The FIX Inter-Party Latency Working Group: An interview with Henry Young and Raymond Russell
Wednesday, 02 May 2012 18:40
Published by HFT Review
In this interview for the HFT Review, Mike O’Hara talks to Henry Young, CEO at TS-Associates plc and Raymond Russell, CTO at Corvil, Ltd. Henry and Raymond are two of the guiding lights behind the FIX Inter-Party Latency Working Group, the group formed under the auspices of FIX Protocol Limited to develop a new set of industry standards around latency measurement.
Nasdaq Enlists TS-Associates for Latency Monitoring
Monday, 12 December 2011 11:12
By Faye Kilburn, Waters Technology
Nasdaq OMX is making UK-based latency monitoring technology provider TS-Associates’ TipOff network monitoring appliance and Application Tap software instrumentation card available via the exchange’s Genium Inet and X-stream trading platforms, ...
Reduction is the ultimate goal when it comes to latency—and not just reducing latency itself. Traders want to reduce the number of issues surrounding latency as well, from measurement to analysis to co-location.
When our Japanese partner Terilogy invited us to be a guest speaker at the Trading Architecture seminar they were planning with TS-Associates (a precision instrumentation company for latency sensitive trading systems), Vess (SevOne’s CTO) and I decided to combine our upcoming business trip with our annual summer vacation.
Solarflare Creates New Paradigm With Precision Time Stamping
Thursday, 01 September 2011 09:49
Published by Solarflare
Solarflare, the leader in application-intelligent 10GbE networking hardware and software, today announced the industry's first high-performance, low-latency 10GbE server adapter with precision time stamping.
The low-latency arms race is now well underway, and firms across the industry frequency publish ever-decreasing latency levels; however, without a common benchmark for latency measurement, what do these numbers really mean, and to what degree are comparisons possible?
High-speed trading and latency go hand in hand. An industry cooperative, the FPL—responsible for the FIX Protocol—is now busy hammering out a standard, transparent way to measure latency, and the first release of a protocol is imminent.
FIX Inter-Party Latency Working Group Shortlisted for Prestigious Financial News Award
Tuesday, 02 August 2011 10:08
Published by Fix Protocol Limited
FIX Protocol Limited (FPL), the non-profit industry association that owns, develops and promotes the FIX Protocol family of standards, is honoured that the FIX Inter-Party Latency (FIXIPL) Working Group has been shortlisted in the ‘Editor’s Choice’ category for the highly celebrated ‘Financial News Excellence in Trading and Technology Awards’. The award winners will be decided by a panel of judges and announced at a ceremony on October 4th in London.
Reading through the latest from TS-Associates, it was interesting to learn that their Application Tap® function now supports Windows, from the makers of Xbox. It got me thinking about how widespread the adoption of Windows is for low-latency applications, so I asked the company's CEO Henry Young for his thoughts.
Via a report sponsored by data feed handler specialists SR Labs, the benchmarkers at STAC have just announced data for initial tests run on Intel's recently-introduced Everest 'Overclocked' chip. Compared to Intel's standard Westmere chip, one data point suggests a 22% reduction in mean latency.
ULLINK Proves 3.5 Microseconds Latency in Pre-Trade Risk Solution
Tuesday, 14 June 2011 16:07
Published by ULLINK
3.5 microseconds pre trade risk processing was measured LIVE by independent panelists and witnessed by 100 delegates in NY. UL IRIS+, ULLINK’s Ultra Low Latency Pre-Trade Risk solution performance measured on the wire by TSA latency monitoring product for a thirty minute steady fix order flow on Wednesday May 25th, 2011 at a ULLINK hosted panel discussion and live demonstration breakfast event.
The demonstration showed rejections based on exceeded limits and TSA latency monitoring on the basis of 8 pre-trade filter checks. As a low-footprint appliance, UL IRIS+ has been designed to fit in a variety of architecture models while allowing users to have a centralized view of their pre-trade risk controls across markets, protocols, clients and asset classes. Limits and filters can also be changed in real-time.
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FX trading architectures highlighted in new whitepaper from Catena
Monday, 23 May 2011 11:52
Published By Catena Technologies.
Technology architecture and design firm Catena Technologies just published a new white paper about appliance-based messaging applied to FX trading.
Henry Young, CEO at TS-Associates discusses 'Latency: Inside the Machine'.
Latency Measurement: Why and How
Thursday, 03 March 2011 13:36
By Henry Young, CEO, TS-Associates.
Henry Young, Co-chair of FIX IPL Working Group and CEO of TS-Associates, inspects the methods of latency measurement and relates new developments from the FIX Inter Party Latency Working Group.
By Henry Young, CEO, TS-Associates. Published by A-Team Group
Endace suggests the Commission should require any of these venues that offer co-location services to make GPS timing signals available to users of the venues at a "reasonable cost".
TS-Associates Discusses Precision Instrumentation of Low-Latency Systems with Pete Harris
Monday, 27 September 2010 12:46
Published by A-Team Group
TS-Associates' Henry Young discusses "precision instrumentation" of low-latency systems with A-Team's Pete Harris. "You can't manage what you can't measure," is the bottom line. Henry also provides an update on how the FIX Protocol Organization is involved in inter-party latency measurement, and why standards are needed in this area.
FIX Group to Promote FAST Protocol for Latency Communications
Tuesday, 12 January 2010 13:00
Published by Securities Industry News
A new committee of the FIX Protocol Group in London will likely advocate that latency monitoring vendors use the FIX Adapted for Streaming protocol as a language for communicating information on latency rates with each other.
In recent years, players in the automated trading industry have been investing heavily in accelerated trading infrastructure. This trend looks set to continue into 2010 and beyond. If you haven't been jumping on this trend yourself, get jumping!
TS-Associates plc has customers in financial centres all over the world, from Singapore to the United States. Its key product - responsible for 75 per cent of the company's revenue - is TipOff®. This is a middleware analysis appliance that gives customers a non-invasive solution covering a wide range of middleware protocols. The technology runs on a hardware-accelerated platform, consisting of a server and peripheral component interconnect (PCI) cards that provide additional capabilities while maintaining a small form factor. In this way, customers benefit from broad functionality without having to set aside a large area of their datacentre for the appliance.
Comtech AHA Corporation (AHA) and TS-A today announced that TS-A has integrated AHA's AHA363-PCIe GZIP compression board into their TipOff® G4 appliance
Tuesday, 03 February 2009 11:02
Published by Comtech AHA Corporation (AHA)
Comtech AHA Corporation (AHA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL), and TS-Associates plc, a leading developer of middleware analysis solutions, today announced that TS-Associates has integrated Comtech AHA Corporation’s AHA363-PCIe GZIP compression board into their TipOff® G4 appliance.
TS-Associates, Voltaire and Accolade announce TipOff® - Wombat Data Fabric Edition for Performance Monitoring of InfiniBand Fabrics
Monday, 22 September 2008 12:25
Published in BusinessWeek
Trading Systems Associates plc, Voltaire, Ltd. and Accolade Technology Inc today announce TipOff® - Wombat Data Fabric Edition, a new variant of TS-Associates' middleware monitoring product...
New Latency Measurement Tools From Reuters, TS-Associates
Wednesday, 05 March 2008 13:59
Published on FinNotes.wordpress.com
A pair of products designed to measure and monitor latency – a growing area of technology development amid ever-growing market data volumes–made their debut this week.
New Latency Measurement Tools From Reuters, TS-Associates
Wednesday, 05 March 2008 11:59
Published on SecuritiesIndustry.com
A pair of products designed to measure and monitor latency, a growing area of technology development amid ever-growing market data volumes, made their debut this week.
Trading Systems Associates is pleased to announce that it has won a further two global deals with top tier financial institutions for its innovative middleware analysis product - TipOff.
TS-Associates Chalks Up Two Global TipOff Deployments
Wednesday, 16 January 2008 13:40
Published on Low-Latency.com
Trading Systems Associates (TS-Associates) is trumpeting two global deals with "top tier" financial institutions for its middleware analysis product TipOff.
Trading Systems Associates (TS-Associates) is trumpeting two global deals with "top tier" financial institutions for its middleware analysis product TipOff®.
