Juniper implements arrownet in Tokyo Stock Exchange

“We look for our IT infrastructure to be secure,reliable and able to quickly accommodate and adapt to changes in market conditions,” said Yoshinori Suzuki,Managing Director and CIO of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. “With Juniper’s high-performance routers in place,arrownet is an important network platform upon which we have built arrowhead. The ultra low-latency response investors have been experiencing since the release of arrowhead proves that arrownet is delivering on our vision to supply a world-class trading infrastructure that is able to compete on equal terms with,or even surpass,any other financial market in the world.”

A robust MPLS network,arrownet is designed for fast,high-volume data communications with latency of less than two milliseconds (measured value is less than one millisecond) from the access point to the data center. The network is configured as a ring using highly reliable Juniper Networks M Series routers placed with dual redundancy,making arrownet infrastructure highly fault tolerant. The configuration also allows for fail-over from TSE’s primary data center to its backup center without intervention on the part of the securities firms,reducing their burden.