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Telx, a provider of interconnection, colocation and business exchange services in high demand North American markets, has announced that the latest member of its Financial Business Exchange is LiquidityBook, a financial technology communications provider that offers its services to both buy-side and sell-side brokerage firms.

LiquidityBook has also colocated its Financial Information Exchange Service Bureau and messaging platform solution in the 60 Hudson St., NY, data center facility of Telx, the company claims. Deploying its 15 premier facilities, Telx helps the enterprises in cutting short their time to market, and also offers direct connections to enhanced networks and access to over 800 leading telecommunications carriers, ISPs, content providers and enterprises; reducing connectivity costs considerably. With the new development, customers of Telx’s financial markets will now be able to enjoy the benefits of Direct Market Access and industry-unique instant-messaging system as a result of the integration of the FBX with LiquidityBook's FIX and non-FIX Routing. Additionally, leveraging Telx's colocation services located at 60 Hudson St., LiquidityBook will now get enhanced resiliency for its data infrastructure, which will provide much better online trading experience to its customers.

Before selecting Telx as its partner, LiquidityBook had considered a number of data center providers, and finally on the basis of total cost of investment, connection density of company’s facility coupled with overall security and reliability, decided to go ahead with Telx.

According to Steven Kerr Lindsay, VP of Development and Information Technology at LiquidityBook, of all the companies that the company had a talk with, Telx is the only colocation partner that was not only interested in solving its challenges, but also in addressing the needs of LiquidityBook’s financial markets customers. Lindsay noted that leveraging Telx’s colocation services at 60 Hudson St. enables LiquidityBook to expand its reach to financial markets customers who need fast, secure access to vital information to make accurate decisions on both the buy and sell sides of electronic trading.

With its ability to offer a flexible, cost-effective blend of data center and interconnectivity services in one of Manhattan's most strategic locations, Telx has impressed LiquidityBooks, and the company hopes that by participating in the Telx FBX, it joins hundreds of other financial services providers who can now offer customers a competitive advantage through low latency network connectivity and the best possible routing available on the market today, Lindsay added.

Earlier this month, Telx announced that it will host the North American Network Operators' Group or ‘NANOG’ (News - Alert) fall meeting, NANOG50, held in Atlanta, Georgia, October 3-6, 2010. NANOG50 is a four-day educational event featuring leading-edge networking tutorials, presentations and operator panel discussions as well as relationship-building opportunities between NANOG members.