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Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) is a leading global investment banking firm serving institutional, corporate, government and individual clients. CSFB’s businesses include securities underwriting, sales and trading, investment and merchant banking, financial advisory services, investment research, venture capital, correspondent brokerage services and online brokerage services. It operates in over 76 locations across more than 37 countries and 6 continents, and has some 27,000 staff worldwide.
RWA helped Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) achieve their main goal of creating a more open messaging environment for their equities trading system that has in turn created a flexible trading environment.
X.25 Line Handler
RWA designed and delivered an "X.25 Line Handler" that would handle all X.25 communications between the bank's brokerage customers and the new trading system. The Line Handler was required to:
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Handle up to 1,500 simultaneous connections
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Handle all X.25 packets and maintain broker sessions
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Validate incoming connection requests
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Perform initial message validation
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Be highly resilient
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Handle up to 250 messages per second
Simplified and Flexible Communications Solution For The Trading Application
RWA also simplified the communications layer of the broker desktop trading application and reduced the complexity of the environment installed in the broker's offices. To accomplish this, RWA was able to draw upon its own library of Wide Area Network (WAN) components. The new solution also gives offers greater flexibility and the ability to work with a range of network interface cards and communications protocols.
IP Line Handler
RWA also delivered an Internet Protocol (IP) version of the Line Handler described above.
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