Powered by LDA's NEO platform latest hardware and networking IP advances, NeoMux Ultimate 10G delivers a significant upgrade to our industry leading ultra-low latency muxing product.
FPGA-based simple switching devices (muxes) are used by the vast majority of trading firms as they provide much lower latency compared to regular switches. Prop trading firms also combine muxing with the use of a Layer 1 fabric to bring downstream traffic latency down to the bare minimum. A conventional switch must still be present in the network to facilitate required Layer 3 communication to the exchange, such as BGP protocol, static multicast subscriptions and so on.
Most market participants also need to obtain very accurate timestamps on all ingress and egress traffic, however, this adds even more devices, cabling and complexity into the setup.
LDA NeoMux Ultimate is an integrated solution that combines ultra-low latency mux and layer 1 fabric with certain features of LDA's NeoTap timestamping and tap aggregation system: extremely accurate timestamping (with optional White Rabbit and PPS synchronization), timestamped traffic rebroadcast via a dedicated 100G port at the back of the device, and a reasonable capture capability right on the device. NeoMux Ultimate can also run BGP and other Layer 3 protocols right on the device, effectively eliminating the need for a conventional Layer 3 switch.
This means that a single LDA NeoMux Ultimate 10G Solution can replace 3, or more, devices on your rack, while providing industry-leading mux and Layer 1 fabric latencies.
Specifications
- Industry-leading latencies
- Mux: 29 ns minimum, 33 ns average.
- Layer 1: 2 ns
- Configurations
- 6 partitions with 1 exchange and 7 clients each OR
- 3 partitions with 1 exchange and 15 clients each.
- More configurations may be added on request.
- OS integration
- BGP and other network protocols can run on the device, eliminating the need for a Layer 3 switch.
- Full access to exchange ports from the device: ping, telnet, tcpdump, etc.
- Capture up to 8 ports (exchange and client) simultaneously on the device.
- Safety
- Storm Control: automatically disable data flow from a client port when packet rate exceeds the maximum configured.
- Client equipment debug functionality: set of counters and utilities to reveal Ethernet protocol level errors coming from a client port.
- Statistics and Monitoring
- Real time port module and physical link status monitoring.
- Per-port packet counters: passed, dropped, CRC errors, maximum FIFO utilization.
- SNMP and specialized statistics applications available.
- Push telemetry available in Q2 2024
- Timestamping and Tap Aggregation
- Timestamping of all exchange ingress and egress interfaces.
- 100 ps timestamp accuracy.
- White Rabbit, PPS and GPS time synchronization.
- Dedicated 100G output port: all 48 front panel ports remain available for use.