CameronTec Launches Catalys, the New Industry Reference for FIX Ecosystems

CameronTec Launches Catalys, the New Industry Reference for FIX
Ecosystems

London, New York & Stockholm, Wednesday 22 September 2010: CameronTec,
the financial industry's leading provider of FIX infrastructure and
connectivity solutions and wholly owned subsidiary of Orc Software,
today announced the launch of the new industry reference for FIX
ecosystems, Catalys.  Addressing the expanding cross-functional needs of
sell and buy side firms, exchanges and ISV's, Catalys offers a highly
adaptive, integrated FIX infrastructure based on the industry's most
widely-installed FIX engine, CameronFIX.

Recognizing the increasing complexity faced by firms managing
decentralized FIX infrastructure in a global environment, Catalys
provides enhanced flexibility, control and insight… and delivers much
more than a FIX engine:

  · High Availability with newly introduced flexibility for allowing
trade-offs between optimal performance and data integrity in a variety
of topologies,
  · Unparalleled compatibility with industry standards for full JMX
monitoring, configuration and management,
  · Runtime configuration for increased operational flexibility,
  · Defined benchmark performance enhancements, and
  · Powerful developer testing tools for faster, rigorous development
lifecycle and migration — that symbiotically combines JMX and FIX
scenarios.

Anders Henriksson, CEO for CameronTec, says:  "Catalys reflects our
ongoing commitment to provide the industry with the continued and
compelling innovation our clients need in today's increasingly
competitive markets.  As an ISV, we benefit from unique insight into the
world of FIX that can only come from a concentration of the world's
largest, in-production FIX user-base.  For many firms, isolated FIX
engines do not address the additional complexities for controlling a
global FIX environment."
Max Colas, Chief Product Officer for CameronTec, adds:  “Catalys has
come about through challenging established paradigms.  Its release
signals the breaking of legacy FIX deployment patterns, and the
formation of a new connectivity cornerstone that enables users to
achieve the convergence of the flows of FIX data with the flows that
manage the FIX data.  Catalys offers an unprecedented environment to
develop, test, deploy and operate advanced FIX infrastructures.”
“Marking a new direction for CameronTec and the worldwide financial
industry, Catalys combines the strength of years of experience in FIX,
based on our long‐time CameronFIX engine, with framework additions to
develop, test, benchmark, configure, deploy and monitor FIX
infrastructure,” comments Steve Christinson, Chief Technology Officer
for CameronTec.  “Catalys targets a number of industry sweet-spots such
as latency.  In this regard we have shaved off significant performance
fat for both exchange collocation and FIX hubs, with an additional
throughput premium on the latter.”
Out of the box, Catalys provides the scalability of a management
infrastructure that uses the JMX industry standard allowing application
configuration that can be monitored and performance- controlled. Catalys
is taking FIX further. It is the next generation FIX.
In line with our commitment to respond to customer needs and deliver
performance enhancements through incremental CameronFIX version
upgrades, CameronTec will release CameronFIX Version 6.5 during Q4.
Meet CameronTec at Upcoming FIX Protocol Events.
During October and November, CameronTec will preview Catalys at a number
of key FIX Protocol organization conferences, starting with Tokyo on
October 6, Sydney October 13, New York October 21 and Stockholm November
23. Visit our stand to learn more about this latest market innovation
and meet our team members closest to you.
About CameronTec
CameronTec is the financial industry's leading provider of FIX
infrastructure and connectivity solutions.  Its latest market innovation
Catalys takes FIX further and is the new industry reference for FIX
ecosystems.  Developed specifically to address the cross-functional
needs of sell and buy side firms, exchanges and ISVs, Catalys is a
highly adaptive, integrated FIX infrastructure. 
Catalys is based on the industry's most widely installed FIX engine,
CameronFIX.  CameronFIX is universally regarded as the reference
standard for reliable, mature FIX engine applications.  It is the
outcome of 13+ years continuous investment in performance, scalability,
interoperability and robustness.  CameronFIX is today used by boutique
to larger investment firms, brokerage houses, exchanges and regulators
in 25 countries, on all five continents.
With truly dedicated customer service at the core of everything we do,
CameronTec has offices in London, New York, Chicago, Stockholm, Paris,
Hong Kong and Sydney. 
CameronTec is an Orc Software company and premier member of the FIX
Protocol organization.
www.camerontec.com (http://www.camerontec.com)
About Orc Software
Orc Software is the leading global provider of technology and services
for advanced trading in financial instruments. Orc's competitive edge
lies in its depth of knowledge of the trading world, gained by
deploying sophisticated trading solutions for over 20 years.
Orc Trading and Orc Connect provide the tools for making the best
trading and connectivity decisions with strong analytics, unmatched
market access, powerful derivatives trading support, automated trading
strategies and execution, high performance futures and options trading
capabilities, ultra-low latency and risk management.
Through the acquisition of Neonet, Orc also delivers neutral, high speed
brokerage services to professional market participants, with clients in
over 20 countries globally. With subsidiary CameronTec, Orc is the
leading provider of FIX infrastructure and low latency connectivity.
Orc's customers include leading banks, trading and market-making firms,
exchanges, brokerage houses, institutional investors and hedge funds.
Orc provides sales and quality support services from its offices across
EMEA, Americas and Asia Pacific.
Orc Software is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm (SSE: ORC).
www.orcsoftware.com (http://www.orcsoftware.com/) 
Contact
For further information contact Annie Walsh, Chief Marketing Officer,
CameronTec
Tel +44 (0)7748 633445