Reuters Launches Global Market Data Latency Monitoring Solution, Partners with Endace, Trading Metrics
Reuters has launched its Reuters Latency Monitor (RLM), developed in conjunction with Endace and Trading Metrics, and billed as enabling Reuters customers to understand the amount of network delay between the origination of market data and its delivery to their trading applications.
Measurements can be made right across a network or focused on specific areas within it. The monitoring is passive, causes no additional strain on the network and needs no modifications to the existing Reuters Market Data System (RMDS).
The RLM will be delivered using Endace’s Ninjabox-LM hardware platform and the Trading Metrics software for latency performance analysis. The solution will be co-marketed by Reuters, Endace and Trading Metrics across each of their existing and prospective customer bases.
Terry Roche, executive vice president, head of strategic business, Reuters, says: “By installing the NinjaBox-powered Reuters Latency Monitor in their Reuters Market Data System networks, our customers can pinpoint and measure where latency is occurring, from the feed handler source to consuming applications, in real-time. This information can be used to measure transit point and end to end performance of market data traffic traversing the RMDS network. Our customers are able to identify bottlenecks and take action, shifting strategies within their networks accordingly.”
Endace and Trading Metrics have previously partnered to help customers improve the speed of their electronic trading transactions by providing a traffic capture mechanism that reduces network delays without impacting performance (Low-Latency.com, June 25, 2007).
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