These days trading floors may have disappeared, but the prize still goes to the swift and nimble in the market. And as electronic trading has taken hold, firms with the fastest network and performance across all of the links in the trading chain will be at the head of the queue, able to react speedily to changing market conditions. Once measured in seconds, latency is now calculated in microseconds, and as markets continue to be volatile, speed of thought and execution remain paramount for many firms., Vijay Kedia Flextrade Systems – Read More

Telecom networks and the LAN’s/WAN’s connected to them are extremely complex, so one should expect performance variances among different networks and implementations. The difference is largely based on the specifics of the network in question. However, an understanding of some of the drivers of latency can paint a useful picture to evaluate specific network performance.

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