National exchanges are upgrading their technology (e.g. Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Arrowhead, HKEx’s AMS/3.8 and alternative trading venues such as SBI Japannext, Chi-East, BlocSec, (a good overview can be found here) are starting up.

As an Exchange Technology Manager, your main concerns are:

• speed of execution, trade matching and price dissemination
• stability of your network infrastructure even under peak trading volumes.

Solace Systems technologies are being used globally by many of the most advanced exchanges, in two main areas:

• Faster, fairer and more reliable routing of trade orders from an exchange’s often multiple gateways to the matching engines even under peak order volumes such as market opening.
• Faster and fairer ticker price data dissemination to the exchange’s gateways.

These exchanges have also solved many stability problems and reduced costs and bandwidth requirements on their previously over-stressed LANs and WANs, purely by using Solace’s tools.