Fastest co-location

• BSE is the fastest Exchange in the world with a speed of 6 microseconds.
• The Exchange has setup a State-of-the-art Data Centre to manage the Colocation facilities.
• It is the fastest Colocation service in India with round trip network latency of less than 10 microseconds.
• The response for an order has round trip latency of about 16 microseconds (including 10 microseconds of Colocation network latency).
• Market access across Equity, Equity Derivatives and Currency Derivatives segments.
• Extension of Precision Time Protocol (PTP) from BSE's Grandmaster clock to the Colocation enables members to synchronize with the Exchange clock.
• Equitable distribution of market data to all members by usage of same length cables for all members.
• Full order book (EOBI) multicast is provided to Colocation members at no cost.

Co-location Data Centre

Key technical highlights are:

• 10 Gbps Fibre optic cable connection with BSE trading system with full redundancy
• 24 X 7 operations support
• 24 X 7 High security zone
• Uninterrupted Power Supply with DG back up
• ITIL and ISO 27001 compliant
• FM200 Fire suppression facility
• Market Data feed from Thomson Reuters Electron network
• 99.999% uptime

10Gbps network at Co-location:

• Low latency 10Gbps switches deployed at Colocation.
• Dedicated Colocation gateways with minimum hops to route the algo orders to BSE Trading system for low round trip latency.
• Connectivity between members' Colo Racks and Colocation switches upgraded from 1 Gbps Copper to 10 Gbps Fibre network.
• Members' trading servers directly connected to Colocation low latency switches via 10 Gbps Fibre network for low latency trading.

Co-location Service


*10G network with solarflare card SFN7322F with Onload

Diagrammatic representation of “Sponsored Market Access”



Facility of "Sponsored Market Access"

The Members can avail 'Sponsored Market Access' (SMA) at Colocation and features thereof are:

• SMA is a software distribution model in which applications are hosted by a service provider and made available to customers over a network.
• Rack space is allocated by BSE to the SMA Service providers to install their algo trading application server at Colocation. The members can connect to this SMA algo server at Colocation via Internet.
• The algo strategy parameters can be triggered from the member front-end application and sent to the SMA algo server at Colocation.
• The corresponding algos will generate orders to be sent to BSE trading system through Colocation network.
• The algo orders will be sent to the BSE Trading system via the high speed Colocation gateway for minimum latency.
• Members can execute orders over high speed Colocation network without installation of any infrastructure at Colocation by the members.

Advantages of SMA at Colocation -

Advantages for Members -

• The algo orders will be generated at Colocation and sent to the BSE Trading system via the high speed 10G Colocation network for minimum latency.

Advantages for Vendors -

• Rack space is allocated by BSE to SMA Service providers to install their algo trading application server in Colocation.
• Vendor can service multiple clients with a centralized algo server installed at Colocation. Hence, vendor's cost of maintenance is low.

Go-live status -

• Live operations started in Dec, 2014.

Members are advised to refer to exchange Notice , a link of which is provided as follows:
Colocation facility & related services.

For more details, kindly e-mail us to colocation@bseindia.com