Beware Latency Monitoring on the Cheap
Interesting to read a couple of reports of late regarding a “breakthrough” in the world of network latency monitoring – apparently boffins at a couple of universities have come up with an inexpensive way to measure network delays at the tens of microsecond level – and they reckon that Wall Street is going to be...
Thomson Reuters Snaps Up Partner Vhayu
Today’s news that Thomson Reuters is acquiring complex event processing (CEP) turned tick data analytics specialist Vhayu Technologies should not come as a huge surprise. But it’s notable all the same, for the tactical and strategic fallout that will result. Thomson Reuters and Vhayu have had a partnership for four years, under which Reuters badges...
Q&A: RTI’s Sun on Latency, Throughput and Jitter in Volatile Markets
The financial markets haven’t seen anything like the last couple of months. But what does the shakeup mean for the world of low latency and the vendors servicing it? IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked with Realtime Innovations‘ Director of Financial Services Strategy and Product Management Henry Sun to find out where the action is now. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com: The last...
A Closer Look at Achieving Low Latency in Real-Market Environments
In the new era of microsecond latency, is the quickest path between two points a straight line? Traditionally, messaging implementations aim to move information between publishers and subscribers by the most direct means possible, which often becomes the argument against legacy centralised, middleware messaging and queuing systems. Proponents of direct-connect, peer-to-peer messaging systems contend that...
Messaging Platforms and Hardware Choices: General Purpose or Accelerated?
Hardware-only vs hybrid vs software-only approaches to handling high data volumes with ultra low latency – Is there a clear winning approach or is the solution dependent on the specific application? Everybody uses hardware for messaging. The real question is: general-purpose or special-purpose hardware? Even special-purpose hardware starts life as software (e.g. VHDL code) which...
Q&A: Endace’s Paul Doyle on IEEE1588 and More …
Before one can accurately measure latency across a network, it’s important to make sure that all the devices connected to that network are running to precisely the same time. Endace recently rolled out support for the IEEE1588 specification, designed to achieve that synchronisation. And alongside the technology, the company also launched its new positioning as...
Check Out the New Intel fasterFS Website
The timing could not be better for the relaunch of Intel’s financial services website – IntelfasterFS.com. Not only is it going live just in time for the Sifma show, where Intel will be holding both breakfast and evening events focused on low latency technologies, but it also has the latest Intelligence in Finance newsletter for...
Q&A: RTI on The Value of a Millisecond, and How Jitter Fits In
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) recently held a seminar ‘Straight Talk About Low-Latency, The Value of a Millisecond’ which highlighted the relationship between the technical minutiae of low latency systems and the business issues related to electronic trading. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with John Akbari, Director of Financial Market Business Development at RTI, to find out some more...
Q&A: Steve Gleave of Endace on Latency Monitoring
In the news yesterday as a result of its global partnership with Reuters, Endace’s technology – coupled with that of partner Trading Metrics – underpins the Reuters Latency Monitor. But just who is Endace, and what does their technology really do? IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to Endace vice president of marketing Steve Gleave to find out more...
A Night At The OPRA Maybe Ain’t So Bad
Please excuse the headline … I wanted to be cute and grab some attention. When it comes to market data rates, OPRA – the Options Price Reporting Authority – makes the headlines that low latency vendors (and industry analysts) love to cite – because the numbers are so frighteningly big. The reality, though, is a...