Fremont, California-based ClearSight Networks, a specialist in the area of network monitoring and analysis, plans this month to introduce a new product for the financial markets focused on latency monitoring and identifying packet loss. To date, the company has introduced solutions for monitoring and long term storage and analysis for IPTV, VoIP and data mining applications.

Click here for a whitepaper outlining ClearSight’s approach to latency monitoring.

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In the post-MiFID European trading landscape, new competition to traditional exchanges has forced down exchange fees and encouraged the adoption of new, low-latency technologies that speed up the trading process. With liquidity increasingly fragmented, forward-thinking institutions stand to gain market share by investing in liquidity discovery solutions. Those deciding against embracing the change do so at their peril.

A-Team has authored a new Industry Briefing which examines how MiFID is changing the face of liquidity in Europe and shows how a low-latency liquidity discovery solution can turn the challenge into an opportunity.

Liquidity Discovery in Post-MiFID Europe

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From RTI …

Increases in data volumes over the past few years have stretched current financial information backbones, resetting the technology challenges in a way that demands a new approach.
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From Intel …

Financial services firms know that forcing general-purpose CPUs to do it all is not the most efficient or productive means of accomplishing highly specialized tasks. Better to attach an optimized accelerator module to the system, one that is streamlined and loaded with algorithms for the task at hand.
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