The Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure^® (SFTI^®) is a highly resilient private network that connects you to 150 global markets, including the ICE and NYSE markets, through a single point of access. The markets connected through SFTI span the equities, fixed income, futures, options and foreign exchange asset classes, and your connection enables you to securely route orders and get streamlined access to more than 600 market data feeds, clearing and other trading services.

Purpose-built for the capital markets community, SFTI is a fully managed and dedicated MPLS network engineered to avoid single points of failure and maximize up-time. SFTI Global Market Access, which is available in over 30 access locations globally, simplifies connectivity and provides the necessary resilience for the smooth running of the markets.

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Low latency access to matching engines and market data has moved from a competitive differentiator to a necessity for many trading applications and firms. We provide a growing list of connection options designed specifically for optimized latency including:

• SFTI Direct Market Access (DMA) uses low latency, point-to-point circuits and low latency carrier grade switching hardware to provide fast market data as well as order routing without the added latency of a traditional normalized feed. DMA connectivity can be provided in one of our 30 data and access centers or provisioned over our low latency redundant backbone for access at a self-managed facility.
• SFTI Low Latency Network offers market participants faster transport of market data and order execution services between the NYSE U.S Liquidity Center (USLC) in Mahwah, NJ and the major New York metro area trading hubs of Carteret and Secaucus.
• SFTI Wireless provides point-to-point connectivity for faster data transfer than any fiber route between ICE’s Mahwah Data Center and Carteret and Secaucus.
• Colocation and Hosting – see below

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We offer a range of options for customers with latency sensitive applications requiring space colocated or in close proximity to ICE and non-ICE markets. We provide connectivity infrastructure designed to ensure no local, single point of failure, as well as remote Smart Hands on-site assistance for your hosted equipment within our shared or dedicated racks. This offering includes:

• Colocation at ICE data centers in the U.S. (Chicago, Illinois, Mahwah, New Jersey) and UK (Basildon, Essex) with options ranging from high density powered full cabinets to entry-level partial cabinets.
• Hosting Centers in 13 locations across North America, Europe and Asia including racking and cabling services for equipment you choose to host; dedicated and shared cabinet hosting provided.
• SFTI Timing Services that provide accurate timestamping, including for GPS, PTP and NTP as inputs to measure latency in market data and order routing.

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We can build and operate fully managed services that enable customers to better manage cost. Our services include managed connections all the way to a managed device at the client site and managed bandwidth.

• SFTI Managed Connections where we procure, configure, and manage all components of this end-to-end service, and ensure connectivity is established from the managed device at your site. This relieves you of having to manage, identify and troubleshoot connectivity issues.
• SFTI Managed Bandwidth for connecting to multiple locations; this leverages the SFTI backbone and allows for flexible growth along with the ability to choose a bandwidth profile that fits your real traffic needs.

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