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RTS Offers Fast Access To CME & NYMEX Products

Date 25/01/2007

RTS Realtime Systems Group, a leading independent software vendor today announces that it now offers customers TRUE DMA to CME Globex & NYMEX through the combination of RTD and the high performance & ultra low latency solution CME LNet.

CME LNet is a customer-managed solution offering 40mb redundant fiber connections to the CME Globex platform via specified collocation facilities.

LNet is expected to decrease network latency times for order entry by 10 to 15 milliseconds compared to a standard CME connection through a 20 Mbit/s line using external line providers. With this setup in the Equinix datacenter, RTS now provides customers the fastest possible Direct Market Access (DMA) to the CME.

“With this new high speed fiber connection, the level of performance required for algorithmic trading engines and spread traders is the fastest in the industry”, says Steffen Gemuenden, co CEO of RTS.

In addition to electronic trading solutions, RTS offers a 24/7 fully managed datacenter service which includes high-speed connectivity to multiple exchanges, as well as state-of-the-art hardware and application hosting & housing services.