Trading Floors get IP add ons

NEW YORK: Wesley Clover Solutions, a provider of IP voice communications platforms for financial trading firms and command and control centers, announced, what it says, significant advances in their virtualized voicetrading platform portfolio.

The company points that - Introduction of Virtual MCD (Virtual Mitel Communications Director), the first real-time voice application to run in a virtualized environment designed for the VMware vSphere 4 platform  and this software approach allows enterprises to build internal clouds that transform their voice infrastructure from a nodal, site-based architecture into a dynamic, flexible service for their employees. It also adds that customers have deployed Virtual MCD in sites ranging from 30 to more than 2,000 users.

This creates potential for capital savings due to the significant reduction in server hardware and real estate, operational savings with the reduction in power consumption and server provisioning costs, productivity improvements and resource efficiencies in data center management, risk mitigation for business continuity and disaster recovery planning. “The benefits of VMware virtualization for enterprises are well-documented,” said Peter Madsen, President and CEO of Wesley Clover Solutions. “We are excited to be able to work with Mitel to offer our capital markets customers the ability to realize these advantages with their voice infrastructure.”

Previously, you could not virtualize real-time voice applications due to the poor call quality resulting from latency and jitter issues. Virtual MCD has overcome this technology challenge, allowing mission-critical voice applications to run alongside other business applications in the data center. This introduces an array of IP communications capabilities that enhance trader productivity and collaboration among staff both on and off the trading floor irrespective of their location. Enterprises and IT staff benefit from simplified infrastructure, reduced footprint and operating costs and significantly increased scalability.

“This is a unique IP communications platform that enables financial trading firms to support trading floors, contact centers, office staff and mobile or remote workers on a single platform that is scalable from 10-65,000 users,” said Chris Corridon, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Wesley Clover Solutions.