Why sacrifice latency when using RIAs and web streaming?

Posted by Larry Neumann on Aug 4, 2011

When capital markets firms began using rich internet applications (RIAs) built with Javascript, Flash/Flex, Silverlight and Objective C, it was accepted that applications designed for internet environments come with internet-like latencies. So capital markets firms that measure the performance of internal trading systems in the tens of microseconds got used to tens of milliseconds of latency when...
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Filed under Web Messaging
Tagged with Ethernet, HTML5, internet, latency, RIA, SDP, trading platforms, web streaming, websocket, wifi

FX trading architectures highlighted in new whitepaper from Catena

Posted by Larry Neumann on May 20, 2011

Technology architecture and design firm Catena Technologies just published a new white paper about appliance-based messaging applied to FX trading. The paper addresses the business and technology requirements of FX trading and provides benchmark data measuring performance in a variety of configurations and usage patterns. The test results cover latency behavior, scalability and the flexibility to...
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Filed under FX Trading
Tagged with Catena Technologies, FX Trading, latency, slow consumer, TS-Associates

Reason 3: Appliances deliver huge performance gains

Posted by Larry Neumann on Feb 15, 2011

This is part 3 in a 10 part series: 10 reasons for the growth in middleware appliances. The series summarizes what we’ve learned from our clients about what they value in appliances and why they selected Solace. So far I’ve talked about saving money and making life easier. The third leg in the stool of commonly recognized advantages of appliances is higher performance. There is no one...
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Filed under Appliances, Cross Industry, Financial Services, Hardware, Messaging
Tagged with Haile Gebrselassie, latency, Lebron James, low-latency, Michael Johnson, performance, top 10, Usain Bolt

How latency is like a sore knee

Posted by Larry Neumann on Mar 16, 2010

As a running form instructor, I’ve seen many examples of how poor form leads directly to a sore or injured body. Poor alignment causes fatigue. Landing on your heels causes knee pain. And don’t get me started on how most people run up hills. Little inefficiencies don’t stop you in your tracks, but at the end of the day they can keep you from achieving your peak...
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Filed under Capital Markets, Financial Services
Tagged with latency, running, TipOff, TS-Associates

10GigE enables world's fastest real world market data benchmarks

Posted by Larry Neumann on Apr 21, 2009

In Nov 2008, we released a set of benchmarks for ultra-low latency market data distribution. The tests, run on an all-hardware architecture consisting of 1 GigE technology from Solace, Arista and NetEffect, showed the fastest real-world messaging benchmark performance ever seen — until today. In conjunction with the launch of the new 10 GigE version of our Network Acceleration Blade, we...
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Filed under Financial Services, Network Tech
Tagged with 10 GigE, benchmark, latency

Transparency in performance testing = benchmarks that work for buyers

Posted by Larry Neumann on Nov 14, 2008

Earlier this week, Solace in partnership with Arista and NetEffect released the test results of a collaboration to drive latency out of high-volume, high-speed market data configurations. These test results generated a lot of attention in the financial services sector not just because of the excellent results but also for the way we reported the benchmark by providing the statistical...
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Filed under Capital Markets, Financial Services, Hardware, Information Providers, Messaging
Tagged with benchmark, latency, performance, STAC, testing, transparency