Nasdaq OMX NLX Selects Mellanox IB

Mellanox
Technologies, Ltd announces that its IB solutions have been selected by the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ
OMX NLX) to enable fast, reliable trading.

NLX, the new London derivatives market, will offer a range of both short – and
long-term interest rate (STIRs and LTIRs) euro – and sterling-based listed
derivatives products, subject to Financial Services Authority approval. IB will
act as the server interconnect for NLX’s matching engines.

In addition to Mellanox’s IB interconnect
solutions, NASDAQ OMX NLX will use Mellanox’s VMA messaging accelerator to cut
60-to-70% of the server-to-server latency and eliminate jitter.

"Mellanox
is a well-known and trusted supplier for providing low latency solutions for
trade matching and execution," said Carl Slesser, CTO, NLX. "We are working with our partners to ensure
we offer a robust and efficient environment to trade both ends of the interest
rate curve on a single market."

"We
are delighted to partner with NASDAQ OMX NLX for this important new market,"
said Gilad Shainer, VP of market development at Mellanox. "Utilizing IB as the core server interconnect
technology provides NLX with a robust, tried and tested system that has the
capability to manage increasing volumes as this new and highly competitive
market grows."