Trading floors & operations rooms
Built for work that can't stop.
Video walls the whole floor can read, multi-screen desks with the computers moved out of the room, and redundant power, network and cooling for trading floors and operations rooms that run around the clock.
Enlarged section: trading floor and equipment room
Choose a note to see where it sits. Everything here is designed so one failure never takes the room down.
Phase Integration plans, designs and manages technology for trading floors, network and security operations centers, control rooms and other spaces that run around the clock: video walls, multi-screen desks, KVM and signal distribution, raised-floor cabling, redundant power and network, and the lighting and acoustics people need for long shifts. We run the project the way a general contractor runs a job, alongside your IT and operations teams.
In these rooms, downtime is measured in money or in missed alarms. Every design decision comes back to three questions: can everyone see what they need, can the room keep running when something fails, and can people work well in it for a twelve-hour shift?
Designed for a twelve-hour shift
Operators and traders spend whole shifts in front of screens. The video wall has to be readable from the back row without straining, every desk needs the right number of screens at the right height and distance, and the room has to stay calm with dozens of people talking at once.
Moving the computers out of the room changes everything. With KVM extension, every desk's computers live in a cooled, secured equipment room, so the floor is quieter and cooler, the desks are clear, and a failed machine is swapped without anyone climbing under a desk.
Video wall
A size and resolution read from the back row, with sources routed by a controller
Shared information without anyone leaving their desk
Desk screens
The number, size, height and angle of screens at each position
Less neck and eye strain over twelve hours
Computers and KVM
Computers in the equipment room, extended to each desk
A quieter, cooler floor and faster swaps when hardware fails
Lighting
Even, glare-free light that doesn't reflect on screens, dimmable by zone
Comfortable eyes and a readable video wall
Acoustics
Absorptive ceilings and sound masking for a room full of conversations
People can hear their own calls and think clearly
Power and network
Redundant feeds, UPS and two network paths
No single failure takes the room down
What makes a room run around the clock
- No single point of failure in power, network or signal routing
- Computers serviced without disturbing the person at the desk
- Saved video wall layouts for a normal day and for an incident
- Spare capacity at every desk for the next screen
- Monitoring of every display, switch and power supply
- Work phased around trading hours or shift changes
What a trading floor or operations room needs
- A video wall the whole room can read
- Sized from the back row, with a controller that puts any source anywhere and saved layouts for an incident.
- Desks built around the screens
- Monitor arms, heights and distances set for each position, with cable management and room for one more screen.
- Computers out of the room
- KVM extension from an equipment room, so the floor stays quiet and cool and hardware is serviced in one place.
- Cabling under a raised floor
- Power and data under the floor to every desk, so positions can move without rewiring the room.
- Redundant power
- UPS and generator-backed circuits, so a failed supply never takes a desk or a rack dark.
- Redundant network
- Two paths to every critical system, so one failed switch or cable doesn't stop the floor.
- Light without glare
- Indirect, even lighting that doesn't reflect on screens, dimmable for night shifts.
- A quiet room
- Absorptive ceilings and sound masking so a full floor stays calm enough to work.
Built for a room that never stops
- Designed with operations
- We design around how each position works, with the people who sit there, not just around the floor plan.
- Planned with your IT team
- Your IT department keeps ownership of the network and its standards. We design the room and its signal paths around them.
- Cut over without downtime
- In a live room, work is phased around trading hours or shift changes, with fallbacks ready before anything is switched.
- Supported around the clock
- Monitoring, help desk and maintenance plans that match the hours the room runs.
The systems we bring
- Audio Visual TechnologyVideo walls, multi-screen desks and KVM signal distribution
- Structured CablingRaised-floor cabling, equipment rooms and the backbone
- Networking & Wi-FiRedundant network paths for every critical system
- Acoustics & Sound MaskingAbsorptive ceilings and sound masking for a full floor
- LightingGlare-free lighting, dimmable by zone
- Security & Access ControlAccess control at the doors of the room and the equipment room
- Technical SupportMonitoring and support plans that match a round-the-clock room
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Frequently asked questions
- How big should an operations center video wall be?
- Big enough that the smallest text on it can be read from the back row. The size comes from the viewing distance and the most detailed content you show, and the resolution from how close the front row sits. A controller then lets the room arrange any source anywhere on the wall.
- What is KVM and why use it on a trading floor?
- KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) extension lets each desk use computers that live in a separate equipment room. The floor is quieter and cooler, desks stay clear, computers are secured in one place, and a failed machine can be swapped without disturbing the person using it.
- How many monitors should a trading desk have?
- As many as the work needs and the person can see comfortably, often four to eight, arranged so the outer screens don't force a constant turn of the head. We plan the arms, heights and distances for each position and leave room for one more.
- How do you make a control room redundant?
- By removing single points of failure: two power feeds with UPS and generator backup, two network paths, redundant video wall controllers, and spare hardware ready to swap. The goal is that any one failure leaves the room working.
- What lighting works best in an operations room?
- Indirect, even lighting with no bright spots or reflections on screens, at a level that keeps the video wall readable, and dimmable by zone for night shifts. The lighting is designed together with the screens, not after them.
- Can an operations center be upgraded while it's running?
- Yes, with planning. The work is phased around trading hours or shift changes, temporary positions or fallbacks are set up first, and each change is tested before the old system is switched off.
Planning a trading floor or operations room?
Tell us how the room runs, how many positions it has and what it can't afford to lose, and we’ll come back with a plan for the room and everything behind it.