Content about Latency Management

FSMLabs today announced that TimeKeeper, its groundbreaking time management software for high-speed trading and extreme time-critical applications, now runs on the Arista 7124sx and other Arista Networks switches. Arista switches are recognized by industry watchers and users of time-critical applications as the top-performing network switches in terms of speed and low-latency. The result of the TimeKeeper plus Arista combination is ultra high precision time synchronization and time resilience on a key building block of time-critical networking.

Gigamon, a world leader in Traffic Visibility Fabric solutions, announced a real-time latency measurement and analytical solution enabled through its partnership with Correlix. By enabling compatibility of the Correlix RaceTeam platform with Gigamon's flagship line of products, the H Series, which includes its highly accurate nanosecond time-stamping technology, architects and engineers of High Frequency Trading (HFT) and financial IT infrastructure are able to analyze, evaluate and tune the latency of transactions. At the heart of the solution is the Gigamon Visibility Fabric that enables analysts to pinpoint and eliminate causes of communication delay, resulting in a faster and more accurate trading cycles.

With trading systems latency now routinely measured in single-digit microseconds, the focus is shifting to maintaining its consistency, eliminating latency spikes even at the extreme outlier measurements. With such jitter impacting the effectiveness of many trading algorithms, vendors of all components in a trading architecture, as well as latency measurement specialists, are engaged in a new race to zero.

* Peter Harris, Editor, Low-Latency.com (Moderator)
* Mohammad Darwish, Chief Executive Officer, AdvancedIO Systems
* Dave Quarrell, IT Solution Architect, OnX Enterprise Solutions
* Benjamin Stephens, Electronic Trading & Quantitative Prime Brokerage Origination, Nomura International
* Henry Young, Founder & CEO, TS-Associates

With just a week to go before the London Low-Latency Summit, I thought it was the right time to preview what the agenda will bring.  Space at the new venue - the America Square Conference Centre - is limited but there's room for a few more delegates, so be sure to register today. Now, with the public service announcement/commercial over ...

While it didn't make a splash about the event, latency monitoring specialist Correlix last week acknowledged that it has raised further capital from existing investors and hired former Island and Inet exec Richard Wilkins as vice president of sales, a position that has been vacant for a couple of years. Wilkins reports to founder and re-installed CEO Shawn Melamed, who is back in the top job for the foreseeable future following the departure of former CEO Dan Connell in November 2011.

Datacom Systems announces the availability of a new matrix switch designed for co-location operators and service providers within the high frequency trading environment. The network device, known as the SingleStreamTM 2222, allows service providers (or major high frequency traders) to passively tap up to 10, 10G or 1G communication links with only minimal latency. These tapped connections can then be used by market participants' network or trade latency tools to monitor financial trading. Co-location providers may sell such tapped connectivity to end users for their own monitoring, so this device offers them the opportunity to provide higher value services to their end clients. The additional latency by inserting the SingleStream inline is less than 5 nanoseconds.

GreySpark Partners, the capital markets consultancy, has revealed that low latency requirements are no longer just the confine of the equity trading markets and that the need for speed is equal, if not greater, in other asset classes.

Corvil, a provider of latency management systems for global financial markets, today announced significant updates to its CorvilNet platform that will bring the benefits of latency management to multiple trading businesses and support teams in the same organization. This is in response to demand from customers looking to update and consolidate multiple disparate infrastructures into one common low-latency trading infrastructure that can be shared cost effectively across all businesses. Supported by a common product platform to assure performance and latency of the underlying data and transactions.

SevOne, the new leader in network performance management, today announced that its solution has been successfully deployed by TORA, a leading provider of advanced trading technology and financial services. TORA implemented SevOne to systematically monitor TORA Compass, a multi-broker multi-market trading platform, as part of the company's quality assurance program and to maintain the highest level of system reliability.

Leading UK retail and professional spread betting provider, London Capital Group (LCG), is to use Geneos from ITRS Group, to monitor and manage all elements of their trading room technology to optimise speed, latency and reliability across their data and trading technology. LCG specialises in providing online trading services for private, professional and institutional customers. Geneos will be used for real-time application monitoring across the entire infrastructure, including live and business continuity sites. ITRS is the leading global provider of predictive, real-time monitoring and proactive application performance management products to the world’s financial community.

If you work for a vendor of latency measurement technology, then you should have attended the Low-Latency Summit in New York City the other week. During the pre-lunch keynote, Nasdaq OMX principal technologist Dominick Paniscotti outlined efforts at the exchange group to measure - and so reduce - latency, and also put out a call for "innovative latency management products" to help them in those endeavors.