LAND LUBBERS AND SHIPMATES PLEASE NOTE:-
Brighton based BEACON ETS stress tested Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg Trading products at Sea, April 15th 2013.
Chris Smith, Founder and Senior Technical Consultant and 'Salty Sea Dog' at Brighton based, Beacon ETS, Explains:-
"Over the weekend 13-15th April 2013, LJE and Beacon ETS successfully tested Thomson
Reuters Eikon and Bloomberg Professional Service at Sea. Utilising existing ship based Ku-Band Satellite
Broadband connection, travelling deep sea, between Gibraltar and Palma, Majorca.
Beacon ETS (trading as LJE Ltd) are a Market Data and Open Source I.T Solutions provider.
Specialising in design and installation/support of bespoke Solutions and Infrastructures for
Investment Banking and Private Investors, since 2003.
Many motor yachts like Slipstream, are already fitted with Sea Tel satellite systems, designed to provide robust and reliable internet connectivity in
all weathers and sea conditions.
Beacon ETS completed full stress testing, for major Market Data vendors' products, using produces defined in Project 'Trade Outside' aka Blue Ocean.
The testing was conducted with the full support of Livewire Connections Ltd , Slipstream Motor Yacht's VSAT airtime, IT service provider, crew onboard, Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg.
During the sea journey of 30 hours/540 nautical miles (some of which in Storm force winds),
Beacon Super Yacht Electronic Trading Solutions, were well away from terrestrial GSM/3G
services and were completely reliant on the yacht's satellite system for internet access.
Using the yacht's standard satellite internet connection Bandwidth (512k), Beacon ETS were able to confirm
that Thomson Reuters Eikon and Bloomberg Anywhere performed extremely well, with 4000+ realtime instruments in Excel and full featured desktop applications. The tests were re-run numerous times during the journey, including Asian, European and U.S Market Open, over the variable latency link and various weather conditions.
The crew continued their normal duties and used the shared broadband link without being affected by the Market Data testing.
The Sea Tel VSAT system, fitted to the yacht and the vendors latest products, proved to work efficiently and provided very light Bandwidth usage figures (max 200kb/s), with no loss of connectivity or features, during the testing period.
Some additional tests where also performed during the time onboard Slipstream and in some pretty rough sea conditions, using apple Macbook Air with Oracle VirtualBox, (desktop virtualisation ) making the results even more impressive! "
Now, after the test's successful completion and with deep benchmarks planned, a new opportunity is available for other trading technology solutions and vendors to 'get onboard!'
The future looks interesting, as other existing trading technology solutions and vendors can adapt their products to utilise Fixed Land Site, or Satellite Broadband + Private Leased Line solutions in the Mega yacht sector.
Large privately owned motor yachts and charter guests can now request access to full Professional Trading production versions, for retrieval of real time Market Data and manipulate positions in realtime, whilst at sea.
For the Time being 'Step outside for Summer !' ........Trade OutsideTM....Sea, Land or Air, Trade like the office but without restriction and follow the sun.
For more information on Motor Yacht Slipstream please visit:
For further information or detailed technical results of the test and equipment used, please contact:
LJE Ltd (Beacon ETS)
Chris Smith
Founder and Senior Technical Consultant.
Tel: 01273 317 187
For information on Livewire Connections Ltd
David Walker
Sales Director
