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Instant easy access to foreign exchange trading venues
MarketFactory Nexus provides easy and seamless data center financial cloud services for worldwide foreign exchange trading. All you need to bring is your trading model. MarketFactory can manage the rest.
From direct cross-connects to market data and trading venues to high-speed lines between data centers, MarketFactory gives you near instant access to our global network.
Fully managed cloud financial services
Our top of the line servers can serve both CPU intensive and light-weight applications. With our fully managed services, our trading operations team handles all the monitoring and configuration of hosted services.
Cross-connects to all major ECNs and liquidity providers
Low-latency point-to-point lines to all primary FX data centers
Co-located in NY4, LD4, TY3, SG1, and Aurora (CME)
High-speed circuits
Hosting options
Fully managed services
Low-latency global infrastructure
Customers can leverage MarketFactory’s global footprint for instant access to venues.
Key features
High-speed access to liquidity
Cross-connects to all major ECNs and liquidity providers in all primary FX data centers.
Co-located in NY4, LD4, TY3, SG1, and Aurora (CME).
Use existing shared cross-connects for fast onboarding, or request dedicated, exclusive cross-connects as needed.
Low-latency dedicated point-to-point lines between all primary FX data centers.
1–10 G single mode fiber for optimal performance.
Monitoring of customer bandwidth utilization.
Low latency
Low-latency dedicated point-to-point lines between all primary FX data centers.
High-speed circuits between data centers with redundancy on all paths.
Solarflare network cards, and Arista switches capable of bandwidth of1.28 terabits per second.
Instant provisioning of bandwidth, and monitoring of bandwidth and latency.
Nexus hosting
Choose physical machines, virtual machines, or install your own hardware in our cage.
Physical machines: 24 cores, 64 GB RAM, Solarflare cards, up to 40-Gbps bandwidth.
Virtual machines: Up to 20 cores.
Hosted machines have PTP timing services, internet connectivity, and market data services.
Separate NAS storage 10–40 TB.
GPS Grandmaster in each location.
Nexus managed services
Expert support from our infrastructure team.
Custom hosting and networking configuration.
Data center smart-hands hours.
Monitoring of hosted servers.
Operating system upgrades.
Integration with support alerting.
Latest Markets awards
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