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I've been running DTN/Ensign for several months now. As you may or may not be
aware, until Galaxy4 went out, both DTN and BMI used the same data source
(Bridge Data) and satellite. They still use the same data source but BMI is now
on Galaxy3 and DTN has customers on both SBS6 and Telstar5, and is slowly
transitioning those on SBS6 to Telstar5, which is much higher power than either
of the Galaxy or SBS6 satellites. After successfully implementing complex
satellite switch, I was up an running on SBS6 within a couple of days but around
50% of DTN's realtime users were not so lucky and lost a week or more until the
Telstar5 solution was found.
The data feed is excellent and probably pretty much identical to BMI since the
source and symbols are the same. I'm told that DTN does have quite a bit more
bandwidth but this is probably not relevent unless you need to collect the full
gamut of option symbols. DTN customer service has been fantastic. The rates are
about half of BMI's. Considering that satellite failures are rare, I would
recommend contacting DTN for rates and then contacting BMI to see if they will
offer a significant rate reduction. DTN offers a free trial month (actually
about 40 days) and while you'll need to provide a CC number for security, the
out of pocket cost to try DTN is zip, nada, nothing.
Earl
-----Original Message-----
From: Langben@xxxxxxx <Langben@xxxxxxx>
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 9:49 AM
Subject: DTN versus BMI
>Tradestation 5 will be able to handle DTN real time.
>DTN pricing seems to be priced quite a bit under BMI.
>Does anyone have any experience with DTN?
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