Voltaire has released a new low latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet-based messaging product in collaboration with NYSE Technologies. The company claims that the combination increases the performance of automated trading and market data applications achieving average latencies of 25 microseconds at rates of 1m 200 byte messages per second per core.
Conor Allen, head of R&D at NYSE Technologies, said: “By combining NYSE Technologies’ Data Fabric technology and Voltaire’s VMS message acceleration software for 10 Gigabit Ethernet, we’re delivering the highest performance messaging solution based on Ethernet for automated trading infrastructures.
In addition to ultra-low latency, the solution scales easily and has low power consumption to meet the price-performance and energy efficiency requirements of next generation trading infrastructures.”
Voltaire and NYSE Technologies have worked for the past three years to bring low latency messaging products based on InfiniBand to financial services customers.
According to Voltaire, the two companies recently introduced a product based on Voltaire’s 40Gbps InfiniBand switches and software that gives performance of less than 10 microsecond latency at rates of more than 1m messages per second. While the InfiniBand-based offering is suited for customers who need the lowest latency possible, the new product released now is based on 10 Gigabit Ethernet and suited for customers that prefer to standardise their data center networks on Ethernet.
The company said that the new offering is also compatible with Voltaire Vantage 8500 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches which are expected to be available later this year. The Vantage 8500 is a Layer 2 core 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch that reportedly gives less than 1 microsecond latency, low 10 watts per port power consumption at low per port costs.
