All Latency Not Created Equal

In a recent report published on network latency by Paris-headquartered consultancy Net2s, the authors found that not all latency requirements of trading desks are created equal and that network architects should take that into account. Not surprisingly, the most liquid and transparent markets, such as equities and futures, demand the lowest latency, while fixed-income trading could tolerate relatively higher message latency rates than other asset classes. "Outside of [the equities markets] ultra