BT Radianz

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BT Radianz (formerly known as Radianz before being acquired by BT Group plc in 2005), operates the world's largest IP-based secure financial extranet (RadianzNet) connecting worldwide financial institutions and stock markets together. Additionally, they provide Hosting services to Financial clients at 16 Global Financial Data Centers through the Proximity and Hosting Product lines. They also offer ULTRA, their Ultra Low-latency connectivity to the major exchanges, currently launced in the NY-metro area, but soon being turned up in Chicago and London.

Originally spun off by Reuters and Equant in February 2000 to create a secure and content-neutral global IP network, the service is available in all major financial centers around the world, and provides services such as multicast feeds of market data as well as normal company-to-company connectivity among financial institutions. Under BT the global reach is expected to extend to over 100 cities using their MPLS network capabilities. This company connects the financial end users to content and trading exchanges worldwide via a secure IP environment. Many clients connect to the Radianz network and access over 200 different content providers (equities, FX, fixed income.)^[1]

In 2004, 2005, and 2006 the readers of Waters (Magazine) named BT Radianz Best Financial Network Provider.