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High-Performance Trading

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High-Performance Trading

With automated trading on the rise, financial services firms consider building low-latency and high-capacity infrastructures as critical to staying competitive in capital markets. Financial markets are under increasing pressure to improve operational efficiencies in order to stay competitive, control costs, and manage risk. These challenges, combined with an upsurge in electronic trading, have created the need for high-performance computing (HPC) environments in Financial Services.

Cisco offers a broad portfolio of HPC solutions that deliver high speeds, low latencies, open standards, and high system availability, enabling financial services customers to deploy the right infrastructure for their applications.

Key Challenges

The main challenges for Financial Services are:

• Low latency requirements
• High message rate and throughput requirements
• Predictability--avoiding such performance issues as jitter or spikes
• Building large computing grids in a cost-effective manner