Stock exchanges have been connecting phones direct at different trading companies for about 20 years, and now that trend of “private peering” has moved to the realm of IP. “There’s no phone call, there’s no switch; it just happens,” says Hunter Newby, chief strategy officer at telx. “That’s peering, and that’s multilateral peering. Traditionally, that’s been circuit-switched, ... (1029 words)

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