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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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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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.

So tell us what your main concern is by participating in our poll, sponsored by Realtime Innovations. See the poll in the right margin and choose between latency, throughput and jitter.

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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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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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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I probably could have thought that the answer was obvious - of course! But not everyone agreed with me.

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This month’s poll is a straight-forward question - Do your market data providers introduce unnecessary latency? Before you answer “of course’ - not so fast! The key word is “unnecessary”.

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We asked what application most concerns you with respect to latency. The results are in! And, without a doubt the most obvious answer to the question was…

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The April poll has been posted at Low-Latency.com and it asks our viewers “What application is your latency concern?” Choices include Algorithm Trading, Smart Order Routing (SOR), Complex Event Processing (CEP), Risk analysis/Valuations, or simply “Other”.

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The March poll pondered how latency could be reduced - through software, custom hardware, or some combination thereof. Only 19 percent felt that speed could be achieved through the use of software or hardware alone. That leaves 81 percent espousing a combination of the two - or something else. What else might there be?

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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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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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The new poll at Low-Latency.com asks about cumulative spend for realizing low latency.

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The January Poll at Low-Latency.com focused on FIX and FAST usage across the industry. The results are what many in the industry view as “normal”. See the graphic below.

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There is a new poll at Low-Latency.com - and the question is subtle yet poignant. You can see the poll in the right-hand margin on the website.

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The December 2007 poll at Low-Latency.com asked where people think latency enters into the system - and while the responses were plentiful and varied - the numbers raise even more questions. See the graphic below.

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You’d have thought that several months after we started this website that we’d know what we’re about. I guess we kinda thought the world out there had already decided what is low latency, and what is not. But I guess life isn’t that straightforward.

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Last month, Low-Latency.com ran an online poll asking whether Microsoft or Sun Microsystems was better at offering low latency solutions. The result: 30 percent went with Sun, seven percent with Microsoft. But the majority - 63 percent - reckoned neither company is a player in this space.

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