Leading trading exchange modernizes network to accelerate trading growth
Overview
Our client is a major financial market infrastructure organization operating multi-asset markets across equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities, with critical services spanning listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and market data.
The Challenge
The client’s legacy network environment was misaligned with the demands of modern trading platforms such as:
- Aging, end-of-life infrastructure requiring immediate refresh
- Increasing demand for ultra-low latency and high availability across global trading ecosystems
- Rapid growth in trading volumes and users driving need for network expansion
- Need for a modern, modular network architecture to enable future growth
- Growing requirement to integrate with cloud platforms and support hybrid/multi-cloud environments
The Objective
The client aimed to transform its network to support scalability, performance and future-ready trading operations including:
- Replace aging, end-of-life infrastructure with a modern, high-performance network
- Design a modular, highly available architecture with improved throughput and scalability
- Enable ultra-low latency connectivity for trading platforms and market participants
- Facilitate seamless integration with trading partners and external market ecosystems
- Enable hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity to support evolving digital and trading requirements
The Solution
HCLTech supported in transformation to enable a high-performance, resilient and future-ready trading infrastructure:
- Deployed low-latency, high-performance switching infrastructure
- Established a high-throughput colocation network
- Designed architecture to ensure consistent latency across trading environments
- Leveraged proven, OEM-certified network hardware validated for compatibility with critical trading applications
- Implemented segregated network zones to enhance security, performance and compliance
- Established connectivity to multiple cloud service providers to leverage best-of-breed services
- Implemented a cloud-based network interconnect fabric to multi-cloud networking
- Automated network monitoring and operations
The Impact
The transformation delivered significant improvements in performance, scalability and operational efficiency:
- Improved network performance and throughput through modern architecture
- Lower latency and faster response times for trading operations
- Future-ready infrastructure supporting platform growth and increasing trading volumes
- Seamless partner and ecosystem connectivity via optimized colocation design
- Enabled hybrid and multi-cloud adoption for greater flexibility and scalability
For more information, write to us at DF-Marketing@hcltech.com
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