Private wires, reimagined.

Turrets were built for a different era.

Dedicated private wires and dealer boards tie six-figure budgets to physical hardware, weeks of telco provisioning, and a trading floor everyone has to sit at.

whoot. extends and modernises private wires, turrets and legacy PBX with a cloud-native, encryption-first voice platform purpose-built for trading floors.

Legacy turret audit, per seat

£50K–£200K per seat a year

Dedicated physical lines per counterparty: capital locked in hardware.

6–12 week provisioning

Every new circuit means telco lead time before a single word is spoken.

Tied to the floor

Little to no remote or hybrid support: traders must sit at the turret.

Siloed recording

A separate capture system to meet MiFID II: another stack to run and reconcile.

Single point of failure

One circuit down and the desk goes silent.

Ageing hardware

Vendor support winding down; spares and expertise getting scarce.

Everything the trading floor demands.

Purpose-built for traders: always-on voice, dedicated infrastructure and compliance recording in one platform.

MiFID II and Dodd-Frank

Every voice communication recorded, retained and retrievable. Regulatory recording out of the box.

End-to-end encryption

AES-256 in transit and at rest. DTLS-SRTP for all media. Zero-trust architecture.

Full recording

Tamper-proof with speaker ID, timestamps and 7+ year retention. Keyword search in seconds.

<20ms server-side

Sub-20ms server-side packet forwarding at the SFU, behind <150ms end-to-end mouth-to-ear latency. Methodology below.

Dedicated infrastructure

Your own isolated media servers, not shared multi-tenant. Guaranteed capacity in your preferred region.

90-second setup

No telco provisioning. No hardware. Sign up, create rooms, talk.

PSTN dial-out

Dial any phone number worldwide from a voice room. Counterparties join by phone; no app needed.

Global network

London, Paris, Frankfurt, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney. Intelligent routing for the fastest path.

Unlimited rooms

Sales desk, rates, FX spot, EM: unlimited always-on rooms. No per-seat turret costs.

Latency methodology. Marketing figures reference end-to-end (mouth-to-ear) latency under typical intra-region network conditions, measured against the ITU-T G.114 recommendation of <150ms one-way for “user satisfaction not noticeably affected.” Server-side processing, first RTP packet ingress to first RTP packet egress at whoot.’s SFU, is <20ms. End-to-end latency depends on client device, codec packetisation (Opus ptime 20ms), jitter-buffer depth and last-mile network conditions; typical intra-region mouth-to-ear is 90–120ms.

Compliance is not a feature request.

MiFID II requires investment firms to record all voice communications related to transactions. Dodd-Frank mandates recording and retention of swap-dealer communications. whoot. was built from the ground up to meet these obligations, not retrofitted.

Frameworks

MiFID II · Dodd-Frank · FCA · MAR

Architecture

SOC 2 Type II ready

Encryption that never compromises.

Every byte of voice data is encrypted: no exceptions, no optional toggles.

Encrypted in transit

DTLS-SRTP for all media streams. TLS 1.3 for signalling. Perfect forward secrecy keeps past sessions secure.

Encrypted at rest

AES-256 for all stored recordings and transcripts. Customer-managed keys and data residency for regulated jurisdictions.

Access control

SAML SSO, enforced MFA, 50+ RBAC permissions. IP allowlisting and separation of duties.

Audit and monitoring

Immutable audit logs. Real-time anomaly detection. SIEM integration for your SOC.

Your own dedicated trading infrastructure.

No shared resources. Isolated media servers with guaranteed capacity, just like the circuits you are replacing, without the hardware.

• Isolated media-server instances per org
• Guaranteed capacity: no noisy neighbour
• Hot standby failover with <50ms switchover
• 99.999% uptime SLA for enterprise
• Private network peering available

Regions

London · Paris · Frankfurt · New York · San Francisco · Tokyo · Singapore · Sydney

Legacy turrets, and whoot.

Dealer boards and private wires were never designed for cloud-native, remote-ready, sub-150ms trading voice.

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How trading desks use whoot.

From FX spot to risk management: always-on voice for every desk.

FX spot desk

Always-on voice to brokers. Price requests, fills and market colour in real time. Every word recorded.

Rates and fixed income

Persistent rooms between desk, sales and risk. When the curve moves, the whole desk hears it immediately.

Equities sales trading

Cross-connect with execution desks over always-on voice. Push-to-talk, and counterparties hear you in <150ms end-to-end.

Risk and portfolio management

Instant coordination when markets move. A single push-to-talk reaches every PM simultaneously.

Live in 90 seconds.

No hardware. No telco. No procurement. No IT tickets.

0 s · Sign up

Email and password, or SSO. No credit card.

15 s · Create org

Name your org. Invite traders.

45 s · Create rooms

FX, rates, EM: one click each.

90 s · Talk

Push-to-talk. Fully recorded. Done.