Re: high frequency trading

Agree 100%.

specially BN G8100 ...

Few Tier-1 Exchanges will go live in next couple of months with ...
Mellanox for Infiniband
BladeNetworks for 10G
C6500 for 1G

seems to be cisco is still far behind in HPC/DC networking ...

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:32 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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