PRIZMNET AND NASDAQ MARKET DATA SERVICES
ACCELERATE YOUR ACCESS TO NASDAQ WITH COLT PRIZMNET
The U.S. equity markets represent 42.6% of the $115.0 trillion in global equity market cap, or $49.0 trillion; this is 3.9x the next largest market, the EU. With U.S. fixed-income markets comprising 39.3% of the $140.7 trillion securities outstanding across the globe, this is also 2.1x larger than the EU market. Entities worldwide—whether in the EU, Asia, or the Americas—need secure, resilient, and always-on access to this dynamic trading ecosystem. That’s why Colt PrizmNet delivers direct, high-performance connectivity to Nasdaq, empowering firms to capitalise on the depth and speed of one of the world’s most influential markets.
Colt’s PrizmNet is a financial extranet, built to deliver secure, resilient and ultra-low-latency connectivity to global capital markets. Through Colt’s network, customers gain direct access to key Nasdaq services including TotalView ITCH, Level 2 (NQDS) and Global Index Data Service (GIDS) – empowering real time trading, analytics and decision making with speed and accuracy.
NASDAQ US SERVICES AVAILABLE VIA PRIZMNET
Colt supports a comprehensive suite of Nasdaq services:
NASDAQ Basic & NLS Plus – providing real time quote and trade data
NASDAQ Fund Network (NFN) – fund-level data distribution
NASDAQ Global Index Data Service (GIDS) – index values and constituents
NASDAQ Level 2 (NQDS) – depth of book data
NASDAQ TotalView ITCH – full order book visibility
NASDAQ UTP Quotes & Trades – consolidated and regional data
UNLOCKING VALUE FROM NASDAQ CONNECTIVITY
GLOBAL REACH
Colt PrizmNet connects you to the world’s leading global exchanges and trading venues, including direct access to Nasdaq US. This extended reach gives you the flexibility to trade seamlessly across regions and access high value-market data with confidence. Whether you’re focused on Nasdaq or operating across multiple markets, Colt ensures you stay connected to what matters the most.
HIGH RESILIENCY AND DISASTER RECOVERY
Colt’s infrastructure is built for uninterrupted access to Nasdaq market data and trading services, even in the face of unexpected disruption. With robust disaster recovery, PrizmNet ensures your Nasdaq connectivity remains secure, stable and always on.
SEAMLESS CONNECTIVITY AND SERVICE MONITORING
Powered by Colt’s proprietary Market Data Monitoring System (MMS), our solution delivers low-latency, real-time insights into service performance, ensuring seamless market data feed analysis and usage across the PrizmNet network.
ULTRA-LOW LATENCY NETWORK SERVICES
Built for the most demanding high-frequency trading, Colt’s ultra-low latency network services connect you to Nasdaq US using high-speed fiber links, minimal media converters, hops and network devices, ensuring your Nasdaq data flows quickly and reliably, giving you the edge in executing multi-asset strategies, reacting to tighter spreads and capitalizing on shorter opportunity cycles.
COLT’S GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKETS FOOTPRINT

Colt’s Global Capital Markets Footprint
Colt’s financial market solutions are underpinned by the Colt IQ Network – a 100Gbps optimised intelligent network – distributed to more than 32,000+ on-net buildings, 1,100+ data centres and hundreds of data network connection points around the globe.
With the flexibility and agility to meet the market’s requirements, Colt continues to enhance its connectivity offering to ensure its market leadership across the world.
WHY CHOOSE COLT FOR NASDAQ CONNECTIVITY?
With over 30 years of experience in financial services and access to the world’s leading global exchanges and trading venues, plus connectivity to 10,000+ financial institutions, Colt delivers trusted, ultra-fast access to Nasdaq – supporting a community of over 10,000 financial sector firms globally.
Our solutions are designed to reduce risk and complexity and accelerate your time to market with rapid implementation, end-to-end SLAs, flexible contracts and service-based pricing.
Colt’s US infrastructure features PoPs in New York and Chicago – providing a high bandwidth backbone, delivering secure, low-latency market data feeds built to handle the high-volume demands of US exchanges with speed and reliability.
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