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TS-Associates, leaders in Precision Instrumentation of electronic trading systems, and developers of TipOff, Correlix and Application Tap, today announced the availability of the Application Tap integrated with Solarflare 10GbE network interface cards. The benefits of this innovation include a reduction in the cost of deploying Application Tap together with practical deployment options for small form factor and blade servers.

Emulex Corporation today announced a partnership with Gnodal, a provider of high-speed 10 and 40Gb Ethernet (40GbE) network switches, to deliver a solution that eliminates network congestion and provides industry-leading low latency, addressing the needs of high frequency trading (HFT) environments. The Emulex OneConnect 10GbE Network Xceleration (NX) OCe12000-D adapters, with FastStack DBL software, powered by Myricom, and a Gnodal GS4008 10GbE switch, enables lower latency by as much as 57 percent in User Datagram Protocol (UDP) testing, and by as much as 47 percent in Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) testing, when compared to a standard 10GbE switch.

Cisco Systems has teamed with a group of market data feed handler, latency management and integration vendors to produce an early set of real world latency statistics for its recently introduced Nexus 3548 switch.

Zeptonics, the Sydney-based financial technology firm recognised for creating two of the world’s fastest network devices[1], today announced that it will integrate 10GbE Network Interface Cards (NICs) from Mellanox Technologies into its new trade matching solution, ZeptoMatch, which promises to be the world’s fastest.

Redline Trading Solutions and Intel are highlighting performance benchmarks for the latest versions of Redline's ticker plant and execution gateway software, conducted using the proposed STAC-T1 test harness designed to measure "Tick to Trade" latency.

BittWare, the leader in Altera-based FPGA COTS boards, announced today the availability of the industry's first 6U VPX board powered by Altera's 28-nm Stratix V FPGAs. The S5-6U-VPX (S56X) is a rugged VITA 65 6U VPX card providing a configurable 48-port multi-gigabit transceiver interface supporting a variety of protocols, including Serial RapidIO, PCI Express, and 10GigE, and two VITA 57 FMC sites for enhancing the board's I/O and processing capabilities. When combined with the optional BittWare Anemone floating-point co-processors, the board packs a powerful punch for those applications requiring flexible FPGA processing in a rugged form factor.

Tibco Software has added to its messaging arsenal with the introduction of the Tibco FTL Message Switch and the Tibco Enterprise Message Service Appliance. Both new products were announced at the company's annual Tucon user conference, held this week in Las Vegas.

There's been a fair amount of media coverage resulting from the recent $5 million fine levied by the Securities and Exchange Commission on NYSE Euronext, caused in the most part by the exchange's failure to provide data to third parties as quickly as it did to its own data feeds. Now, not to make light of this breakdown in regulatory compliance and market fairness, but the problems did take place between 2008 and 2010, when they were fixed (so we are told). So I can't say I got too excited when the settlement happened. But it did get me thinking ... about a chat I had the other week with Gnodal's CEO Bob Fernander.

Cisco today announced the Cisco Nexus 3548 with Algorithm Boost (or Algo Boost) technology, a groundbreaking networking innovation which delivers up to 75 percent network-access performance improvement over competing full-featured Ethernet switches1. Designed for use in high-performance computing, high frequency trading, and big data environments, this new switch offers network-access performance as low as 190 nanoseconds (ns) – a huge performance improvement enabled by the unique Algo Boost technology developed by silicon engineers at Cisco.

Cisco Systems is today introducing its Nexus 3548 network switch, incorporating proprietary Algorithm Boost (aka Algo Boost) ASIC chip technology, which pushes port-to-port cut through latency down to 190 nanoseconds for typical financial trading applications. Moreover, latency of 50 nanoseconds is possible for straightforward one-to-many market data distribution.

Zeptonics, a Sydney-based financial technology firm, today announced the first sales of its ZeptoMux and ZeptoLink switching devices after a successful customer testing program.

ACCELIZE, the industry leader in ultra-low latency, FPGA-based network processing platforms today announced the XP7V690LP-40G low-profile FPGA computing card. The ACCELIZE XP7V690LP-40G features 40Gb Ethernet and PCI Express(R) 3.0 running at Gen3 speed.