Equitec Proprietary Markets LLC, a global proprietary trading group with market making and specialist operations on eight domestic exchanges and additional international exchanges, today announced that it has placed into production a ticker plant system from InfoDyne Corporation.

Equitec's new ticker plant is driven by direct exchange feeds provisioned by SAVVIS Communications (NASDAQ:SVVS), the leading managed IP and managed hosting services provider to the global financial community. SAVVIS delivers direct market data and transaction exchange feeds as part of its award-winning Financial Xchange(SM) network, which guarantees the highest level of performance, reliability, security and quality of service.

Equitec said it chose to deploy an InfoDyne ticker plant solution, rather than continuing to rely on traditional market data vendor feeds, after determining that it would gain competitive advantage by getting the data faster while also saving money by eliminating costly market data vendor fees.

The InfoDyne ticker plant now driving Equitec's trading and back office applications replaces real-time quote feeds from various market data feed vendors. Equitec is now expanding the ticker plant to serve its affiliates and correspondents nationwide. The InfoDyne ticker plant receives direct exchange feeds from Nasdaq, CTA, OPRA, and other providers and delivers the data to a variety of proprietary Equitec applications using InfoDyne's object-based Middleware2 distribution and API technology.

Equitec said its decision to deploy its own ticker plant followed a thorough evaluation of offerings from several leading consolidated vendors. "When your business depends on real-time trading applications you simply can't afford to miss data or suffer the delay imposed by the vendors in delivering information," said Jeff Wagner, Chief Information Officer at Equitec.

"Even the fastest vendor feed averages half-second latency, and at market open we've seen delays measured in seconds. The InfoDyne ticker plant eliminates that latency by letting us access the same exchange feeds vendors use to feed their systems. SAVVIS has also been very efficient and has lived up to all our expectations from day one. We have been very pleased with their service and support," Wagner added.

"When we started offering ticker plants ten years ago, the demand was small and in-house plants fed a handful of specialty applications," said Guy Tagliavia, President of InfoDyne. "Today the idea of having your own ticker plant has gone mainstream because traders are looking for every possible advantage, and getting data faster, at reduced cost, and more reliably appeals to firms of every size."

"Many of the exchange feeds at Equitec are carried by SAVVIS Communications, our alliance partner for global product sales and service. We find that specialty firms, like Equitec, are leveraging high performance global IP networks like SAVVIS' and infrastructure products like ours in ways that the industry giants have also learned to appreciate," Tagliavia added.

About Equitec

Equitec Proprietary Markets offers a combination of intellectual capital and proprietary trading technology from multiple leading options and equity market makers and specialists. The Equitec family is made up of over 200 professionals dedicated to providing the most efficient, reliable and liquid marketplace to global securities investors. Equitec has developed state-of-the-art valuation, quoting, position management and order routing technologies that support a broad network of specialist and market maker operations in traditional and electronic exchange environments. Equitec offers its customers the most efficient price discovery and execution solutions by merging the liquidity of the floor with the efficient price discovery and execution of the electronic trading environment.

About InfoDyne

InfoDyne Corporation ( www.infodyne.com ) provides market leading enterprise products and solutions to the financial marketplace. With a commitment to "encapsulate your enterprise(TM)", InfoDyne focuses on enterprise-wide solutions that include ticker plant, straight through processing, and object-based middleware technology -- solutions that offer a quantifiable market advantage, a reduced cost of ownership, and a high rate of return.

InfoDyne's Exchange Servers process direct exchange and ECN feeds, including all North American and most major global exchange feeds, to provide dramatically faster data delivery than traditional market data consolidators, and at a significantly lower cost. InfoDyne's Destination Servers offer direct trade and order routing to major exchanges, ECNs, and other trading partners. All InfoDyne products are compatible with the leading client site system solutions currently in the market, including InfoDyne's own object- based Middleware2 technology. InfoDyne's Ticker Plant, Straight Through Processing, and Middleware2 system solutions are deployed on-site within a customer's own data center, or as a fully managed service at a shared data center facility.

About SAVVIS

SAVVIS Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:SVVS) is a global managed service provider that delivers IP VPNs, both private and public, and managed hosting services to businesses. SAVVIS targets the financial services industry and other enterprises with demanding network and hosting requirements such as legal, media, retail, professional services, and healthcare. Known as The Network that Powers Wall Street(SM), SAVVIS connects to more than 4,700 financial institutions worldwide and provides a portfolio of services via Financial Xchange(SM). Its customer base is 30% financial services, with 80% of its revenue derived from Managed IP VPNs.

SAVVIS' IP VPNs were named Product of the Year for 2001 by the editors of Network Magazine, surpassing well-known VPN providers such as AT&T, WorldCom, Sprint and Genuity. The company was ranked the eighth fastest-growing technology company in North America on the 2001 Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, and was recently awarded Frost & Sullivan's 2002 Market Engineering Award for Product Differentiation Innovation for its managed hosting services. SAVVIS was recently awarded Boardwatch's Service Provider Excellence Award for their virtualized approach to managed hosting.

For more information about SAVVIS' Intelligent IP Network(SM) and managed hosting solutions, visit: http://www.savvis.net/ .