Media Timeline

May 13, 2016

McKay Brothers International Opens Marseille and Madrid POPs

Microwave provider extends services to India/Middle East gateway and Spanish Market May 16, 2016 / Marseille, France & Madrid, Spain / McKay Brothers International (MBI) has added new points of presence in Marseille and Madrid. The new POPs are receive sites for MBI’s private bandwidth subscribers who transmit from Slough-LD4, Basildon and Frankfurt-FR2. Marseille and Madrid are also distribution POPs for the Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service. The bandwidth and market data services offer the […]

May 13, 2016

Quincy: Latency Reductions ‘Nearing Perfection’ on Aurora-NJ Data Network

Quincy: Latency Reductions ‘Nearing Perfection’ on Aurora-NJ Data Network Inside Market Data Faye Kilburn 13 May 2016 The microwave data provider’s latest improvements bring it closer to the physical limits of low-latency wireless data transmission between Illinois and New Jersey, officials say. Quincy is now distributing market data between CME’s Aurora datacenter and Nasdaq’s datacenter in Carteret, NJ with one-way latency of 3.982 milliseconds, measured from rack to rack inside the datacenters (compared to 4.012 […]

May 12, 2016

Quincy Data Lowers Latency with McKay Brothers Upgrades

Aurora data distributed in NY2 in 4.015 ms OWT; Aurora-Carteret in 3.982 ms May 12, 2016 / Quincy Data, Oakland, CA / The Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service has lowered latency on its microwave market data service between Illinois and New Jersey. QED distributes select Aurora and Chicago-sourced futures data in major trading centers in New Jersey at the lowest known latency. QED distributes Aurora data in Secaucus-NY2 in 4.015 milliseconds (ms) one-way, Mahwah in […]

May 10, 2016

Lower Latency And Lower Cost: Having Your Cake and Eating It Too

An excerpt from The Harrington Starr’s, The Financial Technologist Q2 Edition – Blockchain Special: Lower Latency and Lower cost: Having your Cake and Eating it too Written by Stephane Tyc For years now we have heard about how banks are under increasing pressure to cut costs. In the post-crisis era, a large proportion of spending has had to be earmarked for upgrading systems to meet regulatory requirements. With the latest annual cost of compliance survey […]

May 5, 2016

McKay Boosts European Futures Content on QED Wireless Data Service with Euronext Data

McKay Boosts European Futures Content on QED Wireless Data Service with Euronext Data Inside Market Data Joanne Faulkner 05 May 2016 McKay Boosts European Futures Content on QED Wireless Data Service with Euronext Data The vendor says the QED millimeter-wave wireless service will provide the lowest latencies between Euronext’s co-location facility and other key London datacenters. Officials say QED subscribers can now receive data on select Euronext instruments at the lowest known latency in major […]

May 5, 2016

Euronext Derivatives Added to McKay Brothers’ Quincy Extreme Data Service

Equity index futures at the lowest known latency at major UK trading centers May 5, 2016 / London, UK & Geneva, Switzerland / McKay Brothers International has added Euronext Equity Index Futures to its industry-leading Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service. The QED service now offers select Euronext instruments at the lowest known latency at major UK trading centers. Latency to Slough-LD4 is 273 microseconds, Interxion-LON2 is 140 and Quincy’s Central London POP adjacent to the […]

March 8, 2016

FISD Technology Forum Panel: Low Latency – So Last Year Dahling

Stéphane Tyč enjoyed being part of the Low Latency panel at the FSID Technology forum on March 2, 2016 in London.

January 14, 2016

Quincy Eyes Asia, Fixed Income For Growth

Quincy Eyes Asia, Fixed Income For Growth Inside Market Data Faye Kilburn 14 Jan 2016 Quincy Eyes Asia, Fixed Income for Growth After initially focusing on the US and Europe for equities and derivatives, Quincy is now looking to Asia and bond markets. In December, Quincy’s sister company, microwave network provider McKay Brothers, completed its UK millimeter wave network with a new Point of Presence (POP) adjacent to the London Stock Exchange in central London. […]

December 17, 2015

McKay Brothers Completes UK Wireless Data Network

McKay Brothers Completes UK Wireless Data Network Inside Market Data Joanne Faulkner 17 Dec 2015 McKay is claming to have the lowest-known latency between key datacenters in and around London. The POP, which is adjacent to the London Stock Exchange, connects datacenters serving major UK equities, interest rate and foreign exchange matching engines at the lowest latency, officials say, claiming roundtrip latency from the Equinix LD4 datacenter in Slough to McKay’s Central London POP of […]

December 17, 2015

McKay Brothers Completes UK Local Wireless Network at Lowest Known Latency

December 17, 2015 / Geneva, Switzerland / McKay Brothers International’s (MBI) Central London POP, adjacent to the London Stock Exchange, is now live. The Central London POP completes MBI’s UK Local millimeter wave network. MBI connects data centers serving major UK equities, interest rate and FX matching engines at the lowest known latency. For example, latency from Slough-LD4 to a MBI’s Central London POP is 272 microseconds round trip. Slough-LD4 to Interxion’s Central London location […]