RE: high frequency trading

Actually,

I spent quite a few months on this recently for some Algo Traders in Equinix CH1.

We dismissed all Cisco products summarily as having TOO HIGH fabric latency;

We went with Blade Networks with Arista as a close second. Both exhibited the LOWEST possible latency.
Blade won on better features, and more mature operating system.

-Joe
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Bonilla
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:23 PM
To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: OT: high frequency trading

Hi all, I am back again. Have a question regarding high frequency trading.
We are planning on collocating at an exchange for trading and are looking
for doing lowest latency possible. I wanted to see if anyone else is doing
this and if there are any recommendations. I am currently thinking about
4900M and nexus 5k (layer 2) but am interested in seeing what others have
done and whether there are any best practices from cisco to ensure that we
achive lowest latency. TIA.

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Received on Fri Feb 12 2010 - 03:02:10 ART