cPacket

Active network traffic inspection and response

Low latency networks for high speed distributed trading applications have become a competitive advantage for financial institutions with algorithmic trading platforms, because any delays can impact profits. Given that network latency and jitter can drown out the sophistication of high frequency trading algorithms, these performance metrics need to be monitored with the same diligence that traders monitor changing market prices, correlations, and trends. If network latency and jitter are not monitored adequately, random variability is concealed and the trading systems are exposed to latency arbitrage and hostile manipulations.

cPacket’s latency and jitter measurement relies on passive intelligent distributed probes, which are deployed transparently - like inline taps - providing deterministic accuracy with no impact on network performance. The probes perform real-time complete packet inspection of every bit in every packet and every flow; they can extract on-the-fly relevant events from high speed traffic according to both the packets’ header and payload information and attach a deterministically accurate time stamp, which is derived directly from the PHY chip interface. The probes include integrated analysis of micro-bursts and spikes. cPacket latency monitoring probes support accurate clock synchronization via an interface to a highly accurate pulse-per-second GPS feed. The probes also support synchronization over standard network protocols like PTP and NTP.

Delivering the right cPacket solution for you

Axial Systems is a highly accredited partner of the cPacket solutions and are able to work with our customers to ensure the challenges of monitoring and control in high speed converged networks and are met by enabling cost effective pervasive intelligence, visibility and response solution.