1. A financial market data network, comprising: one or more initial communication interfaces adapted to facilitate communications between the network and one or more external financial exchanges that provide raw financial market data; one or more secondary communication interfaces adapted to facilitate communications between the network and one or more external consumers of the raw financial market data provided by the one or more external financial exchanges; at least one specialized switch situated between at least one of the initial communication interfaces and at least one of the secondary communication interfaces, wherein said at least one specialized switch includes switching fabric that is adapted to facilitate communications between the one or more external financial exchanges and the one or more external consumers; and at least one feed handler situated within or proximate said at least one specialized switch and arranged to receive raw financial market data directly from the one or more external financial exchanges without the received raw financial market data first traveling through any of the switching fabric, wherein said at least one feed handler is adapted to process the received raw financial market data into a normalized format before the financial market data is sent to the one or more external consumers.