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NASDAQ Low-Latency Presentation

Financial & Trading

IT departments in financial capital markets are facing huge growth in the volume of market data, while they are also under pressure to improve trade execution times. In these environments, one extra millisecond of trade execution latency can mean as much as $100 million in lost trades per year. As these data centers move to multi-core, multi-processor servers and high-speed storage systems, IT managers should make sure that the connections among servers and between servers and storage are not creating a bottleneck that impedes optimum trade execution performance.

To ensure maximum usage of expensive server and storage investments, financial services data centers must deploy I/O and networking solutions that scale to support any level of performance, With the highest available bandwidth and the lowest latency, Mellanox® adapters, switches and gateways leverage the most advanced available technologies and enable the highest server and storage networking efficiency and performance for data centers.

The Mellanox Solution

Mellanox adapters, switches and gateways implement the world’s fastest and most robust network protocol. By enabling remote direct memory access (RDMA) between servers, Mellanox solutions speed transaction processing by offloading most portions of a transaction from the server CPU. In addition, Mellanox provides and supports the lossless InfiniBand transmission protocol, ensuring that no packets are dropped, avoiding retransmissions of data, and positioning InfiniBand to become the unified fabric of choice in data centers.

Mellanox enabled solutions integrate with financial market data applications from providers like Wombat and Reuters to significantly enhance the speed and predictability of market data delivery. These solutions can eliminate almost two-thirds of mean latency while nearly doubling throughput (updates/second).

Key Mellanox Advantages

• Throughput: The world’s fastest interconnect, supporting up to 40Gb/s per port
• Latency: transaction latency as low as 1 microsecond
• CPU utilization: RDMA capabilities result in full CPU offload
• Reliability: Lossless packet transmission
• QoS: Advanced features that guarantee Service Level Agreements (SLA) successful execution

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