IP Trade (www.iptrade-networks.com), a global player offering a fully functional, truly IP-based trading communications platform, is set to unveil Release 2 of its innovative software at the SIFMA Technology Management Conference and Exhibit which takes place from 10-12 June in New York City. The new release incorporates a number of significant innovations in the areas of disaster recovery, user productivity and collaboration.

IP Trade offers the first turret truly conceived for the IP world. The technology is powered by the world's most prevalent IP-PBX providers and is simply integrated into that environment, enabling trader choices to be driven by business needs rather than integration or implementation issues. Because the user interface is fully software-based, delivery of new trader functionality is fast and cost effective.

Major enhancements incorporated in Release 2 of the IP Trade software include:

•        Full support for Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) – providing continuity for turret users in remote sites in the event that connection is lost to the Cisco CallManager, for example if the network goes down. The use of Cisco SRST in conjunction with IP Trade ensures that traders in sites where there is no Cisco CallManager can still dial out and access private wires from their turret, with calls automatically redirected via local PSTN lines. IP Trade's approach is far more cost-effective than that of the legacy turret suppliers which require a local switch to be installed at each remote site to offer the same capabilities.

•        Ability to handle up to 24 concurrent calls – on a single, cost-effective turret device without the need for additional hardware modules, saving valuable space on the trading desk.

•        Toggle applet windows – allowing users to easily toggle between the applets displayed on the touchscreen interface, without the need for additional hardware. Traders can easily select and configure the applets they want – with popular applets including a calculator, dial pad, client shortcuts, speaker channels and video display. Other applets can be added quickly in response to user requests.

•        IP Trade Connect – enables turret users in a disaster recovery scenario or non-turret users, for example in the middle or back office, to access and share private wire connections on the trading floor using a standard IP phone or mobile device. IP Trade is unique in providing these users with support for up to two phone devices, including a Skype client. This means that users can listen to one line, whilst still using the other phone to participate in another private wire call.

IP Trade and Atrium will be present at TradeTech in Paris, 22-25 April 2008. Come visit us, and test our turrets.

TradeTech 2008 is the 8th Institutional Equity Trading & Technology Summit.

For more information on this event, please visit TradeTech's Website at http://www.wbr.co.uk/TradeTechEurope/

Avaya and IP Trade work together for the Institutional broking division of India Infoline Limited.

India Infoline and its wholly owned subsidiaries, is one of the leading players in the Indian financial services space. They needed an IP based technology solution to set up a state-of-art "Dealing Room" for the Institutional Broking division. Avaya and IP Trade answered their needs by providing the fully functional IP Turret to India Infoline.

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"It was an old system, not widely supported anymore," says Collin Coleman, IT director of Schneider Trading Associates. "We have been waiting for years for someone to develop a technology such as IP Trade's that could sit on top of our IP network and deliver the scalability and flexibility that VoIP enables," he adds.

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