Case Study: Breakwater Trading achieves faster real-time Excel data sharing with Cogent DataHub

Breakwater Trading - Customer Case Study

Breakwater Trading, a trading firm with operations in New York and Chicago, needed a faster way for more than 100 traders and managers to access real-time market data and analytics in Excel. Instead of sharing spreadsheets, they wanted a solution that could distribute live data quickly and be easy to implement, so they turned to Cogent DataHub’s VINE software for a peer-to-peer networking approach.

Cogent DataHub implemented a VINE-based setup centered on a server in Chicago, with mirrored instances and a relay server in New York to distribute live data to traders’ workstations. The result was a dramatic performance improvement: Breakwater cut its data update cycle from about a minute on its old system to less than a second, with strong stability and no noticeable drop in performance as more users were added.

Breakwater Trading

Darek Potchebout

Director of Technology and Operations