Perseus Telecom and CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced a new service offering called High Precision Time™. This enables customers to synchronize their time systems across a multitude of data centers where Perseus offers this service and is available at CME Group’s data center in Aurora, IL effective immediately.
The service includes access to a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-certified GPS antenna as well as Network Time Protocol (NTP) and Precision Time Protocol (PTP) connectivity with nanosecond accuracy to the Coordinated Universal Time UTC(NIST) timescale.
“The build out of High Precision Time™ with the CME Co-location Services Group in Aurora, was an important undertaking in helping our mutual customers mitigate the risks of poor or out of sync time stamps when disseminating and trading on sensitive market information,” said Andrew Kusminsky, Chief Operating Officer at Perseus Telecom. “We look forward to serving trading firms and vendors such as those within CME Group’s data center which require a high level of responsibility in compliance and high precision trading.”
CME Co-Location Services will provide cross-connect access to High Precision Time™ with the following services now available:
- Certified NIST GPS Antenna access
- Certified UTC(NIST) timescale accuracy and reporting
- Choice of delivery protocols: NTP (Network Time Protocol) and PTP (Precision Time Protocol)
- Choice of connectivity access: RJ45 copper, COAX Cable, 1Gbps, 10Gbps and Dedicated fiber cross connect
“We are committed to providing the CME Group trading community with the proper and relevant technology needed in a high-tech datacenter environment,” said Craig Mohan, Managing Director, Co-Location and Data Center Services for CME Group. “We have partnered with Perseus Telecom to make this service available to all customers located in Aurora at a time when regulatory changes and the need to have more precision in reporting trading events are crucial to sound risk management.”
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