KVH Provides Proximity Solutions to Deutsche Borse for Algorithmic News Feed in Tokyo

- Supporting Traders for Ultra Low-Latency Market Data Connections –

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KVH Co. Ltd. (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Richard Warley, hereinafter referred to as "KVH") announced today that Deutsche Borse Market Data & Analytics has selected a suite of proximity and ultra low-latency solutions "KVH Trading Avenue" for its new algorithmic news feed "AlphaFlash" in Tokyo. This is the second Asia-Pacific location for offering "AlphaFlash" and enables both local and overseas traders to directly access this cutting-edge news feed from a complete hosting environment with the lowest latency possible.

“As Japan is home to a quickly developing algorithmic trading community, it is an important location for AlphaFlash's expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. The KVH Trading Avenue will allow us to provide customers with fast, low-latency access to our algo news feed”

"AlphaFlash" is now available in nine data centers globally, including co-location and proximity hosting options in Chicago, New Jersey, Washington, Frankfurt, as well as London and Sydney. Launched in April 2010, AlphaFlash delivers more than 175 machine-readable economic indicators from the U.S., Canada and Europe at millisecond speeds. Data content includes central bank interest rate decisions, employment numbers, housing statistics and gross domestic product figures. A version of AlphaFlash that includes macroeconomic data from Asia-Pacific is currently being beta tested and is scheduled to go into full production in 2011.

"As Japan is home to a quickly developing algorithmic trading community, it is an important location for AlphaFlash's expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. The KVH Trading Avenue will allow us to provide customers with fast, low-latency access to our algo news feed," said Georg Gross, Head of Front Office Data & Analytics at Deutsche Borse.

"We are very excited to have AlphaFlash available within our Trading Avenue environment as our customers will certainly benefit from gaining access to this algorithmic news feed. As a market leader in proximity solutions in Japan, KVH continues to improve its service performance to help energize the trading market," said Dr. Zhongmin Guo, Vice President, Telecom and International Business Unit of KVH.

Combining high-speed optical fiber networks with data centers located close to major domestic exchanges, "KVH Trading Avenue" offers the ideal managed environment for supporting algorithmic electronic trading with multiple exchanges from a single location. Moreover, "KVH Trading Avenue" has now expanded its geographic reach to Hong Kong and Singapore and soon to Chicago via its own network points of presence, and to other key financial cities in Asia, the U.S. and Europe via an optimized network consisting of multiple carriers.

About KVH

KVH was established in Tokyo in 1999 by Fidelity Investments as a Japan focused IT/communications service provider. KVH offers integrated communications and IT management solutions that include managed services, data center services, professional services, data networking, internet access, and voice services to business customers. KVH operates the lowest latency network in Japan, and with over 450 financial services customers, is the leading provider of ultra low latency network and proximity hosting solutions to the high frequency trading community in Tokyo and Osaka. KVH also offers low latency connectivity services between major financial markets in the Asia/Pacific region and the US including Tokyo, Chicago, New York, Singapore, Hong, Kong, Shanghai, and Sydney. More information on KVH can be found at www.kvh.co.jp/en/