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IP Trade enables financial institutions to provide the highest level of functionality and availability for their trader community, whilst uniquely delivering the benefits of enterprise class IP telephony to the trading environment.
The business case for IP telephony in the Trading Rooms
The development of IP telephony (IPT) has advanced significantly since the major vendors launched the first systems in 1999. Presently IPT can be seen to be deployed for mid and back office functions of the financial services institution, but a secondary vendor is purchased to deliver the front office, trader communication infrastructure and services.
IP Trade believes that isolating the trading floor from today's feature rich, highly available and secure IP-PBX limits the institutions ability to realise advantage in the following areas;
- Significant TCO reduction - through reduced capital outlay, simplified management of a single environment and reduced support costs
- Increased productivity - by delivering a converged environment, where for the first time the trading communication platform is integrated seamlessly into the application layer, using truly open standards.
- An enhanced business continuity strategy - by splitting trader communication infrastructure over many sites, thereby cost effectively delivering many options for disaster recovery, global free seating or home working.
IP Trade has focussed considerable resources on delivering the first secure, highly available set of trading turrets that integrates into the IPT infrastructure as another terminal, but delivers all the functionality required by the most demanding traders. The platform uses an innovative solution to create a non-blocking environment, a pre-requisite for busy trading floors.
The platform has been engineered to provide the range of features within Cisco, Avaya, Alcatel, Broadsoft and Asterisk environments.
Trading Room Telephony Features
Our product line up is simple. We deliver the IP Trade Turret and the IP Trade Turret Lite.
Our Turret provides all the features required by the most demanding users of a dealing system.
It supports;
- up to 27 voice channels, with 24 of those being monitored speaker channels
- 6000 speed-dials
- Group Intercom
Our Turret Lite dispenses with unnecessary hardware, meaning users that require less voice processing power, but all the benefits of the IP Trade platform can benefit from a lower entry price.
The Turret Lite supports,
- Up to 5 voice channels
- 6000 speed-dials
- Group Intercom
Both Turret and Turret Lite benefit from,
- Provision for all MRD and ARD private wires
- Full duplex-conferencing
- Advanced speed-dial management system
- An optional, IP Trade voice recorder, with playback to the turret
- Connectors for many other voice recorders
- Video to the desktop
- Many other applets designed to improve Trader efficiency
Reliability and Availability
The Turret and Turret Lite have been developed to offer institutions the highest levels of availability.
- They can connect to clusters of IP PBXs, they provide 3 Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000 over UTP) ports that can be used to connect to 1, 2 or even 3 different switches or external devices with a sub-second convergence time.
- There are no moving mechanical components present within the device.
- The core software is customized by IP trade to ensure excellent reliability, but retain the benefits of utilising open standards and non-proprietary operating systems.
Application Integration
The Turret and Turret Lite are built on extremely powerful and versatile hardware and software architecture. Processing power is delivered via a dedicated powerful processor, providing video capability. A highly proven embedded operating system and 15-inch touchscreen, offers the institution the foundation for many types of application support.
The following capabilities are available or are scheduled within the development roadmap:
- TV streaming to the turret
- Presence and instant messaging integration
- Integration to Outlook
- Advanced recording integration to the CLI and Trade ID, enabling enhanced compliance operation
- High Definition video conferencing
Role of the IP Trade Application Server
The IP Trade administration server (TSS) is a key component of the solution. It provides the administrator with a visual representation of each turret on the floor, and allows very simply management of moves, adds or changes and the daily needs of the trader.
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