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Global exchange Nasdaq plans to carry out a technology upgrade at one of the world's leading trading hubs that will bring more power and higher bandwidth to the rack at its colocation facility at a degree seen in no other colocation facility.

It said the result will be a colo offering designed for trading with the fastest and highest bandwidth service with the highest power per cabinet.

As part of its new Access Services offering it is offering Super Cab, designed to bring 17KW to the cabinet for high density trading environments and in April it will plans to become the first exchange to offer 40Gbe Client Connectivity from the client cabinet to the NASDAQ switch.

The changes are taking place at Nasdaq's OMX data center in Cartaret, New Jersey, US.

According to NASDAQ VP of Transaction Services Stacie Swanstrom the upgrade will shave about seven microseconds off the time for 10Gbe communications round trip.

This will provide clients inside Nasdaq’s colocation center with the fastest access yet to Nasdaq OMX markets and data feeds for algorithmic trading.

Swanstrom said the Super Cab solution, meanwhile, will also use "innovative cool trading equipment" that can draw hot equipment exhaust into a custom cabinet chimney to ensure servers can run at maximum power and be highly efficient.

“Firms are never constrained by the number of servers in a rack but by the power,” Swanstrom told Wall Street Technology.

“The servers are getting smaller and more dense but they still draw a lot of power.”

You can hear more about the trends taking place in data center in the New York region in our upcoming edition of FOCUS, where DatacenterDynamics New York will be previewed. Subscribe for your copy here.