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During the past five months, Deutsche Börse Systems has upgraded its telecommunications backbone network that interconnects international financial centres worldwide in order to meet the rising demands for highest data throughput and ultra low latency - of particular relevance to algorithmic trading. Deutsche Börse Systems has focused on upgrading the links between major European and US financial centres. The minimum capacity was quadrupled and is now set at 1.25 Gbit/s, serving the markets of New York, Chicago, Paris, Amsterdam, Milan and Dublin. For London based customers the capacity has increased to 5 Gbit/s. This enables transmission of the entire content of an audio CD in one second. The upgraded backbone network provides to Deutsche Börse’s trading systems Eurex and Xetra - as well as for external customers and partners - a new unparalleled performance level, according to the vendor.

Deutsche Börse News Release

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Quant House, provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions, has been selected by a continental European arbitrage trading firm Arbitragis for its QuantFeed ultra low latency market data feed solution.

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Is it possible to reduce latency? The answer is probably “yes” for just about everyone reading this article. How? The latest poll at Low-Latency.com asks that very question.

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US-based high-performance messaging middleware provider 29West and Intelligent Wave Inc (IWI), integration specialist in network technologies serving the financial services industry, have formed a technology and business partnership under which IWI will be providing 29West ultra-low latency solutions and technical support to securities firms and other financial institutions in Japan.

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The February poll, addressing spend on reducing latency, at Low-Latency.com reaffirmed two platitudes that stand the test of time - the “80/20 rule” and “either you have it or you don’t”. See the graphic below.

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This monthly bulletin from the Financial Information Forum provides highlights from the FIF Consolidated Capacity Report. The full report is available to FIF members and includes capacity statistics on market data feeds distributed by NYSE Arca, SIAC, Nasdaq, CME and Deutsche Börse.

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Japan’s ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) and enterprise data fabric provider GemStone Systems say they have partnered to provide a data grid solution for financial computing systems. CTC will market GemStone’s data grid software GemFire Enterprise Data Fabric (GemFire EDF) and related software products as its high performance data access solution. The two will jointly promote the large scale grid computing environment for the needs of high performance and real-time transaction processing.

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StreamBase Systems, provider of high-performance complex event processing (CEP) software, today announced the release of its Real-Time Profit and Loss Platform for Capital Markets. StreamBase’s Real-Time Profit and Loss Platform features StreamBase’s CEP engine with high availability, visualisation tools, market data feed integrated adapters and a workflow development environment.

Streambase Systems

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STAC has released more test results on 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE), using technology from two vendors: Blade Network Technologies (BNT) and Chelsio Communications. BNT offers a 10GigE switch module for the IBM BladeCenter, and Chelsio provides 10 GigE NICs. STAC tested the technology under market data workloads because the vendors believed that the combination of the high-speed BNT switch with Chelsio’s TCP Offload Engine (TOE) would improve both latency and throughput in market data environments. The tests revealed the lowest mean latency and the lowest standard deviation of latency ever reported with RMDS.

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B2N has chosen Latency Busters Messaging (LBM) from 29West to transport data on its low latency platform. 29West’s LBM is a fast streaming messaging system targeted specifically at market data applications. The new transport uses B2N’s data representation protocol - OneThreeSeven (OTS) - capable of shrinking the size of a standard message from 200 bytes to approaching 100 bytes, improving both throughput and latency by almost 50 per cent, the vendor claims. With a local presence in the UK, Europe and the US, B2N delivers to its customers the MarketHub platform, transporting low latency financial market data.

Technorati Tags: B2N, 29West, Latency Busters Messaging, LBM, OneThreeSeven, OTS, MarketHub