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Tervela has bolstered its sales staff: Jay Miller and Feargal O’Sullivan join as regional sales directors. Miller was formerly with Cisco Systems, O’Sullivan with Reuters.

The company has also added Christopher Larsen, formerly with Tibco and SAP, to its advisory board.

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In the world of low latency, it seems that benchmarks are headline news. Having readily available figures showing xxx microseconds and yyy hundreds of thousands of updates per second is a pretty sure way to get some press coverage for one’s product. Indeed, I find myself asking of vendors who are pushing their new datafeed handler, or complex event processing engine, “So, got any benchmarks for it?”
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Fixnetix has struck a global distribution deal with EuroMTS, the pan-European electronic trading platform for government and quasi-government Eurobenchmark bonds. Fixnetix will deliver EuroMTS fixed income data direct to financial firms over its iX-Direct low latency market data service.
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London-based Datastream Analysis Ltd (DSAL) - a Streambase Systems partner and application developer - has benchmarked calculations used in algorithmic trading at 200,000 calculations per second and 1.5 million updates per second, leveraging Intel’s Low Latency Laboratory in the UK.
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Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) has released results of a benchmark conducted on Exegy’s Ticker Plant (XTP), showing 80 microsecond mean latency at one million updates per second. The benchmark configuration included the Field Processor Gate Array (FPGA)-based XTP version 1.2, Mellanox Infiniband and clients running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4 on AMD multicore processors.
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I’m in the green and pleasant land, aka England, trying to partake in some R&R. But I can’t escape work, even when I am in historic Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace and later home of William Shakespeare. It seems the Bard knew a thing or two about low latency, or at least about leveraging it.
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The SWX Swiss Exchange and virt-x, its London-based securities exchange, has launched its “Trading For The Future” technology initiative, which focuses on the implementation of a high capacity, low latency trading platform. Offering at least ten times more capacity, ten times higher speed and based on technology initially used by the SWX Group for trading in warrants and structured products, the platform is is being directed to algorithmic trading and DMA.

SWX News Release

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The first SIA (now SIFMA) show I attended was in 1986. In some ways, it was quite different to the event last week, while in other ways it was pretty much the same.
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