Large-scale deployments involving greater numbers of end-users in multiple locations globally have dictated the new developments at the heart of Slingshot Version 1.6. As a result of growing demands among end-user institutions, the number of positions supported by the Slingshot Data Pump has been increased in this latest release to 1024. In addition, load sharing of multiple Data Pumps is supported. An even greater degree of user access permissioning has been enabled in the implementation of field content permissioning by the Slingshot Security Manager.

Traditionally, financial and trading institutions have had two choices when it came to distributing mission critical data – either use the proprietary systems, or build their own distribution network – both extremely costly. The advent of the Internet however, has provided institutions with a third option: an infrastructure across which their market data can be distributed.