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Corvil Unifies Application and Network Latency Management
Corvil has added an application layer to its network latency management system, claiming it is first to market with a unified performance management solution dedicated to latency. The move brings Corvil into an area of the latency management space heretofore dominated by the likes of TS Associates.
Solace Teams with TS-Associates for Hardware-Based Latency Measurement
Solace Systems is beta testing a version of its hardware-based Unified Messaging Platform that integrates TS-Associates’ TipOff monitoring system. The solution is aimed at helping financial firms measure and optimise latency in high-performance messaging infrastructures.
FPL Launches Inter-Party Latency Working Group
FPL - FIX Protocol Ltd. - is launching the FIX Inter-party Latency (FIPL) Working Group, according to an email sent to its membership. The group’s mission is to “develop a standard that will allow the easy assembly of this information on a consistent basis across multiple organisations so that firms can develop a better understanding of where latency hot spots exist and how they can address them.”
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New Cinnober White Paper: Lowering Door-to-Door Latency to 25 Microseconds within 18 months
New Cinnober White Paper: Lowering Door-to-Door Latency to 25 Microseconds within 18 months
Today speed is crucial to any trading venue that wants to stay competitive. At the same time, with high-frequency trading gaining an increasing share of overall volumes, the ability to manage rising transaction volumes is also a necessity.
In 2007, Cinnober published a white paper which established some best practices for measuring latency in financial markets, and publishing the results in a clear and understandable fashion. Cinnober also disclosed benchmark figures of its own trading platform with a level of transparency seen neither before nor since, showing that the context of the testing environment is of the utmost importance. Since that paper was published, latency has become a widely-used metric.
In this new white paper, Cinnober continues to explore the measurement of latency and, more importantly, what can be done to minimize it. The paper details the configurations used in recent benchmark tests on a full-blown Cinnober TRADExpress Trading System, showing how these affect the trade-off between latency and throughput. In these tests, the door-to-door latency achieved was 286 microseconds with a business logic latency of 138 microseconds. Cinnober also publishes its roadmap to further reduce latency, the goal of which is to go below 80 microseconds door-to-door within a year and 25 microseconds within 18 months.
Fixnetix Selects CorvilClear to Drive Inter-Party Latency Management FREE - A-Team Wire
Atrium Network Sees Rising Emphasis on Latency Measurement as Exchange Ring Gains Traction
As fast market access moves into the European mainstream, market practitioners are shifting emphasis away from whether they should be adopting low-latency connectivity technologies, to how fast their connections are. As a result, latency measurement is expected to emerge as a prime consideration in the coming months, as firms try to figure out the most effective way to connect to the markets they trade on.
Corvil Wins Morgan Stanley Latency Monitoring Deal; Focus Moves to Inter-Party Monitoring
Dublin-based Corvil has emerged as the winner of a hotly-contested battle to provide latency monitoring technology for Morgan Stanley’s market data distribution and electronic trading infrastructure. In doing so, it beat out several competitors after undergoing several months of testing in lab conditions set up by the investment bank. Morgan Stanley plans not only to use the technology to monitor latency of its in-house systems, but also for inter-party monitoring of latency with trading execution venues that is interacts with.
Latency Measurement to Hit Prime Time As Emphasis Shifts to ‘How Fast’
The acceptance of high frequency trading techniques has shifted the emphasis around low-latency delivery of market data from a question of whether to implement high-speed connections to one of ‘how fast?’ Market practitioners expect to see greater activity around latency measurement, as clients seek proof that they’re getting the best performance out of their execution systems.
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