q9 data center in the Toronto area.

Exponential-e, one of the UK’s most innovative technology providers announced today that it has added BATS Chi-X Europe, the largest pan-European equities trading venue by notional value traded and market share, to its increasing number of on-net financial data providers. Exponential-e will provide direct, ultra-low latency links into the trading platform.

BGC Partners ("BGC Partners" or "BGC"), a leading global brokerage company servicing the wholesale financial and property markets, today announced it has signed an agreement with Thesys Technologies ("Thesys"), to invest in the creation of high-speed microwave data networks for the financial community, starting with the fastest route between Illinois and New Jersey, designed to transmit critical trading data related to the futures, equities, fixed income and other markets, between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ("CME"), NASDAQ, BGC and ELX Futures data centers.

When Anova Technologies announced recently that it had deployed a wireless network linking NYSE Euronext to Direct Edge, one word was missing from its press release: microwave. That's because the connectivity specialist has gone in a different technology direction to the one in vogue right now as the basis for its wireless offerings.