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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