xCelor Slashes Switch Latency, Bolsters Troubleshooting Capabilities

The vendor has also begun building its own FPGA boards to support its switches and feed handlers.

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The new switch has 32 ports, compared to 48 ports on its predecessor, the XPM² switch, and six SSD drives for data capture and storage. It can replicate data between ports at 3 nanoseconds, and performs "muxing" (or "multiplexing")─sending order data back to an exchange without passing through a full-service switch that can add latency─in 80 nanoseconds.

"Now, we can do in 80 nanoseconds what XPM² did in 130ns," says xCelor chief technology officer Rob Walker. Part of the speed gain was achieved

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