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Mantara

“Cisco has a track record of successfully partnering with market leaders. We believe that the Cisco Nexus 3064 plays a significant role in the future of ultra-low latency switching.” – Victor Kokaram, Head of Infrastructure

• High-frequency and electronic trading technology provider

• Pre-trade risk controls with ultra-low latency direct market access

• 50 employees

• Based in Jersey City, NJ

• Double-digit growth in last 6 months

• ExpressWay platform processes millions of market data and trade-related messages per /sec

• Cisco data center customer since 2007

• Theater: Americas

CUSTOMER STATS

CHALLENGE• Reduce complexity of multi-vendor, multi-product infrastructure

• Help customers comply with evolving security regulations, while maintaining ultra-low latency market access

• Support rapidly growing global client base

WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS• Cisco Nexus 3064 Switches provide ultra-low latency with isolated

private VLANs

• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches offer highly scalable, modular switching system

• End-to-end Cisco Unified Fabric creates simplified homogenous environment

BENEFITS• Eased management and reduced administrative costs by 30%

• Reduced TCP retransmission errors, accelerating development efforts

• Gained more efficient and secure infrastructure that can easily adapt to evolving business needs

CISCO DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT

• Cisco Nexus 3064 switches

• Cisco Nexus 7000 switches

• Cisco Catalyst 3560-X switches

• More than 150 servers

• Building 4 data centers colocated with major exchanges: NYSE, NASDAQ, Direct Edge and BATS