9 Communications software for connecting global computer networks; computer software for processing, analyzing, monitoring and routing financial data; computer software for management of financial market data; computer software for automated trading of securities; computer software for the quotation of stock exchange prices; and computer software for the provision of commercial, business and financial information, the provision of exchange services relating to shares, securities, commodities, futures and options, and the organization and operation of trading markets for financial services and financial instruments ; computer software tools and utilities, namely, protocol bridging utility for bridging data models and symbology differences between different market data implementations; command line administrative utility for interrogating and controlling network applications; data validation tools for analyzing suspicious data and quality assurance; benchmarking utilities for comparing throughput and latency of market data networks; computer hardware, namely, cascading cache distribution servers for distributing market data to independent market data infrastructures and remote offices and non-caching point-to-point servers