Front Arena, SunGard’s multi-asset class, integrated trading solution, has been integrated with the FAST Virtual Machine from Pantor Engineering, a provider of advanced solutions for building and monitoring transaction systems.
The FAST Protocol is a data compaction methodology that offers high compression rates for extreme bursts of market data without negatively affecting latency. Through the integration with the FAST Virtual Machine (FVM), Front Arena’s FIX engine will support both the FAST FIX protocol and the classic FIX protocol. SunGard’s first targeted production use is the upcoming FAST FIX interface for trading on the Nordic Exchange, scheduled for launch mid 2008.
Rolf Andersson, chief executive officer of Pantor, said: Front Arena is a state-of-the-art system with a large base of advanced and demanding users. FAST Virtual Machine (FVM) provides Front Arena with a complete high performance, low latency FAST implementation.