In many ways the modern financial markets are as much about technology as they are about money. The ability to instantaneously and safely transfer billions of dollars and complete millions of user-initiated and automated trades every second has exponentially increased the demands placed on the infrastructure of top financial institutions. The systems of today are bursting at the seams.

Solace’s innovative hardware uniquely offers the high-performance, low latency requirements to drive these markets, specifically with solutions in the area described here.

• Algorithmic Trading: With enterprise-class message routers that perform the core functions of messaging at very high speed, Solace can help financial institutions dramatically increase the speed and efficiency of their trading environment.
• Market Data Distribution: Solace enables fast and efficient data fan-out to any number of applications or users using specialized hardware that eliminates the roadblocks and variables that can impact latency and predictability.
• Order Execution: Solace’s message routers set new standards for performance, reliability and manageability in persistent message delivery, offering 10 to 50 times more throughput and substantially lower, more predictable latency than current solutions.
• Single Dealer Platforms:Solace’s middleware appliance is the ideal messaging platform for SDPs, and is in fact the only product that satisfies all the messaging needs of an SDP.
• Exchanges and Alternative Trading Systems: Solace can handle feed distribution to large numbers of systems and subscribers, and serve as a buffer between real-time and near-real-time elements of an exchange’s system.