New York Stock Exchange will trade on Access Keyboards

1,000 Keypads have been delivered and the first units are installed in NYSE’s new 30 Broad Street trading floor extension which is ready to go live.

To win the prestigious order Access demonstrated its ability to deliver custom tooled products in exceptionally short lead times. The NYSE trading floor requires exceptional reliability as the keypads need to be available continuously during trading hours. The new keypad was therefore designed to withstand the kind of treatment normally specified for battlefield equipment. Also, to meet the NYSE’s installation specification, the keypad had to operate properly over 45 feet of cable and to be capable of being "hot plugged" while the system was live without the risk of loss of service to the trading position. EMC issues were an important design consideration as the Exchange staff and members are prolific users of mobile telephones and wireless terminals and it was essential that the keypads would not interfere or be susceptible to other equipment.

Project Director, Equity Systems at NYSE, Richard Mooney commented "We needed a new DBK keypad design for 30 Broad Street and our time scales were tight. We had spent a lot of time researching possible vendors. Access Keyboards delivered product on time and it worked."

Access Managing Director, Roger Wylie commented " We are delighted to win this order from the world’s largest and best known Stock Exchange. We were the only non-USA supplier in contention and needed to go the full distance to prove we had the capability to build a superb product . Our engineering and production teams did a great job".