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ANZ Bank clusters Melbourne and Sydney trading rooms
Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 21 June 2011 15:15
BT has enabled the ANZ Bank to cluster its two main trading rooms.
The trading rooms, which house 240 traders, are 850km apart. BT had previously used this approach where the distance between sites has been around 100km.
Robert Field, ANZ Bank's head of markets infrastructure said "We are already experiencing cost-saving benefits by switching to a clustered voice trading platform. BT was the only participant in the market that could meet our requirements to host the central equipment across dual sites located so far away from each other."
Benefits of a clustered system are said to be that it limits the effects of an outage in one location (eg, any line can be answered at any location), and provides cost savings through remote maintenance.
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