Financial Services

Delivering Ultra-Low Latency for High Frequency Trading

As more financial firms engage in high frequency trading, every microsecond can translate to millions of dollars of profits or losses. Data volumes are seeing dramatic growth, bringing existing trading systems to their limits. In a business where profits are directly measured by system speed, a low latency, high volume infrastructure is essential.

Voltaire offers the lowest latency networking solutions for high frequency trading with its unique software and switching platforms leveraging both InfiniBand and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Customers have their choice of transports, including RDMA, Multi-cast UDP and TCP/IP.

As a pioneer in the field of high frequency trading networking, Voltaire has deployed its solutions at large array of investment banks, hedge funds and exchanges. These solutions have been certified and deployed with the leading software providers in this space. Voltaire's solution boosts the performance of financial market data and messaging applications, including NYSE Technologies' WDF, 29West Latency Busters® Messaging (LBM) and customers' homegrown trading systems.

Voltaire's solutions for financial services repeatedly demonstrate lower application latency, higher application throughput, and higher scalability in benchmark testing. While Voltaire offers solutions for both InfiniBand and 10GbE, InfiniBand continues to deliver the lowest latencies – as much as 30% lower than Ethernet-based solutions.

Application End-to-End Latency Comparison

Voltaire's solution wins with 35% lower latency at any message size

29West Middleware Latency Comparison

Voltaire's solution outperforms by more than 2X at any message size

InfiniBand vs. 10GbE Comparison

InfiniBand consistently delivers lower latencies than 10GbE solutions

Key Benefits

• Ultra-low application latency of as low as 2.5 microseconds for InfiniBand and 3.5 microseconds for 10GbE
• Ultra-low switching latency of less than 100 nanoseconds for InfiniBand and less than 700 nanoseconds for 10GbE (port-to-port)
• Extremely high packet per second rate of up to 2.8 million PPS for InfiniBand and 2.5 million PPS for InfiniBand—sustaining growing market data rates
• Seamless Ethernet IP multicast connectivity using standard commodity servers
• No application code changes required and fully compatible with Linux socket API
• Direct L3 connectivity to the Exchange/WAN
• Low jitter minimizing maximum and average latencies
• Cost effective optimized products for co-location environments

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