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Velocimetrics Releases First Major TipOff Upgrade Since TSA Licensing Deal
In its first major release since licensing TS Associates’ TipOff latency measurement system a year ago, London-based infrastructure monitoring specialist Velocimetrics has unveiled a new range of high performance TipOff appliances, one of which offers more than six times the storage capacity of previous appliances. The new appliance range will also underpin future releases of…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Plato Gets Its Socrates
Kevin Covington’s appointment to the board of Delta Capita this week underscores a perhaps more wide-ranging development: the emergence of the Plato Partnership, which named Delta Capita as its strategic consultant earlier this year. As you’re doubtless aware, Plato Partnership is an industry-led consortium that aims – in its own words – to offer “new…
Redline Adds Bloomberg B-PIPE to InRush Ticker Plant
High-performance data platform provider Redline Trading Solutions has added Bloomberg’s consolidated B-PIPE market data feed to the list of feeds available via its InRush accelerated ticker plant. Redline says the addition of B-PIPE was driven by requests from customers and by its strategy to expand globally. As a result of becoming a registered participant of…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The Long and Winding Road to (CSC’s) Heart
Hats off to Hugh Hughes and the team at Fixnetix, who’ve sold the company to CSC (Computer Sciences Corp.), in a deal that gives the small but influential provider of managed services for trading the muscle it has craved for so long. It’s been a long journey with many twists and turns. Fixnetix has been…
Metamako Combines Technologies to Deliver Development Platform for Network Edge Applications
Metamako has combined layer 1+ switching technology, field programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware and an Intel x86 server to deliver MetaApp, an adaptable application platform that supports network edge development and is expected to find favour in ultra-low latency environments such as high frequency trading. MetaApp adds functionality to the company’s MetaConnect and MetaMux deterministic,…
Corvil Webinar Discusses the Problems of Packet Loss and Some Potential Solutions
By Zoe Schiff Packet loss caused by network congestion or packet corruption can make trading strategies irrelevant and cause unwanted costs, but these problems can be resolved by using tools that provide visibility of packet loss and its effects. A recent webinar presented by James Wiley, director of technical product marketing at network data analytics…
Thomson Reuters Offers Three Open Source APIs and Plans More
Thomson Reuters has simplified access to its data feeds and services with a family of open source application programming interfaces (APIs) that are designed to help developers create innovative applications quickly and more easily than was previously possible. The Elektron API family is a response to customer interest in open source APIs that can be…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Approaching the Low-Latency Endgame?
We’ve been tracking the developments in the high frequency trading technology space since the launch of Low-Latency.com in 2006 or thereabouts. Now retired and living near Heathrow – or rather, reincarnated as Intelligent Trading Technology – she watches with interest as the superfast aspect of our marketplace finally approaches the endgame, where physics finally says…
MetaMako Launches MetaApp Latency-Reduction Device
By Zoe Schiff Low latency trading specialist Metamako has launched MetaApp, a latency-reduction device aimed at the trading and exchange communities and the telcos that provide them with connectivity. MetaApp seeks to address firms’ growing requirement for flexibility and determinism in their efforts to establish and support low-latency infrastructures in support of fast market access….
NanoSpeed Cuts Trading Latency with FPGA Based Nano-Gateway
NanoSpeed has halved the latency of its first FPGA based trading gateway with the addition of Nano-Gateway, an FPGA including interfaces for up to 32,000 trading algos, market data feed handlers, pre-trade risk checks, limits that can be changed on the fly, and the ability to deliver client orders to an exchange in less than…