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Korean-based broker Samsung Futures has rolled out Orc Software’s Liquidity Access solution to increase its bandwidth capabilities and provide customers with high throughput connectivity to Korean markets. According to the derivatives trading and connectivity solution provider, the deal was booked in the third quarter of this year.

Solace Systems, a supplier of high-speed, low-latency content networking hardware, has joined the Financial Information Forum (FIF), an organization formed to address technology implementation issues in the financial services industry.

NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions, the low latency trading technology division of NYSE Euronext, has rolled out a software based solution to handle 10 major US equities feeds on a single server with potential headroom of three-times the current market peak capacity. The key ingredients of this implementation are its, Wombat Data Fabric, its high performance middleware and its feed handler technology.

Two weeks ago, Stac released a Stac Report on order book consolidation using the Aleri Streaming Platform running on a single quad-socket server using Solaris 10 and the Intel Xeon 7350 (Tigerton) processor. This server handled 180,000 order book updates per second with a mean latency of approximately 1.5 milliseconds and 99th percentile latency of approximately 3 milliseconds. On September 15, 2008, Intel released the Xeon 7400 series of 6-core processors, codenamed "Dunnington." Intel therefore asked Stac to re-run the exact same Aleri configuration after upgrading the processors in the server.