Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) is an open market data platform provided by Reuters

Reuters

Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...

. RMDS is used to transport, integrate and manage financial data from stock exchanges and other data sources to end users (such as a bank or enterprise) using multicast

IP Multicast

IP multicast is a method of sending Internet Protocol datagrams to a group of interested receivers in a single transmission. It is often employed for streaming media applications on the Internet and private networks. The method is the IP-specific version of the general concept of multicast...

 or broadcast technology.
The underlying Broadcast technology protocols are called Reuters Reliable Control Protocol (RRCP) and the Reuters Reliable Messaging Protocol (RRMP)

The latest version of RMDS is version 6, which uses Reuters Wire format as opposed to Marketfeed used in RMDS version 5.


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External links

• RMDS Product website
• RMDS Support website
• Sun Sun Microsystems Hardware
• Vistasource Vistasource RMDS add-in for Excel

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