New York Stock Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange: Do you know what the single most important product that keeps things ticking over is? Data Cabling. Yes, Technology is the most important asset and the only real enabler at the New York Stock Exchange. This extraordinary Trading Platform deals in 1.6 billion shares every day. There are more than ten thousand Data cabling and Voice circuits connected to the trading floor. All trades are completed electronically and there are three thousand discreet systems at the Data Cabling centre.
Secure financial transactions are literally built into the infrastructure at the world’s leading market and it’s controlled by Global Connectivity and the SFTI – the “Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure”. The building is also home to two fully redundant data centres and five thousand flat screens for the brokers. The establishment uses up to ten miles of data cabling. That’s the least that is required to match the capacity of the wireless network on the Trading Floor.
The SFTI is the business charged with keeping access to the network and general infrastructure of the New York Stock Exchange up and running. They offer complete “software-as-service” and a complete choice of data cabling technologies. They choose to rent electronic trading capabilities rather than run the system “in house.” The company is closely allied to the exchanges at “Euronext,” which always keeps up with the latest technological advances. This is the company that offers businesses access to SIAC for the New York Stock Exchange and uses the infrastructure to carry what’s known as “Order traffic” and general financial data to other Exchanges. Quite a feat!