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V-Tick

Solving the Problem of

Soaring market data rates
Growing latency in vendor feeds

The Fastest Delivery of Critical Market Data
The Essex Radez V-Tick network is engineered to deliver North American exchange data feeds through private connections to the source - no middleman, no consolidation, no hidden fees - simply the fastest access by a vendor of record with a 30+ year track record.

Co-location facilities at key market centers:

  • The Equinix NY4 data center in Secaucus, New Jersey. A major center for CBOE, Direct Edge, ICE, ISE, BOX, and others, co-location at the 340,000 square foot, carrier neutral, center has become a new industry standard.

  • The SAVVIS data center in Weehawken, New Jersey. Home to the market data distribution system and matching engine for both NYSE ARCA and BATS access to these all-electronic platforms has become a must have for those trading equities.

  • The Equinix Chicago data center at 350 East Cermak Road. Utilized by a large percentage of the futures trading community, this Equinix center is home to the CME's data distribution network and is the North American hub for Eurex.

In addition, Essex Radez has a presence in these other facilities:

  • The NASDAQ data center in Carteret, New Jersey. Through one of our partners, we also offer collocation and our own data services within the home of the NASDAQ matching engines.

  • The CBOE data center in Chicago. Essex Radez is also a recognized vendor of V-Tick market data services within the Chicago Board Options Exchange data center at 400 South LaSalle.

  • The NYSE data center in Mahwah, New Jersey. Essex Radez also has a presence at the new NYSE data center in Mahwah, New Jersey. This facility is home to the NYSE Matching Engines, including the source of the OPRA and consolidated listed equities feeds. The ARCA matching engine will also be moving here in 2011.

Historical Data When You Need It
Beyond the real-time exchange feeds and execution connections, Essex Radez can provide complete tick-history data (all trades, quotes, and administrative messages) for the feeds carried on our network.

A Choice of APIs
A number of our clients simply want raw feed access delivered in native exchange format but other seek different means of accessing data. For them, we offer a choice between our own KMD API and that of ticker-plant provider Exegy.

Our KMD API is an open source market data API library designed to process raw exchange feeds with the lowest possible latency. KMD uses a modular design to provide unparalleled flexibility in system configuration and functionality. Moreover, KMD hardware requirements and processor load are considerably less then competitive products. For additional information click here.

The Exegy API (www.exegy.com) provides a normalized interface across asset classes with a wide array of derived data fields and access to a consolidated order book and index calculation engine. Implanted as a hardware based ticker plant, latency in the Exegy system is less than 25 microseconds.

The choice is clear...
You can develop your own network of communication lines, data centers, and ticker plant technologies, bearing the costs and maintenance headaches that entails … or you can focus on trading strategies knowing that you have 24/7 support, a robust infrastructure, and the ability to change feed sets as business conditions evolve.

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