RE: NYSE

["Temkin, David" <temkin () sig com>]

And let's not forget that if you use that 3rd party provider, especially
to connect to SIAC, you pay a premium to have someone to blame other
than the actual data provider.  

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On 
> Behalf Of Michael.Dillon () radianz com
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 5:36 AM
> To: nanog
> Subject: Re: NYSE
>
>
> > I would prefer not to use a third party provider because of the IP 
> > backbone. My experience has been witht eh third party providers is 
> > that there is not enough responsiveness (packet loss issues) to 
> > burstable traffic at market open and close.
> > Unfortunately when the third party networks were designed 
> there was no 
> > forethought into the need for market data traffic or multicast.
>
> Hmmm... well I happen to work in Engineering at Radianz.
>
> I can assure that our network was designed for multicast so 
> that there are two resilient low latency paths for multicast 
> traffic throughout our network in spite of the tendency of IP 
> to have a single best path. And our basic design rules for 
> network capacity worldwide are to allow for the bursts that 
> happen at U.S. Market Open.
>
> The advice to go to a 3rd party provider who specializes in 
> the financial services industry is a good one because we and 
> our competitors tend to understand the special needs of 
> companies in that industry. If you want to discuss this 
> further with one of our technical sales support people, then 
> send me an email and I'll put you in touch.
>
> --Michael Dillon


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