STAC Report: Teak Technologies AZ-10GE with RMDS
Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) has released its first test results involving 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) technology. Teak Technologies provides 10GigE switches and NICs under the product name AZ-10GE. One of the distinguishing features that Teak claims is “Acceleration Zone Ethernet”, a hardware-based collection of algorithms that detect, diagnose and rectify networking artifacts that hinder application performance and prevent a firm from achieving the full potential of 10GigE.
STAC tested the Teak equipment using the Reuters Market Data System, designing a harness that distributed massive amounts of traffic down a single link (by simulating numerous connections from applications on a trading floor to RMDS servers in a data centre) in order to find the maximum throughput of the Teak network with and without AZ-10GE algorithms enabled. Second, STAC performed the standard RMDS latency tests using the Teak system with AZ-10GE algorithms disabled.
The results found: Peak throughput of 9.6 gigabits/second using Teak AZ-10GE algorithms, compared to 7.6 gigabits/second without AZ-10GE (in an RMDS configuration optimised for throughput); and 1 millisecond or less of mean infrastructure latency at message rates up to 450,000 updates per second (in an RMDS configuration optimised for latency). At every level of throughput, mean latencies of this 10GigE-based RMDS stack were significantly better than those of any 1 Gigabit Ethernet-based RMDS stacks that STAC has tested.
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