A highly-parallel microprocessor originally developed for computer game consoles but adapted by some vendors as a co-processor for market data handling.
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An unwelcome phenomenon with long-distance fibre-optic cable, which leads to interference between data channels, and so can cause data loss. It is overcome by deploying dispersion-compensating...
The siting of servers running trading systems applications in the same data centre as a market centre’s matching engine, thus removing almost all propagation latency.
A data feed that comprises information from multiple sources - exchanges, banks and brokers - normalised into a common format for easier processing.
