Infinet Financial Systems (IFS) recently demonstrated its latest solution, the Adaptive Trading Platform (ATP (News - Alert)), which offered Turret functionality to 4,750 positions. IFS is a company specializing in the development and application of IP to Trading Room voice.
In a release, Stephen Phillips, CEO of IFS, said, “This represents a major change in the way that the industry will deliver Trading Room voice solutions on a global basis. It validates our methodology and proves IP can now scale. IFS are now leading the way in implementing IP in the trading room – we expect customers to see this as an answer to many of their concerns about the delivery of the technology.”
Amazon Web Services (News 
- Alert) cloud has been used to verify ATP across 4,750 positions, which were spread across the world’s economic hubs of New York, Chicago, London, Singapore and Tokyo. The Trading Rooms of a typical global institution were simulated by implementing ATP, thereby exhibiting the characteristic call patterns on a Trading Floor. These included scrutinizing and measurement of connect times, comprehensible down times, along with status and network usage information exactly up to the individual traders’ location.
Huw Williams, CTO of IFS, said, “The results clearly show our platform, the ATP, works just the way a major Trading Room needs it to work. The use of Amazon Web Services allowed us the flexibility to scale and stress-test the ATP as if it were implemented on a floor larger than any that actually exists in the world today. We were able to make sure that calls could begin and end at any point and could be manipulated in the way that we wanted. The implementation was closely measured and showed a total of 39,000 calls taking place across all the positions – that is an average or over 8 simultaneous calls at every single position. Needless to say, the ATP architecture worked as specified and it validates our belief in its distributed nature.”
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