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About IP Trade

IP Trade’s vision is to provide the most secure and reliable IP Trading Turrets for financial institutions globally. IP Trade’s turrets offers all the features normally associated with traditionally deployed trading rooms, but delivers these via a range of IP-PBX vendors’ solutions. In addition, the open standards turret architecture allows IP Trade to seamlessly integrate with the application environment of the institution.

IP Trade provides the highest level of functionality and availability for their trader community.

IP Trade Turret

IP Trade Turret Lite

IP Turrets In Detail

The business case for IP telephony in the Trading Rooms

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:

Extension of some user specific features of the IP PBX :

Authentication of the user (direct or as a proxy to Radius or LDAP systems)

Acting as a gateway to other applications using webservice, sql, xml or MQ

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.

IP Turrets

IP Trade’s Turret and Turret-Lite are targeted at the needs of specific types of traders. The Turret, proven in busy inter-dealer broker floors can offer all the functionality and availability required in the most demanding environments. Turret-Lite offers the full value of it’s bigger brother but trims the voice processing capabilities to a lower level delivering one of the best price/quality ratio’s in the industry.

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Open Line Dealing

The Turret Proxy Open Line Server (TPO) has been designed to compliment the turret with a feature set above and beyond that offered from the telephony system alone. The IP Trade turrets powerful feature pack leverages the TPO application to ensure that traders have a full range of user functionality, line sharing, supervisory information, private wire support and manipulation (ARD & MRD), advanced intercom and conferencing abilities. This empowers the user with the enhanced functions that they need for them to be truly effective in the market whilst allowing the IT Management to realize the benefits associated with distributed unified communication solutions.

The TPO application can be scaled and replicated in line with the demands of the trading environment and ensures that voice streams are synchronized across the floors. The unique way in which IP Trade has approached its design also allows for a simplistic yet powerful inter-site line feature set. The TPO's expanding feature set has been developed in line with ideas gained directly from the user base to ensure that it can adapt to the changing demands of the trading environment.

The TPO provides the architecture to ensure the IP Trade platform is non-blocking.

Turret Support Server

The TSS (Turret Support Server) is at the heart of IP Trade’s architecture. It is a web-based application running on Windows2003, making use of SQL server and IIS. It is offered either as a software only version or as a device. It is offered in 2 versions, one dedicated for small trading floors and limited to 10 users, the other that is virtually unlimited, the CPU and memory capacity being the only consideration to sizing.

This is a fully redundant solutions and is capable of being virtualized using "VMware" type technology.

The TSS fulfils 3 main roles :

Extension of some user specific features of the IP PBX

Authentication of the user (direct or as a proxy to Radius or LDAP systems)

Acting as a gateway to other applications using webservice, sql, xml or MQ

Architecture for a Converging Trading Floor

The IP Trade solution enables an integrated and simplified architecture.

The IP Trade approach simplifies the institutions infrastructure, providing a more flexbile platform on which to build the trading environment.

Efficiencies are realised by:

Using on single point of call processing node.
Using one single (but redundant) voice recording server.
Using one single corporate directory for front and back office.

Eliminating the need for the lagacy switch dedicated for front office only.
Vonnecting all private wires to one single server that can be accessible from all dealer boards.

Using the PBX manufactures clustering characteristics to build a high level of redundancy into the solution.
The ability to work from a remote office without the need for a local PBX.

Voice Recording

IP Trade has developed its own OEM recorder based on Verint technology.

This recorder provides the optimum level of functionality when deployed with the IP Trade platform.

Active recording thereby lowering the load on the network components

Codec modification for lower storage consumption

Replay and advanced search functions on the turret

IP Trade also integrates with other main recording vendors offering further technology options to our clients. IP Trade is compatible with Nice, ASC and TC&C (Carin).