The CME Group, which formed from a merger between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, calls itself the world’s largest financial exchange. CME said it will become an early adopter of Cisco’s new Virtual Switching System 1440, announced yesterday.Computerworld reports:
CME has tested two prerelease versions of Cisco’s new Virtual Switching System 1440 and it plans to deploy VSS in at least some of its 300 Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches. “The VSS feature will enable us to cut hardware fail-overs from 50 seconds down to two to three seconds, which is the difference between impacting customers and keeping a hardware failure from reaching the end user,” said Jim Messer, director of network services at CME Group.
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