Re: high frequency trading

Did you look at Force 10 Networks? Their E series switches have some pretty
good specs from what I've seen.

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On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Joseph L. Brunner
<joe_at_affirmedsystems.com>wrote:
> 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
> #19366
>
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> Subject: OT: high frequency trading
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> 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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