FIX Flyer, a trading infrastructure solutions, now offers a hosted solution inside Equinix, a provider of global data center services. FIX Flyer, inside Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) centers, helps customers manage and optimize their connectivity as part of an overall private cloud strategy.
The FIX Flyer solution on Equinixs global platform is used by a set of world-class technology service providers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to enable unprecedented choice, flexibility and interoperability. It also provides them with the agility to extend their existing trading infrastructure to an enterprise-ready trading connectivity service.
FIX Flyer automatically manages and optimizes the distribution of FIX (Financial Information Exchange) connectivity, independent of its geographic location. By teaming with Equinix, ISVs and developers can further monetize the value of their connectivity and trade processing, and help customers access on-demand FIX resources where and when they need it at any time, across the globe. In particular, mid-sized brokerages leverage the combination of FIX Flyer on Platform Equinix to manage all of their trade connectivity to their institutional clients, eliminating the hassle and expense of using third party VPN providers.
A number of leading service providers including Market Street Advisors and FolioDynamix have turned to FIX Flyer and Equinix to deliver services to their customers. These independently branded connectivity services utilize Flyers Managed FIX technology and a key set of enterprise-ready features including FIX connectivity management, FIX certification, self-service monitoring via Daytona, IP security, as well as the option to deploy selective translation and tag filtering on demand. As a result, these service providers give their customers the ability to manage their trade processing securely and cost-effectively in a cloud environment. All of these service providers leverage the Managed FIX API as the presentation layer for their trading applications.
Brian Ross, CEO of FIX Flyer, commented: The ability to manage, certify and secure FIX connectivity becomes challenging as it continues to grow at historical rates. Customers adopt our Managed FIX to better service their connectivity needs and help reduce this complexity. FIX Flyer has dramatically decreased overall costs for our clients by reducing their data center footprint and consolidating application infrastructure on to Managed FIX, while providing a dynamic solution that supports ultra high reliability and flexibility.”
Equinix provides a single, globally distributed platform of facilities across geographies to optimize trading applications. FIX Flyer leveraged the Equinix global footprint to develop a unique and cost-efficient offering to manage clients FIX connectivity that achieves stringent SLA objectives. The network community provides other Equinix customers with access to some of the latest technology for connecting to other hosting centers, including access to technical resources for testing, configuration and support.
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