Exegy Nexus™: Your Next-Generation FPGA Platform
Speed Without Sprawl.
Exegy Nexus™ is a next-generation market data appliance that optimizes infrastructure, reduces latency, and simplifies operations across the entire trading lifecycle. By combining centralized feed handling, FPGA acceleration, and embedded Layer 1 fan-out, Nexus delivers normalized, application-ready data with unmatched determinism—without the server sprawl of traditional architectures.
Purpose-built for performance in highly constrained data centers, Nexus helps firms trade faster, scale smarter, and operate more efficiently.
Download Product SheetWhat Sets Exegy Nexus™ Apart?
Most market data processing stops at ingestion and normalization—leaving algo developers, SOR engineers, and market makers to manage the downstream firehose. Exegy Nexus™ is different.
It centralizes feed handling, preprocessing, book building, and arbitration within a managed FPGA appliance, then delivers clean, normalized data directly into shared memory. This reduces server count, CPU usage, jitter, and operational overhead.
The result: reduced system load, a simpler data path, and more deterministic performance across the entire trading stack.
Every strategy has its own latency profile and ExegyNexus™ meets you where you trade.
With both traditional NIC and FPGA-powered SmartNIC options, Nexus lets firms align performance to the needs of each trading application—without changing architecture or rewriting code.
Whether you’re optimizing for nanoseconds or microseconds, Nexus delivers consistent performance through a unified offload pipeline that scales across asset classes and desks.
Exegy Nexus™ replaces fragmented market-data systems with a single, enterprise-grade architecture that unifies all desks, asset-classes and latency profiles.
It brings together:
- FPGA-accelerated or software feed handlers
- Embedded Layer-1 fan-out for ultra-fast pub/sub
- Shared-memory publication for low-jitter data delivery
- API-driven control: configuration, resynchronisation, snapshots
- Built-in option to add FPGA tick-to-trade order execution capabilities
By consolidating disparate systems into one standardized platform, Nexus dramatically reduces vendor sprawl, simplifies operations, lowers total cost of ownership and accelerates the rollout of new strategies. Features such as centralized monitoring, entitlement management and hardware-config choice ensure firms can support both ultra-low-latency trading and enterprise-scale analytics from the same infrastructure.
How it Works: Processing Market Data with the End in Mind
Unified Global Access
• Serves every desk delivering deterministic performance across the latency spectrum
• Embedded market data entitlement from a centralized location
• Configurable hardware options to choose from (AMD X3 or Bittware XUV-V8 card)
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FPGA Acceleration at the Edge
•Throughput stays consistent even during high-volume bursts
•Latency remains deterministic preserving predictable delivery paths
•Critical applications are protected from unexpected congestion or slowdown
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Datacenter Footprint Reduction
• Single CPU core usage per server for market data delivery
• Polling-free shared memory publication reducing overhead
• Deterministic event delivery even during peak market activity
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The New Standard for Trading Infrastructure
Legacy architectures force a trade-off between speed and scale. Exegy Nexus™ removes it — combining FPGA acceleration and centralized efficiency in a single hybrid platform. The result: a smaller footprint, deterministic performance, and lower operational risk.
Designed for the Way You Trade
Solving real-world challenges in market data infrastructure
For Agency Brokers
Process market data more efficiently, delivering tailored data to downstream applications while reducing footprint and slippage.
For Market Makers
Deliver market data at nanosecond speeds, delivering deterministic data to strategies where latency protects your alpha.
For Multi-desk
Fuel market data across every latency profile, equipping all desks with one premium platform for consistent, enterprise-wide performance.
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