A-Team Insight Exchange is a new event series for 2010, which will combine A-Team’s expertise in financial markets IT with thought leadership from world-class technology innovators and practical experience from financial market practitioners.
Cable & Wireless Worldwide has responded to market demand for high-speed exchange connectivity with a new configuration of its International Ethernet Private Line (IEPL) network. The company reckons the newly configured network will meet the needs of high-performance traders by delivering high speed – up to 1Gb per second – as well as predictable and secure ethernet connections.






















Latency - and keeping it low - remains a concern for the financial markets. We at A-Team know, because our latest poll at low-latency.com found that 80% of respondents reckoned it will be more of a concern in the future. With all this algo and high frequency trading going on, events in the world would seem to back up what people told us. That said, 15% said that latency would be less of a concern in the future. Perhaps those people are from the old guard exchanges, like London and NYSE, who have latency improvement plans in place.
Our new poll (see the poll section on the middle right of the new low-latency.com home page) is about the subject of inter-party latency: “How important is measuring inter-party latency to your firm?” we ask. Judging by the interest in a new standards initiative focused on it, I would expect the poll to declare that it is very important.
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