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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Connectivity plan, bill of materials?

Also known as: connectivity plan · bill of materials

Definition 29.1 Networks, Hardware and Trading Infrastructure · Chapter 29 — Build a Connectivity Plan

A connectivity plan is a firm’s document, kept as data, that states for each venue it trades the latency it needs and how it will get it: the sites, routes, connections and services it will buy, their service levels and recovery arrangements, and their cost. Its bill of materials is the itemised list of everything to be bought, with quantity, supplier, price and the dated source of each price.

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