Many exchanges have a 40G offering, but as technology evolves, the exchanges are upgrading their 40G capability to extract greater bandwidth, significantly lowering latency over the previous 40G generation. This enhanced connectivity decreases latency to less than that available in many 10G offerings. For traders, this means that using the new 40G connection will provide an edge over current competitors who continue trading on 10G. Traders now face a choice:
- Implement an all-new full scale, native 40G trading platform, which could take months.
- Use a conventional switch to convert 40G to 10G, note this is not supported at Layer-1, and the conversion will come at a steep latency cost of about 350 ns.
- Get the best of both and use LDA Technologies' new Rate Converter solution; it converts packets received on a 40G link to 10G and sends them to existing servers in less than 50 ns.
Earlier this year, LDA began shipping its NEO reconfigurable networking platform running the new 40G Rate Converter solution. By transiting packets between 40G and 10G in 50 ns, you can quickly and easily migrate your existing 10G trading servers off your conventional switches and immediately reap the benefits ahead of your competition. Trading on 40G is now possible without ANY changes to your current 10G trading servers.
For the past decade, LDA has focused on reducing Latency, improving Determinism, and Accelerating trading for its customers while delivering value and protecting their customers' investment. The LDA Technologies NEO platform is far more than an advanced Layer-1 switch; it is a complete development and trading platform with a full-length double-slot Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) card at its heart and a server-grade motherboard. This architecture enables the platform to be both programmable and internally hardware upgradeable, much like a server. No other Layer-1 switch on the market has taken this unique approach to upgradability while providing investment protection.
The LDA NEO platform uniquely stands out among Layer-1 switches by providing:
- Replication latency of 1.8 ns across 48 x 10 GbE ports, the fastest Layer-1 fabric available
- Deterministic port latency equalized to less than 150 picoseconds across all ports
- Packet telemetry, management, and analysis
- High precision packet timestamping with an accuracy of 100 ps at 10 GbE and 40 ps at 25GbE
As a development and networking platform, the LDA NEO with its Layer-1 fabric, interchangeable FPGA boards, Intel Xeon Gold 2nd Generation processors, and up to 128 GB of DDR4 memory and four NVMe drives, is in a class all by itself. With the LDA NEO, you can easily connect your existing 10G trading servers to the new low latency 40 Gbps market feeds today.
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