Poll Results: Low Latency ‘Essential’ as Competitive Tool

Low latency delivery of market data remains a strategic capability in the highly competitive post-Crunch trading environment. High-speed data access has shifted fully into the mainstream of market data managers’ activities, it seems, with 72% of respondents to the latest Market Data Insight readers’ poll believing it to be ‘essential’ if their organizations are to compete effectively in 2009.

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05 Mar 2009
 
Poll Results: Latency Still Tops But Jitter Concerns Significant

The results of low-latency.com’s latest poll - sponsored by Realtime Innovations - on market data rate concerns shows that latency remains the biggest issue but areas such as jitter are becoming significant. Throughput is less of a concern, it appears.

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22 Dec 2008
 
The Blog of James: Does the need to process volumes of data prohibit lower latency? (Poll Results)

It seems there is a difference between what we want to be true - and what is. How does one tell the difference? I mean, don’t we all want high volumes of data processed instantaneously with no latency? Apparently, there are a few realists out there.

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06 Nov 2008
 
Poll: Market Data Concerns: Throughput, Latency or Jitter?

Recent events in the financial markets have pushed messaging rates to extremes. We know that as message rates increase, so too does latency, though hopefully not by too much. And we know that during such extremes, latency becomes less predictable - jitter creeps in.

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03 Nov 2008
 
The Blog of James: Does the need to process volumes of data prohibit lower latency? (Poll)

Face it - the amount of trade and market data that needs to be processed in order to stay apprised of the market - let alone ahead of it - is staggering and its only getting worse. Then, is the lowest achievable latency determined by bandwidth rather than throughput?

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22 Aug 2008
 
The Blog of James: Can exchanges and markets (including ECNs/ATSs/MTFs) do more to reduce latency? (Poll Results)

There is a necessary relationship between users and markets, but it seems one of them isn’t ready for a full commitment. Which could it be?

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21 Aug 2008
 
The Blog of James: Can exchanges and markets (including ECNs/ATSs/MTFs) do more to reduce latency? (Poll)

Last month most readers agreed that market data providers could do more to reduce latency. The question was generic about market data providers - especially if you consider that not everybody gets their data directly from the exchanges. So what about the exchanges and markets? Can they do more to reduce latency?

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