November 22, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Equinix, Inc. (equinix.com) announced on Monday that ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc. has established an infrastructure hub within Equinix’s Chicago Internet Business Exchange center to support the company’s financial market data services. The move enables ACTIV Financial to more efficiently reach partners and customers operating in the futures, options, and other derivative markets in the Chicago and West Coast regions.
ACTIV Financial develops and supports a complete suite of market data content and a low-latency exchange data management technology, including a North American composite data feed (“ActivFeed”), a high-end quote terminal (“ActivWorkstation”) and a ticker-plant software infrastructure for client data centers (“ActivDF”). The company provides products and services that help its customers to apply and profit from time-sensitive securities market information.
ACTIV Financial aggregates market data content from a wide range of sources including global exchange data feeds, primary sourced corporate actions, fundamental data and news. The data is used by clients’ trading systems to make critical trading and investment decisions and requires a solid IT and connectivity infrastructure to give customers a greater performance and reliability for the delivery of services in real-time.
