Nexus

Low-latency global infrastructure
Customers can leverage MarketFactory’s global footprint for instant access to venues
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MarketFactory Nexus
With MarketFactory’s Nexus, data center financial cloud services become easy and seamless. All our clients need to bring is their trading model, MarketFactory can manage the rest. From direct cross-connects to market data/trading venues to high-speed lines between data centers, MarketFactory can offer almost instant access to our global network.Customers can leverage MarketFactory’s top of the line servers with configurations that can serve both CPU intensive and light-weight applications, and with the fully managed services monitoring/configuration of hosted services is fully handled by MarketFactory’s trading operations team.
MarketFactory Nexus
MarketFactory Nexus Exchange Connect
MarketFactory is cross-connected to all major ECN’s and liquidity providers in all primary FX data centers. Customers can leverage MarketFactory’s existing cross-connects for onboarding with minimum lead times.
Dedicated cross-connects can also be provisioned if requested. Pricing is available for both dedicated and shared cross-connects.
Highlights
Co-located in NY4, LD4, TY3, SG1, Aurora (CME)
Both dedicated and shared cross-connects available
1-10G single mode fibre for optimal performance based on bandwidth
Monitoring of customer bandwidth utilization
MarketFactory Nexus Low Latency Network
MarketFactory offers low latency dedicated point to point lines between all primary FX data centers. Customers can get high speed access to liquidity from different regions without having to provision their own circuits.
MarketFactory’s network is powered by Arista’s low latency switches with Corvil latency monitoring.
Highlights
High speed circuits between data centers
Redundancy on all paths
Network features Arista switches (capable of bandwidth of1.28 terabits per second)
SolarFlare network cards
Instant provisioning of bandwidth
Monitoring of bandwidth and latency
MarketFactory Nexus Hosting
Colocation is made easy with MarketFactory Nexus hosting options. Customers can choose between physical machines, virtual machines or installing your own hardware in our cage to leverage our low latency network, exchange connect, and improve performance on MarketFactory applications, Whisperer and Reflector. Hosted machines have access to PTP timing services, internet connectivity, and market data services.
Highlights
Physical Machine options: 24 cores, 64GB RAM, feature SolarFlare cards (bandwidth up to 40Gbps)
Virtual Machine :Up to 20 cores
Separate NAS storage 10-40TB
GPS Grandmaster in each location
Customers also have option to use own machine
MarketFactory Nexus Managed Services
MarketFactory’s Managed Services gives customers access to the expertise of MarketFactory’s infrastructure team. Service includes smart hands, custom configuration and management of hosted services/networking, OS upgrades, CPU/load monitoring, and integration to MarketFactory Support alerting.
Highlights
Custom hosting configuration
Data center smart-hands hours
Monitoring of hosted servers
OS upgrades