The floor of the New York Stock Exchange remains one of the world’s most iconic locations. Images of traders staring at screens in either joy or despair are beamed around the world whenever financial trading makes it onto the front pages.
The new NYSE data centre has floor space covering about 100 000 m² (approximately four football pitches). The trading hall and IT equipment are supported by an electrical and mechanical infrastructure with inbuilt 5x redundancy. This modern trading centre which came online in 2010, demands very low downtime and extremely low mean-time-to-repair, (less than half an hour) since any failure results in millions of dollars worth of lost trade, even for the slightest disruption.
Omniflex was awarded the contract to provide six distributed alarm systems networked to the central control room where grouped alarms are displayed on an Omniflex HMI. Using Omniflex’s SIL1 annunciator systems with Omniflex EasyView HMI, alarms are displayed both locally and remotely, giving operators and engineers the information first-hand when they need it.
Due to reliable and accurate reporting, the NYSE assets maintain high availability allowing trading to continue uninterrupted with payback achieved in a matter of minutes.
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