Real-Time Data Access
Connecting to the Exchange
The Exchange currently offers several types of connectivity with varying levels of management and performance. These range from a full host-to-host solution to a vendor access network connection, as described below.
Exchange Hosting is London Stock Exchange’s lowest-latency connectivity option for firms looking to gain the fastest access to the Group’s markets. Trading participants, information vendors and solution providers locate their servers physically within the Exchange’s own data centre, providing ultra-low microsecond access to our trading-matching engines and real-time market data.
Network service providers (NSPs) act as carriers of Exchange information and trading services to its end-clients, who contract with the NSP for provision of network connectivity and sign agreements directly with the Exchange for access to trading and information.
Customers of NSPs will have service enablements set up on the Exchange’s trading and information systems in the same way as a direct Extranex customer. The data and trading feeds are in the same format as those received by a direct Extranex customer and are subject to the same testing requirements.
Through its Vendor access network (VAN) model, London Stock Exchange works in partnership with vendors that have met its accreditation requirements to provide access to the Exchange's trading system via their proprietary networks.
Third-party vendors
London Stock Exchange’s network of information vendors allows customers to receive our data through a third-party organisation.
Customers who do not wish to maintain a direct connection to the Exchange may choose to take information from a third-party vendor.
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