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14 Fujitsu Limited
The
Americas
Helping CBOE stay ahead of huge volume
growth and fend off competition
—The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)—
CBOE is the world’s largest options exchange. In the face of
increased competition and tremendous growth in volume,
CBOE needed a technology infrastructure that could not only
handle more quotes and trades, but one that could process them
faster than any of its competitors.
To meet this challenge, CBOE turned to Fujitsu to deliver
servers with benchmark-leading performance backed by supe-
rior service and support. Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER servers have
enabled CBOE to build a rock-solid infrastructure that can
handle vastly greater numbers of transactions without latency.
Over a three-year period, CBOE went from peaking at 2,000
quotes per second to peaking at 50,000 per second—all with
close to 100 percent uptime.
The power of Fujitsu has also extended to the trading floor.
Though traders are not required to use Fujitsu Stylistic ST5000
Tablet PCs, these compact pen-based devices have become the
de facto standard for more than 800 market makers on the floor.
“We have worked with Fujitsu for 14 years and knew it has
a superior product roadmap,” said Curt Schumacher, Chief
Technology Officer, System Operations, CBOE. “We also knew
Fujitsu could deliver price, performance and power to meet our
current and future needs.”
Delivering network solutions to meet enhanced
security and data transmission needs
—Duquesne Light Company—
As a leader in the transmission and distribution of electric
energy, Duquesne Light Company provides superior customer
service and reliability to more than half a million customers in
southwestern Pennsylvania. In 1995, Duquesne purchased
Fujitsu SONET equipment, and as the utility’s network
evolved, we updated it to include our industry-leading
FLASHWAVE products. After 9/11, the US federal govern-
ment required electric utilities to perform complete data backup
at secure locations. In February 2002, Duquesne asked Fujitsu
to design a fully redundant network to meet its new security
and data transmission needs.
Fujitsu was also instrumental in the installation and turn-
up services at two major nodes. In the initial build, the
FLASHWAVE 4300 platform and OC-48 optics were installed
to replace some of the FLM 2400 add/drop multiplexers. Later,
FLASHWAVE 4100 was added to replace the rest of the FLM
2400 equipment. FLASHWAVE 4500 with OC-192 optics was
added to increase redundancy and network capacity for Gigabit
Ethernet over SONET. Duquesne Light’s network has grown
to 18 nodes and has a NETSMART 1500 management system.
As a long-term partner with the Pittsburgh utility, we managed
the entire process from design to maintenance and training.
Fujitsu’s industry-leading, high-performance PRIMEPOWER
UNIX servers have helped the CBOE to boost its peak order
processing capabilities from 2,000 to 50,000 trades per
second with close to 100 percent uptime.
By deploying Fujitsu FLASHWAVE optical transmission
products, Duquesne has built a network with added redun-
dancy and capacity connecting head office and each local
service center.