NYSE Euronext is opening its recently built data center in Mahwah, New Jersey, to third-party carriers and vendors that serve the financial-services community. These companies can now take colocation space at the data center and provide services to NYSE customers there.

This means customers in Mahwah will have service-provider choices beyond NYSE. “For the first time, the financial services vendor community now has the opportunity to acquire data center space and offer their services within NYSE Technologies’ state-of-the-art liquidity center,” the company said.

Stanley Young, CEO of NYSE Technologies, said the company’s vision was to create a unique environment that enables global trading for customers of all sizes anywhere in the world.

“Our US liquidity center offers customers a wide range of technology solutions and services whether they are designed and deployed by NYSE Technologies or any of the third-party vendors serving the financial industry,” Young said.

The company also has a liquidity center in Basildon, UK, which it is also opening up to third-party vendors.

To enable access for traditional telco carriers, for example, NYSE is building out new meet-me rooms at the Mahwah facility. These rooms will open in the first quarter of 2013 and will offer direct access to telco providers.

Additional carrier access will give options beyond the existing SFTI Optic, IP, Wave and VPN services currently supported for customers that want to connect from outside the data center. Customers will also have more flexibility in deploying direct fiber cross-connects to other colocation customers.

NYSE explained the changes as a response to customer needs for lower barriers to access importang market services, such as colocation, market data and third-party applications.

The company expects to open up access in a similar manner at the UK data center in the third quarter of 2012.