Networking apparatus and a method for networking

A financial market network comprising:

• a networking apparatus with a plurality of communications ports and a dynamic routing module that reconfigurably interconnects communications ports with discrete data conduits,
• a management module that configures the dynamic routing module by making and/or breaking data conduits based on discrete routing commands, the routing commands being independent of physical layer signals channeled by the networking apparatus,
• a financial broadcast server that disseminates market information, the financial order server being interfaced with a service port of the networking apparatus communications ports,
• a plurality of client computing systems that receive market information from the financial broadcast server, the client systems being interfaced to client communications ports of the networking apparatus, and
• a plurality of data conduits that define transmission pathways between the service communications ports and the client communications ports to facilitate transmission of physical layer signals.