Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol-based Applications
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NetScout Solution for Monitoring Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol-based Applications
The NetScout Performance Management Solution is a vital tool for identifying and analyzing performance issues of FIX applications in financial services networks. It provides the flexibility to:
- Identify FIX Protocol-based applications alongside other financial services applications
- Monitor and justify capacity growth by quantifying and qualifying your FIX Protocol traffic
- Quickly isolate application degradations that may affect end users in financial services organizations
The Challenges of Monitoring FIX Protocol
It is a significant challenge to monitor or report on FIX protocol applications due to the complexity of the protocol interface and its ability to hide easily among other port 80 traffic. As a result, the IT organization devotes a great deal of time to ascertain the actual location of a problem, rather than focusing on solving the problem itself. Financial services firms require visibility into critical FIX protocol applications in order to reduce performance degradations, which can directly affect profitability and customer services.
Providing Visibility into FIX Protocol-based Application Activity
The NetScout Solution provides a unique combination of capabilities that cost-effectively optimize the performance of enterprise, service provider and government agency networks. The NetScout Solution identifies well-known, custom, complex (i.e., SAP or Citrix), and web-based applications, including FIX Protocol applications.
The NetScout Solution evaluates FIX protocol application utilization by recognizing and understanding existing network patterns and identifying FIX protocol traffic flows and other financial services business applications running over the network. This helps better balance the delivery and bandwidth requirements of FIX protocol applications, paying particular attention to the demands of top hosts, conversations and distributed offices for efficient capacity planning purposes. Additionally, the nGenius System analyzes FIX Order Single messages for response time performance and unsuccessful transactions to quickly address performance degradations before they impact users and critical services.
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| nGenius Newspaper Report for Response Time over Time and Response Time Distribution over Time. The NetScout Solution identifies FIX Order Single conversations and traffic flows separately from FIX Other messages as illustrated in this response time report analyzing performance levels in this financial services network. |
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