QuantHouse completes its global proprietary fiber optic network by selecting Equinix datacenters in Chicago and Frankfurt
2 from Automated Trader Magazine
May 27th, 2008 - QuantHouse today announced that they have completed the implementation of their worldwide exchange interconnection infrastructure by selecting Equinix datacenters in Chicago and Frankfurt.
Pierre Feligioni, GM, QuantHouse: "QuantFEED provides global buy and sell side firms with the competitive advantage they are looking for to get sub-millisecond access to the source of multiple exchanges.”
By becoming part of the Equinix Financial eXchange community, QuantHouse is able to CAPTURE and STANDARDISE local exchange data feeds at the source leveraging its QuantFEEDHANDLER technology for ultimate low latency results. Leveraging the QuantHouse proprietary fiber optic network which interconnects exchange datacenters in Chicago, New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt, QuantHouse clients have this unique benefit to leverage the end-to-end, fully managed ultra low latency market data solution. This low latency feed known as QuantFEED, is designed for latency sensitive buy side and sell side firms.
QuantHouse is an independent provider of
end-to-end solutions including low latency market data technology, Algo trading
strategy development framework tools, infrastructure services and professional
services for systematic trading firms whose objective is to trade ahead.
Equinix Financial eXchange is a community
of common interest, consisting of capital market participants such as execution
venues, buy and sell side firms, market data providers, technology utilities
and network service providers, that locate operations within Equinix
datacentres in order to implement a high-performance, low latency connectivity
infrastructure within a neutral environment.
Equinix customers can directly exchange data within the same physical
location with strategic partners, customers and vendors, providing solutions
for their multi-network connectivity and high-performance datacentre needs.
Petrina Steele, Vice President for Business Development, Equinix: "We’re delighted to now add QuantHouse as a global client.”
Commenting on the announcement, Pierre Feligioni, QuantHouse General Manager and co-founder, said, “More and more global buy side and sell side firms are increasingly relying on QuantFEED, our end-to-end ultra-low latency market data solution. QuantFEED provides them the competitive advantage they are looking for to get sub-millisecond access to the source of multiple exchanges.”
“Our highly resilient and convenient platform datacenters are attracting a growing number of financial experts. We’ve already achieved considerable success with our major Equinix Financial eXchange solution in Europe, where we provide our customers with the fastest possible links to the world’s largest trading venues, and we’re delighted to now add QuantHouse as a global client.” said Petrina Steele, Equinix's Vice President for Business Development in Europe.
Stéphane Leroy, Head of Global Sales and
Marketing at QuantHouse, added,
"By locating our technical
infrastructures to capture and standardize market data within the exchange
datacenters, we’re able to interconnect together the heart of local exchanges
through our worldwide proprietary fiber optic network for ultimate performance.
Our clients are increasingly leveraging this unique value proposition to trade
ahead”.