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Endace Launches Network Traffic Replay Systems for Traders

Capture Replay Systems allows traders to use captured data to test critical systems and tune algorithms.

Endace, a provider of network monitoring and recording technology, has launched of a new range of network traffic capture and replay systems that are designed to help traders stress test systems, diagnose technical faults, test new trading algorithms and sample new markets.

The new product, titled Endace Capture Replay Systems, allows organizations to record up to 16TB of market and trading data with 100 percent accuracy, claims Endace. Once recorded, traders can replay the traffic at any speed up to 10Gb/s with exactly the same time correlation and precisely the same packet sequence.

This capability allows financial firms to identify the point that feed handlers and trading systems saturate and fail, diagnose technical faults by replaying trades, benchmark the performance of new algorithms against existing algorithms using real data, sample new markets by recording market data feeds from new venues, and replaying them through trading systems under controlled conditions, according to Endace.

"The benefits of being able to capture traffic with absolute accuracy and replay it with sub-micro second accuracy are extensive and will enable increased profitability in the trading community," said Kevin Formby, vice president of business development at Endace, in a press release. "Many of our customers are at the bleeding edge of high-frequency trading and they are constantly on the lookout for new tools that will provide an advantage. In the right hands, these capture replay systems have the potential to give both traders and venues significant competitive gains through controlled replay."

Endace is launching two different versions of its Capture Replay System. A SAS-based system which supports write to disk speeds of 10Gb/s and 9.6TB of storage and a SATA-based system that supports 16TB of storage and a write to disk speed of 7Gb/s. Both systems can be configured with a fiber channel HBA to enable larger trace files to be saved and recovered from network storage systems. For recording and playback, capture replay systems support a pair of 10Gb/s DAG' monitoring ports.

Greg MacSweeney is editorial director of InformationWeek Financial Services, whose brands include Wall Street & Technology, Bank Systems & Technology, Advanced Trading, and Insurance & Technology. View Full Bio

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