For some companies, like financial institutions that rely on stock ticker feeds, a slight difference in network latency could mean a difference of millions of dollars. Enterprises and government agencies also rely on ultra-low latency networks (ULLN) and devices to power their time-sensitive applications; and communications providers employ them to enable differentiated, premium services. To remain competitive, today’s network equipment providers (NEMs) labor to eliminate sub-micro-seconds of forwarding latency in their routers, switches, and optical equipment.

Ultra-low latency (ULL) has become one of the hottest trends in information technology and ULL testing has come to the forefront. Read more »

High-frequency trading corporations and other organizations that conduct time-sensitive transactions rely on ultra-low latency Top of Rack (ToR) switches in their data center cloud environments. The Dell’Oro Group says that ToR switches generated more than $500 million in revenues in 2010 with the sector growing 300% in Q2 alone. To take advantage of this growing market opportunity, leading infrastructure vendors are all “racing to zero” and trying to differentiate themselves by delivering the lowest possible latency performance. Read more »