Co-location Facility

In keeping up with the global trends and in continuation of service excellence, the Exchange is facilitating its members to co-locate their NNF infrastructure at NSE premises. The co-location facility would have the following features:

• Co-location facility shall be used only for NNF trading on NSE.
• Co-location facilitates with dual UPS power source and 100% DG capacity which ensures uninterrupted power.
• Multiple Precision air conditioning units, with N+1 redundancy ensuring optimal temperature at all times.
• Co-location facility at the Exchange comes in 3 variants: Standard 42U Full Rack with 6KVA power, Half rack of 21U with 3.5KVA and Quarter rack 9U with 1.75KVA.

Related costs are as mentioned below:

* The Annual Recurring Charges (ARC) for the additional 1 pair of connectivity would be Rs 75000 + applicable taxes. Participants are requested to refer circular download ref no. NSE/MSD/61829 dated April 30, 2024 for more details on this facility.

Note:

1. Base rate for first 10 Half Rack Equivalent (HRE) racks will be as above for a participant.
2. Charges for next 15 HREs will be 25% over the base rate.
3. Charges for racks above 25 HREs will be 50% over the base rate.
4. Billing for annual recurring charges for the rack shall commence from 28 days after allotment of rack to Colo participant. However, the initial setup charges shall be applicable from the date of allotment of rack.
5.  Exchange maintains 4 separate waitlist queues for rack desire requests received.

• 1^st Waitlist - Requests submitted by members for FPI/FII clients or Domestic Investors.
• 2^nd Waitlist - New / Prospective members or CaaS vendors.
• 3^rd Waitlist - Existing members with less than 10 number of racks allotted (any variant).
• 4^th Waitlist - Existing members with 10 or more than 10 number of racks allotted (any variant).

6. Rack shall be provisioned for allotment to participant on or before 6 months on receipt of complete rack desire request (e.g. below), other than in unforeseen circumstances which are beyond control of NSE.

Example:

Please refer Exchange circular NSE/MSD/62932 dated July 13, 2024  for rack allotment process and more details.

• Backup restore facility (optional) will be charged at Rs 66000/- per rack.
• Applicable service tax shall be levied on all the above charges
• Order Connectivity and market data connectivity will be provided on 10 Gbps network port
• Members can opt from various message category mentioned below:

1. First connection on a Rack in co-location shall be provided free with message category 'A'. However, if the category of the free connection is changed to any other category then the said connection will be charged thereafter even if it is converted back to the message category 'A'.

2. For subsequent connections at colocation, applicable ARC shall be collected.

• Members may take one or more leased line/MPLS to the co-location facility from different telecom service providers for the purpose of setting up or modifying parameters, trading related activities and hardware, software, network related access, software download/upload and monitoring and data downloads. Such leased line/MPLS can terminate at the below mentioned locations:

1. 1. Members registered / dealing / branch office / Authorised Person 
   2. Members rack in Colocation facility of another recognized stock exchange in India
   3. Members owned/hired rack in a third party data center in India
   4. A common designated access point/switch/router provided for the purpose at any other recognized Exchange in India
   5. A common switch in India provided by the empanelled telecom service providers of colocation
   6. A common designated access point/switch/router provided by Financial Market Infrastructures regulated by RBI that offers trading/reporting of underlying assets on which the Exchange provides derivatives contracts.

Connectivity Service Providers in Exchange Colocation (.pdf)

• Basic IT services namely Help Desk (24*7), Hardware Checks, Incident Management (Level 1), On-site coordination, daily reports, Named resource (SPOC) for the account and Power ON/OFF / Boot on request will be provided.
• Network performance parameters such as latency figures are published on periodic basis.
• Exchange has implemented robust access control and monitoring mechanism with appropriate policies.
• Due to security reasons, physical access to co-location data centre will be restricted only to the initial set up and access for periodic or urgent maintenance if any would be only with prior permission from NSE.
• The Application form has to be accompanied by requisite Payment which has to be made by way of debit instruction of exchange due account/cheque/ demand draft drawn in favour of National Stock Exchange of India Limited payable in Mumbai.

Reference Latency Report

Download Report in accordance with SEBI circular: SEBI/HO/MRD/DP/CIR/P/2018/62 dated April 09, 2018.

Quarterly Reference Latency (.pdf)