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London Stock Exchange Market Access Workstation Extranex Connectivity Guidance Note  Overview Market Access Workstation products are designed to provide fully functional trading access to the Exchange’s systems with minimal implementation and testing requirements. The current accredited MAW products are Reuters LXT and Thomson Financial Global Topic Trader. The purpose of this guide is to provide MAW customers with the necessary technical information to assist them in their migration to Extranex. Further information on Extranex connectivity can be found in the Network Specification (TIS103) Issue 9, and is available from the technical library on the London Stock Exchange website at: /techlib/sets/network_spec_index.asp Connection Type MAW Customers will connect to the Exchange via a Service Access Point (SAP) installed at a customer site. Depending on bandwidth requirements, customers will connect either over an Extranex 64 or an Extranex 128 - 2000 connection. Extranex 64 It is expected that most MAW customers will connect over an Extranex 64 connection. This consists of single 64k circuit terminated at a Cisco 1750 router with a parallel ISDN line for resilience. It is the responsibility of the customer to order ISDN for use with the Extranex 64 service - any existing ISDN currently used for X.25 connectivity cannot be used. The Exchange supports the use of a standard Basic Rate ISDN service such as the ISDN2e service from BT. The Extranex 64 service does not stipulate the use of additional ISDN features such as Caller Line Identification (CLIP) or Multiple Subscriber Numbering (MSN). Extranex 128 - 2000 Customers may choose to connect via an Extranex 128-2000 option, which consists of two circuits terminating into two Cisco 2621 routers. The circuits are available in a range of bandwidths from 128kbps to 2Mbps.  Network Requirements Any customer network equipment must be connected directly to the router(s) installed as part of the Extranex connection