IRVINE, CA — (Marketwire) — 08/02/11 — Arista Networks and Solarflare today announced that CBOE Holdings, Inc., home of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and other exchange subsidiaries, chose Solarflare and Arista to support next-generation technology for high frequency trading on its CBOEdirect platform.
The performance enhancements were implemented in the first quarter of 2011 for CBOE — the largest US options exchange and creator of listed options — and for all-electronic C2 Options Exchange, CBOE Futures Exchange and CBOE Stock Exchange.
CBOE technologists led the collaborative design effort with Arista and Solarflare to deliver significant performance enhancements to the exchanges- world-class trading platform, CBOEdirect. Arista and Solarflare-s trading solutions provide a new level of network intelligence by tightly coupling applications for CBOE-s network. This integration of application acceleration to the network delivers dramatic improvements in performance, bandwidth and response time to CBOE customers, offering a critical competitive edge in the rapidly evolving high frequency trading market.
“System performance and response time have always been central to CBOE-s technology focus. By implementing a combination of Solarflare-s and Arista-s low latency, high-performance networking products, CBOE continues to provide the lowest latency experience to our customers,” said Gerald O-Connell, CBOE Holdings executive vice president and chief information officer. “We-re extremely pleased with the benefits — including measurable lower latency — delivered with these new network enhancements.”
“Over the past three years, the Arista 7100 Series has become the gold standard in ultra-low latency trading for clients, market makers, and exchanges and Arista is proud to be the network partner for CBOE-s options exchange,” stated Jayshree Ullal, president and CEO at Arista Networks. “With the lowest latency switches available, application integration of active latency monitoring with LANZ and Solarflare, and self-healing EOS, Arista-s industry leadership is demonstrated in every part of real-world financial trading deployments.”
Arista-s networking portfolio provides the lowest latency possible with Ethernet switches today, while providing the necessary protocol and forwarding support to peer at the world-s major trading venues such as BGP, OSPF, MLAG, and PIM-SM. With Arista-s LANZ integration, congestion events are actively monitored in real-time and this data is integrated with trading platforms and network management solutions to improve the client trading experience.
“We-re honored to be working closely with two market leaders to deliver a solution for CBOE Holdings- exchanges,” said Russell Stern, CEO at Solarflare. “Our application-aware server I/O solutions are uniquely positioned to address CBOE-s requirements for capacity, scale-out performance and low latency. We look forward to a long-term relationship with CBOE and our partner Arista Networks to continue to deliver value to CBOE-s customers.”
Solarflare-s networking hardware and software products provide a flexible, direct model for accelerating applications while maintaining support for the network and operating system functions required by enterprises. These scalable server I/O solutions enable customers to match network parameters and resources, such as performance, bandwidth and response time, to specific business needs. The company-s products are built on standard protocols, including Ethernet, TCP/IP, UDP and PCIe, and are compatible with existing network infrastructure. This protocol conformance and application transparency enables customers to seamlessly adopt and deploy Solarflare-s solutions without re-writing any applications.
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Solarflare is the leading provider of intelligent, application-aware server I/O products. The company helps its customers improve performance, increase scalability and provide higher ROI for scale-out compute environments, such as high frequency trading, high performance computing, cloud, virtualization and big data. Solarflare-s products are used globally by many of the world-s largest companies, and are available from leading distributors, value-added resellers and system integrators, as well as from Dell and HP. Solarflare is headquartered in Irvine, California, and has an R&D site in Cambridge.
Arista Networks was founded to deliver for large data center and computing environments. Arista-s award-winning best-of-breed 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches redefine scalability, robustness and price-performance. At the core of Arista-s platform is a ground-breaking new software architecture. Arista Networks markets its products worldwide through distribution partners, systems integrators and resellers.
Arista CloudVision is a registered trademark and Arista EOS is a trademark of Arista Networks.
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