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Top 20 Hedge Fund Selects Wesley Clover Solutions All-In-One IP Communications Platform for New York Offices |
| This hedge fund firm, in the midst of a project to relocate key branch
offices in New York City and Asia (at a later date), was seeking a
voice communications platform that would be suitable for both their
trading floor teams and office staff. The key decision-making criteria
included: that the system could be easily managed, offered extremely
high reliability and that the vendor have the global resources to manage
the deployment and support of both systems according to stringent service
level commitments their mission-critical trading operations required. Read More... |
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Global Online Markets Leader Selects Wesley Clover Solutions for Multi-Office IP Communications Platform |
This growing electronic market maker wanted to overhaul legacy communications
infrastructure to support a showcase executive, sales and trading office
in midtown Manhattan and connect it via IP-WAN with their US headquarters
in Jersey City, a disaster recovery/back office site in suburban New
Jersey and a recently acquired voice broking subsidiary in downtown
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Diversified Alternative Asset Manager Deploys Wesley Clover Solutions for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery |
| This Manhattan-based hedge fund with US$5B AUM needed to deploy a
voice trading solution in their hot site back-up location in New Jersey
and provide head traders and portfolio managers with home-based access
to their trading counterparties. Their existing trading turret and
PBX voice platforms were based on legacy technology so could not be
easily extended to the alternative locations and would require dedicated
T-1 facilities to the employee homes. Read More... |
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Global Reinsurer’s Capital Markets Group Standardizes on Single IP Communications Platform from Wesley Clover Solutions |
| Profile: A 200-person team of a Connecticut-based capital markets
division of a publicly-traded, international reinsurer with more than
$17B in assets and serving more than 2,000 customers in 150 markets. Read More... |
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Diversified Multi-Location Broker Dealer, Founded in 2001, With Over 150 Staff |
| The initial need was to quickly deploy a trading turret system and
associated ring down circuits that could accommodate 20 incoming traders
who were accustomed to traditional turret systems from suppliers like
IPC and leveraging the existing Nortel CS1000 PBX that was only recently
installed. Read More... |
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Down-sizing Hedge Fund Turns to Wesley Clover Solutions to Streamline Communications and Reduce Costs |
| Following significant losses in one of its funds, this Connecticut-based
alternative asset manager (US$1B AUM) decided to close that fund to
concentrate on core investment activities. In looking for ways
to streamline the operations the company’s IT team reviewed their legacy
trading turret and PBX platforms and decided that a move to an IP-based
system would enable them to introduce new applications such as mobility
and unified messaging, ensuring business continuity while reducing
the operational risk and cost of maintaining expensive legacy systems. Read More... |
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Wesley Clover Solutions Provides Energy Trading Start-Up with Small, Scalable Voice Trading Solution |
| Wesley Clover Solutions, whose client provides trade brokerage, marketing
and pricing services for USA over-the-counter (OTC) exchange traded
energy markets to energy marketers, producers, utilities, municipalities,
storage operators and hedge funds, provided a voice trading solution
“in a box” for a single trader start-up. Read More... |
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Mid-Size Investment Bank Meets All Their Needs with a Single IP Communications Platform from Wesley Clover Solutions |
| This New York-based full-service investment bank managing more than
$1B in assets, serves institutional and corporate clients throughout
the USA and overseas. The company needed to overhaul its legacy telecommunications
systems that were at risk of no longer being supported by the manufacturers
and provide expanded capabilities for their growing firm. Read More... |
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Wesley Clover Solutions Provides Multi-Location Broker Dealer with a Single, Scalable IP Voice Solution for All Locations |
| This San Francisco-based firm is a leading trader and underwriter
of fixed income securities. Faced with the prospect of a wholesale
replacement of a PBX from a bankrupt manufacturer and a legacy trading
turret system across 8 offices throughout the USA this firm chose to
work with Wesley Clover Solutions to provide a single IP voice communications
platform that could leverage their MPLS backbone and provide a scalable,
robust voice equipment infrastructure for more than 400 employees and
enable simple, centralized system monitoring and management. Read More... |
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Wesley Clover Solutions Provides Growing Broker Dealer with a Flexible and Scalable IP Communications Platform |
| This NY-based broker dealer with 40 staff embarked on a hiring binge
to bring in talented trading teams in various cities that had become
available because of the financial crisis and needed to invest in and
upgrade its communications infrastructure and systems rapidly to meet
the needs of the new employees who were used to state-of-the-art tools
and expert support at bulge bracket firms. Read More... |
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International Communications Carrier Turns to Wesley Clover Solutions for Mission-Critical Voice Solution |
| A Fortune 500 communications company operating one of the world’s
most advanced global networks selected Wesley Clover Solutions to provide
an IP voice communications platform for their Global Network Operations
Center (GNOC) in New Jersey, USA. Read More... |
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Global Hedge Fund Selects Wesley Clover Solutions for Global IP Voice Platform |
| This multi-strategy hedge fund with US$11B AUM and 200 staff had
just hired a new CTO and tasked him with an overhaul of their IT systems
and geographic expansion to open offices in London and Hong Kong. Read More... |
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