Solace Message Routers and Cisco Ethernet Switches: Unified Infrastructure for Financial Services Middleware
Average Latency, Percentile Latency · 2010
What You Will Learn The goal of zero latency in financial services has caused the creation of entirely new industries, products, and career paths as well as volumes of data, analysis, and opinion. The degree to which speed in market-data delivery, trading algorithms, and transactions influences profit cannot be overemphasized and is the motivation behind many financial firms’ obsession with low latency. Every aspect of the data path, from messaging platform architecture to networking infrastructure, is being reviewed carefully in an attempt to gain competitive advantage. Many IT departments have approached the task by disaggregating the elements and testing them in isolation with simple synthetic tests that vary dramatically from the production requirements. However, it is important that missioncritical systems be tested in combination with as many real-world behaviors as possible to understand how factors like network load, variable message size, and spikes in volume affect latency and jitter. This document introduces the architecture and performance of an end-to-end middleware solution based on Solace message routers and Cisco ® networking equipment. This all-hardware solution enables customers to deploy and manage middleware environments that support the ultra-low latency and high message rates they need with much lower cost and complexity than systems that introduce software into the equation.