Fortune 500 company and provider of marketplace
infrastructure, data and technology solutions,
leverages Megaport services to provide dedicated
cloud-based access to data offerings.
CASE STUDY
ICE.
Case Study Snapshot
To extend the delivery of its service offerings
beyond ICE’s own private network and to offer access
to its data via the cloud, ICE leveraged Megaport
services to offer market participants secure, dedicated
connections to ICE Data Services’ proprietary content
and other market data via the cloud. Through the
launch of IGN Cloud Connect, ICE has expanded its
service to prominent cloud platforms around the globe.
About ICE
ICE is a Fortune 500 company and provider of
marketplace infrastructure, data services and
technology solutions to a broad range of customers
including nancial institutions, corporations and
government entities. ICE operates regulated
marketplaces, including the New York Stock Exchange,
for the listing, trading and clearing of a broad array of
derivatives contracts and nancial securities across
major asset classes.
ICE’s comprehensive data services offering
supports the trading, investment, risk management
and connectivity needs of customers around the world
and across asset classes. As a leading technology
provider for the U.S. residential mortgage industry, ICE
Mortgage Technology provides the technology and
infrastructure to transform and digitize U.S. residential
mortgages, from application and loan origination
through to nal settlement.
IGN connects the global market community to a
broad range of data sources supporting nancial
and commodity data ow, including proprietary and
third-party content, as well as unicast access to
other exchanges and trading venues, in a secure,
efcient manner.
Challenges
Prior to the launch of IGN Cloud Connect, ICE observed
that not all of their customers required direct access
to the IGN via a physical point of presence. Some
of their customers wanted greater exibility in how
they accessed ICE’s business-critical content and
services, whilst still requiring the same robust levels
of security, dedicated connectivity and low latency in
their services. In light of these requirements, and with
public cloud services becoming a fundamental part of
their customers’ IT architecture, ICE looked to build an
offering that leveraged public cloud environments as
part of its data-delivery offering.
Any cloud-based access would need to parallel on-
premises solutions, including secure, low-latency
access to ICE Data Services offerings with delivery
being directly from the public clouds in addition to
specic IGN access points. ICE also needed to ensure
their customers could adopt and integrate this new
solution relatively quickly and easily.
Key Points
• Launched ICE Global Network (IGN) Cloud Connect leveraging the
Megaport Software Dened Network (Megaport SDN) to extend data
access to the cloud.
• IGN aims to provide secure, high performance, low latency connectivity
to unicast nancial data. Previously, that data was not accessible within
the public cloud.
• Expanded reach of ICE Data Services’ proprietary content over IGN - for
example ICE Consolidated Feed, ICE ETF Hub, Pricing & Reference Data.
• Matched level of security and privacy to that which customers experience
when connected locally to IGN.
• Many clients are currently leveraging IGN’s Cloud Connect services globally,
including asset managers, banks, retail trading, prop trading, surveillance
rms, solution providers, and wealth management providers.
- Margaret Niche, Head of Global Network, ICE
“ICE has stringent requirements for security, resiliency, and
performance for our customers. Any provider we work with must
meet our high standards, as well as provide our global customers
with speed, choice, and coverage. Megaport SDN is a private
network purpose-built for capital markets. ICE is pleased to be
leveraging Megaport’s services as a part of IGN Cloud Connect”
“
Solution
In order to meet these customer requirements, ICE
developed and launched IGN Cloud Connect, which
gives customers access to ICE’s Consolidated Feed, xed
income pricing and analytics, and other data -
all via the cloud. Incorporated into this offering is the
use of Megaport’s Virtual Cross Connect (VXC) and
Megaport Cloud Router (MCR) at key ICE locations, built
upon the Megaport SDN. As a result, IGN Cloud Connect
enables ICE customers to consume multiple data
feeds and unicast services directly and securely from
prominent cloud service providers globally. Moreover,
customers now have access to ICE data services
from the world’s top public clouds by leveraging 700+
Megaport-enabled data centers.
Benefits
IGN Cloud Connect includes the following benets
to customers:
Global Coverage —
Customers have access to 700+
enabled data centers in 24 countries across North
America, Europe, and Asia Pacic. As IGN Cloud Connect
leverages the Megaport SDN, a customer can connect
to IGN from any of these Megaport-enabled locations
around the globe. This offering is ideal for customers
who require secure and low-latency
access to IGN without the need to colocate at an
IGN location.
Cloud Provider Neutral —
The ability to consume
nancial data offered through ICE Data Services from
any public cloud environment, including AWS, Microsoft
Azure, and Google Cloud.
Security, Resiliency, and Performance —
Megaport
SDN is a private network purpose-built for capital
markets that bypasses the public internet.
Cost Efciency and Predictability —
Fixed monthly
fees for bandwidth utilization for connectivity.
Time to Market —
IGN Cloud Connect is pre-connected
between IGN and the cloud providers, so connectivity
can be provided to a customer in a matter of days,
reducing the lead time usually associated with third-
party vendors.
Broad Content Access —
ICE Trade (formerly WebICE),
ICE Connect, ICE Chat, eSignal, and ICE unicast services
(including drop copy and order entry); third-party unicast
content, pricing and analytics, continuous evaluated
pricing, pricing and reference data, and CDS pricing
data can all be accessed via IGN Cloud Connect (subject
to applicable terms and fees). IGN Cloud Connect
customers also have access to both market data
dissemination and bidirectional order ow.
Third Party Content
United States:
New
York
Chicago
Ashbu
rn
Japan:
Tokyo
United Kingdom:
London
Hong Kong
Megaport Backbone
ICE Global
Network
IGN Cloud Connect
IGN Cloud Connect
GCP Interconnect Cloud Router
Virtual Network
Gateways
VM Images
AWS Gateway
Market Data & Analytics
Vendor
AWS
Environment
Market Data & Analytics
Vendor
Azure
Environment
Market Data & Analytics
Vendor
GCP
Environment
Amazon EC2
Compute Engine
AWS Direct Connect
ExpressRoute
ICE Data Centers
IGN Cloud Connect Megaport Enabled Markets
Solutions Diagram
IGN Cloud Connect provides customers with diverse connections in multiple markets for redundancy and protection,
as well as access to multiple data feeds and unicast services from prominent third-party content providers.
Use cases include:
Market Data and Analytics
Provider
Retail Broker Dealer Trade Surveillance and
Market Risk Platform
Challenge
A leading global market data
and analytics provider with
secondary infrastructure in
AWS was looking to efciently
consolidate multiple exchange
data sources.
A global retail broker dealer
servicing both North America
and Asia-Pacic customers
wanted to access key US
equity and options markets
directly from their AWS
infrastructure.
A trade surveillance and
market risk platform servicing
compliance and risk desks to
help identify spoong, trade
abnormalities, and perform
pre-trade risk mitigation,
wanted to reduce costs by
migrating their infrastructure
from on-premises to AWS.
They were an existing
subscriber of ICE unicast
data from Latin America and
European exchanges and
would require access to the
same data set plus additional
market data directly from their
AWS environment.
Outcome
Using IGN Cloud Connect,
the customer created a fully
resilient deployment with
subscriptions to multiple
global exchanges via ICE
Consolidated Feed to power
their client-facing applications.
Using IGN Cloud Connect, the
customer established secure
private connectivity between
the NJ-NY triangle, Chicago
data center, and the AWS-
US-EAST-1 region in order
to access ICE Consolidated
Feed directly from their AWS
environment. The ability to
consume this data directly
from AWS also facilitated
the customer’s onward
redistribution over their AWS
backbone to China.
Using IGN Cloud Connect, the
customer established secure
access to the required data
via ICE Consolidated Feed,
interconnecting their NJ-NY
triangle data center and the
AWS-US EAST-1 region.
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