Network Performance Management Solution for Investment Services Organizations
Summary of information on this page:
NetScout’s Sniffer and NetScout Solutions meet the many formidable challenges faced by IT Network managers in the investment services industry today. With a single comprehensive system you can:
- Assure timely delivery of market data and monitor trading/exchange applications across distributed networks
- Troubleshoot network problems in real time
- Receive early warning of problems with real-time microburst, latency and out-of-sequence alarms
Investment Services Industry Today
In the highly competitive investment services industry, differentiation can often be measured in milliseconds. The firms that can process and analyze the ever-growing volumes of market and trade data the fastest can execute trades more swiftly and pass this advantage on to their customers. In fact, according to Information Week, “a millisecond advantage in trading applications can be worth $100 million a year to a major brokerage firm.
Business and Network Challenges in Investment Services Companies
The ability to identify and monitor – in real time –critical market data and trade/exchange applications and the protocols associated with them, such as FIX, Multicast, TIBCO and others, is essential to the day-to-day operation of financial exchanges, trading houses, hedge funds, investment banks and other global financial institutions and market exchanges with trading desks:
- Troubleshoot network and application response time issues, latency, packet loss, and out-of-sequence problems with market data and trading/exchange applications that result in performance degradations
- Maintain the delivery of time-sensitive applications such as real-time stock price updates that depend on TIBCO used with IP Multicast to ensure reliability, FIX Protocol-based applications for electronic trading, etc.
- Use baseline and forecast reports with millisecond granularity to fine-tune traffic flows across the enterprise, understand the normal behavior patterns of various critical applications, and make informed decisions on where to invest resources
NetScout Solution Monitors Market Data and Trading/Exchange Applications
NetScout meets the needs of investment services companies by providing the real-time and historical information necessary to keep the network running at peak performance with the lowest possible latency. Using distributed monitoring devices, continous packet recording appliances and/or NetFlow Collectors which have been strategically placed throughout the organization's network to collect and deliver rich, actionable information on the utilization, conversations and packet details from market data and trading-specific application traffic, network professionals can proactively manage faults, monitor application responsiveness, plan network bandwidth changes, and rapidly troubleshoot network problems.
NetScout's Sniffer and NetScout Performance Management Solutions provides global market trading companies with:
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Real-time monitoring and historical reporting analysis (utilization, response time, hosts and conversations) of market data and trading/exchange applications, such as FIX, OPRA, MDP, PGM, etc.
- Ability to identify IP Multicast groups as unique business applications as well as view the interaction between publishers and groups
- Ability to view TIBCO statistics, including error traffic and retransmissions.
- Real-time microburst alarming
- Identification of inter-packet delay or latency on a particular application stream and alarming if the gap exceeds a pre-defined limit
- Robust error detection, such as monitoring out-of-sequence packets / retransmissions in real time, and the ability to generate an alarm when the gap exceeds a pre-defined value
- Response time analysis which distinguishes network flight times versus application processing times
- Integrated application-level monitoring and analysis with continuous packet capture for robust, post-event data mining
- KPI-to-flow-to-packet approach to problem diagnosis for streamlined network troubleshooting that lowers MTTR
- Capacity Planning views that are designed to highlight short-term significant events that would otherwise be diluted when averaged with long-term data
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| nGenius® Performance Manager provides the capability to join IP Multicast sessions and alarm on TIBCO retransmissions and other error types.
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