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BATS Europe Adds Low-Latency Trading

Friday, March 12th, 2010
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BATS Europe, the fast-growing pan-European multilateral trading facility, has selected QuantHouse to supply real-time feeds of market data from other European trading venues.QuantHouse, a provider of low-latency trading solutions, helps BATS Europe use data from primary listing markets and other MTFs to support its trading operations and specific order types on its marketplace, as an input for market analytics, and to support its recently launched smart order routing service.
BATS Europe executes more than eight percent of the FTSE 100, five percent to six percent of the FTSE 250 and FTSE MIB, four to five percent of the CAC 40 and DAX, and five percent of the European market overall after launching only 16 months ago.
http://www.a-teamgroup.com/article/bats-europe-selects-quanthouse-low-latency-market-data-solutions-for-its-european-marketplace/

BATS Europe, the fast-growing pan-European multilateral trading facility, has selected QuantHouse to supply real-time feeds of market data from other European trading venues.

QuantHouse, a provider of low-latency trading solutions, helps BATS Europe use data from primary listing markets and other MTFs to support its trading operations and specific order types on its marketplace, as an input for market analytics, and to support its recently launched smart order routing service.

BATS Europe executes more than eight percent of the FTSE 100, five percent to six percent of the FTSE 250 and FTSE MIB, four to five percent of the CAC 40 and DAX, and five percent of the European market overall after launching only 16 months ago.

http://www.a-teamgroup.com/article/bats-europe-selects-quanthouse-low-latency-market-data-solutions-for-its-european-marketplace/


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Tokyo Stock Exchange Lights Low-Latency “Arrownet”

Monday, March 8th, 2010
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The Tokyo Stock Exchange has implemented a low-latency network supporting an MPLS network called “arrownet” that is designed for fast, high-volume data communications with latency of less than two milliseconds, with a measured value less than one millisecond from the access point to the data center.
The network is configured as a ring using highly Juniper Networks “M Series” routers placed with dual redundancy, making arrownet infrastructure highly fault tolerant. The configuration also allows for fail-over from TSE’s primary data center to its backup center without intervention on the part of the securities firms.
The TSE is putting in place a number of IT innovations, including arrownet, to pave its way to becoming a “Universal Exchange” for securities, options and derivatives trading.
“The ultra low-latency response investors have been experiencing since the release of arrowhead proves that arrownet is delivering on our vision to supply a world-class trading infrastructure that is able to compete on equal terms with, or even surpass, any other financial market in the world,” says Yoshinori Suzuki, managing director and CIO of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
TSE offers securities firms the opportunity to co-locate their systems within the Exchange’s data center, minimizing inter-system latency, while connecting them to their offices and their data centers via arrownet’s dual access points. Furthermore, the flexibility and scalability of arrownet’s architecture enables TSE to interconnect with overseas financial institutions and exchanges.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange has implemented a low-latency network supporting an MPLS network called “arrownet” that is designed for fast, high-volume data communications with latency of less than two milliseconds, with a measured value less than one millisecond from the access point to the data center.

The network is configured as a ring using highly Juniper Networks “M Series” routers placed with dual redundancy, making arrownet infrastructure highly fault tolerant. The configuration also allows for fail-over from TSE’s primary data center to its backup center without intervention on the part of the securities firms.

The TSE is putting in place a number of IT innovations, including arrownet, to pave its way to becoming a “Universal Exchange” for securities, options and derivatives trading.

“The ultra low-latency response investors have been experiencing since the release of arrowhead proves that arrownet is delivering on our vision to supply a world-class trading infrastructure that is able to compete on equal terms with, or even surpass, any other financial market in the world,” says Yoshinori Suzuki, managing director and CIO of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

TSE offers securities firms the opportunity to co-locate their systems within the Exchange’s data center, minimizing inter-system latency, while connecting them to their offices and their data centers via arrownet’s dual access points. Furthermore, the flexibility and scalability of arrownet’s architecture enables TSE to interconnect with overseas financial institutions and exchanges.

by  Gary Kim


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$100 Million Value of Shaving Milliseconds

Monday, February 22nd, 2010
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There are lots of different ways to deal with latency and bandwidth contraints, but some of them you might not appreciate.
In 1994, a typical web page was about 50 kilobytes in size and dial-up modems could transfer no more than three kilobytes a second. Under such conditions, Web sites were built to use few pictures, and to start loading in three or four seconds,with full rendering in 20 seconds.
These days, handshaking and other issues account for most of the experienced end user latency.
Round-trip latency for “handshaking” typically runs 700 milliseconds these days. In part, that is because of domain name server translations, even when servers are uncongested.
On the internet, the average latency for corporate websites in America is currently around 350 milliseconds, according to the Network Weather Report operated by the University of California, Los Angeles.
Google’s latency is 150 ms, Facebook’s 285 ms and YouTube’s 515 ms. Such latencies will have to come down considerably if the next generation of internet applications, such as telepresence, high-definition video streaming and remote surgery, are to fulfil their promise.
When shaving a millisecond off the time needed to execute automated trades can increase revenue by $100 million, there is plenty of incentive to build private optical networks with latencies approaching zero.
http://www.economist.com/science-technology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15523761

There are lots of different ways to deal with latency and bandwidth contraints, but some of them you might not appreciate.

In 1994, a typical web page was about 50 kilobytes in size and dial-up modems could transfer no more than three kilobytes a second. Under such conditions, Web sites were built to use few pictures, and to start loading in three or four seconds,with full rendering in 20 seconds.

These days, handshaking and other issues account for most of the experienced end user latency.

Round-trip latency for “handshaking” typically runs 700 milliseconds these days. In part, that is because of domain name server translations, even when servers are uncongested.

On the internet, the average latency for corporate websites in America is currently around 350 milliseconds, according to the Network Weather Report operated by the University of California, Los Angeles.

Google’s latency is 150 ms, Facebook’s 285 ms and YouTube’s 515 ms. Such latencies will have to come down considerably if the next generation of internet applications, such as telepresence, high-definition video streaming and remote surgery, are to fulfil their promise.

When shaving a millisecond off the time needed to execute automated trades can increase revenue by $100 million, there is plenty of incentive to build private optical networks with latencies approaching zero.

http://www.economist.com/science-technology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15523761


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