Atrium Fattens Euro Multicast Pipes

Paris-headquartered network provider Atrium Network has increased the bandwidth of its European multicast infrastructure to 10 gigabytes per second—a ten-fold increase over the network’s previous capacity—to enable clients to cope with rising market data volumes across Europe, officials say.

The bandwidth expansion outstrips the 30 to 40 percent growth in data volumes that Atrium is seeing across most European trading venues this year, but chief executive Emmanuel Carjat says the need for