Cisco Delivers First End-to-End High-Performance Trading Fabric
June 14 2011 - 8:00AM
Marketwired
Today, financial firms need to execute trades and transactions with
the highest performance while rapidly processing more and more
complex information. Delays to transactions of fractions of seconds
can generate or cost millions of dollars and the most successful
firms seek out the highest performing IT systems to gain or
maintain competitive advantage. To help them achieve this
advantage, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced the first
high-performance trading fabric completely optimized for the
financial markets industry.
The Cisco® high-performance trading fabric unifies data center
switching, storage and compute technologies into a single system
which helps enhance data center network performance at each step of
an automated trade. The high-performance trading fabric is based on
Cisco's holistic data center fabric approach that includes the
recently announced Cisco Nexus 3064 and Nexus 5500 data center
switches designed to sustain peaks of traffic without loss, while
also delivering industry leading ultra-low latency performance.
Cisco's architectural approach is designed to deliver
differentiated business value.
Cisco has commissioned exhaustive tests, going beyond typical
Request for Comments (RFC), to measure the impact of intense
traffic scenarios, such as microbursts, on network performance.
Performance testing by Miercom, a network consultancy specializing
in networking and communications-related product testing and
analysis, showed that Cisco's switches performed better than
products from Arista or BNT in terms of low-latency and low jitter,
two key factors which impact the performance of trading systems
overall. The report also highlights significant differences in
software features available with the Cisco solution, including
Layer 2, Layer 3, infrastructure and management features -- many
required to optimize a high-performance trading fabric. In fact,
the report highlights that many of these critical features are only
available with the Cisco solution. The test report can be
downloaded at www.miercom.com/cisco.
The Cisco High-Performance Trading Fabric provides:
- Proven low-latency and reliability supported by the most
rigorous, real-world testing in the industry
- The capability to handle extremely volatile periods of market
activity without loss -- for instance, at market open and close or
when mid-day opportunities generate intense surges of trading
activity
- A scalable and flexible architecture with predictable
low-latency performance (submicrosecond on all ports), that adjusts
to meet business requirements including no packet loss during
bursts of traffic
- Critical relationships with the best partners to deliver
real-world results in the low-latency market data delivery value
chain
- Security features unmatched within other systems and switches,
including ingresss VACL and forthcoming PVLAN
Supporting Quotes
Paul Jameson, Global Director for Financial
Services Industry, Cisco "This announcement underscores
Cisco's commitment to the switching market in the most challenging
industry in the world, financial markets," said Paul Jameson, Cisco
global director for the financial services industry. "In the
mid-'80s, Cisco put automated trading on the map, and with the
announcement of our no compromise, High-Performance Trading Fabric,
Cisco is taking automated trading to the next level. We demonstrate
industry leadership in every area critical to high-performance
trading and have the highest performance and reliability statistics
based on real-world testing."
Victor Kokaram, Head of Infrastructure at
Mantara "Leveraging the latest technology advancements is
among our core tenets. Selecting the Cisco Nexus 3064 Switch was an
obvious choice as our top-of-rack solution to take advantage of its
64-port 10Gbps density. Its ultra-low-latency switching with robust
layer-3 unicast and multicast routing features delivers the
performance required by our most latency-sensitive clients, while
maintaining upstream consistency with our Nexus 7000 core
switches.
"We are managing a significant growth in clients who are
selecting us to provide ULL solutions in all of the major US data
centers. As a result, we are looking for a provider that not only
meets our performance requirements, but also offers a rich layer of
functionality -- such as private VLAN security without any latency
penalty. Once again, Cisco has demonstrated their leadership."
Rob Smithers, CEO, Miercom "Cisco
continues to underscore their dedication to this highly competitive
space by developing not just each specific technology element
required for HFT, but with each component optimized and tested
against the real-world challenges financial markets face on a daily
basis. Their latest foray, with the Nexus 3064 switch is the
perfect example of these achievements. Excellently designed and
formatted to process against microbursts and jitter while
maintaining performance at 100 percent throughout, Cisco is
definitely proven superior in competitive testing."
Technology Partner Support
- Solace message routers
- 29West (now part of Informatica) Latency Busters Messaging
middleware
- Thomson Reuters Market Data System (RMDS)
- NYSE Technologies Data Fabric
- Corvil CorvilNet for latency monitoring and microburst
detection
- Network adapters from Intel, Solarflare, and Chelsio
SUPPORTING RESOURCES
- Read more on Cisco Algo Speed HFT Solution Overview
- Read more on High-Performance Automated Trading Network
Architecture
- View printable High-Performance Trading Architecture
Poster
- View videos on Cisco's new data center products and the Data
Center Business Advantage
- Read Cisco Financial Markets website
- Read Cisco Unified Fabric website
- Read Cisco Data Center website
- Read Cisco Financial Services blog
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