Over the last five months, Deutsche Boerse Systems has successfully upgraded its telecommunication backbone network that interconnects major international financial centres worldwide.
The upgrade meets the rising demands for highest data throughput and ultra low latency which is of particular relevance to algorithmic trading. The upgraded backbone network provides to DeutscheBoerses trading systems Eurex and Xetra as well as for external customers and partners.
Based on the enhanced network, Eurex will offer its new service Eurex Transaction Service in April, a faster streamlined access to the Eurex trading system for high-frequency trading strategies.
Deutsche Boerse Systems has focused on upgrading the links between majorEuropean and US financial centres. The minimum capacity was quadrupledand is now set at 1.25 Gbit/s, serving the markets New York, Chicago, Paris, Amsterdam, Milan and Dublin. For London based customers the capacity has increased to 5 Gbit/s, this enables transmission of the entire content of an audio CD in just one second.
The new backbone network continues using elaborate design principles, suchas exclusive redundant links, different telecommunication carriers and nosingle point of failures. The design also encompasses a completely diversegeographical routing, including optimisation of submarine fibre opticalnetwork usage. The result is unsurpassed low latency, resiliency, and availability.
Only recently, Deutsche Boerse Systems network has been able to cope withmultiple sea cable fibre cuts to the Middle East and South East Asia,enabling Deutsche Boerse Group customers of these regions to continue their business without any impact.