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Cisco announced the Cisco Nexus® 3548 with Algorithm Boost (or Algo Boost) technology, a groundbreaking networking innovation which delivers up to 60 percent network-access performance improvement over competing full-featured 10 Gigabit (GB) Ethernet switches. Designed for use in high performance computing, high performance trading, and big data environments, this new switch offers network-access performance as low as 190 nanoseconds (ns) – a huge performance improvement enabled by the unique Algo Boost technology developed by silicon engineers at Cisco.
With numerous patents pending, the Cisco Nexus 3548 switch extends Cisco’s leadership in networking by pairing performance and ultra-low-latency with innovations in visibility, automation, monitoring and precise time synchronization.
Cisco Algorithm Boost delivers ultra-low-latency
Network performance is of paramount importance in high performance trading markets where obtaining and acting on real-time equities, options and other financial market information nanoseconds faster than competitors may be worth millions of dollars. The Nexus® 3548 can give traders a competitive advantage. Globally interconnected financial markets have elevated the demands on trading networks, making visibility and control equally critical to performance. Proactive management of market volatility, granular real-time monitoring, and precision timing accuracy of trade events give trading participants greater control and visibility at peak opportunity times across the globe. By providing these capabilities, the Cisco Nexus 3548 with Algo Boost enhances the Cisco High Performance Trading Fabric architecture that helps enable greater business agility and intelligence for customers without imposing performance or latency penalties.
Key Highlights:
Cisco ultra-low-latency switch with Cisco Algo Boost technology, is the fastest full-featured Ethernet switch in the industry
The Nexus 3548 one-rack-unit (1RU) 10 GB Ethernet switch running in “warp mode” offers latencies as low as 190 ns in those environments with small to medium Layer 2 and Layer 3 scaling requirements.
The ultra-low-latency switch also facilitates the efficient delivery of stock market data to financial trading servers in as little as 50 ns with the warp switch port analyzer (SPAN) feature.
The Nexus 3548 also includes Hitless Network Address Translation (NAT), a critical feature to allow algorithmic traders to easily connect to any trading venue they desire without any latency penalty.
Cisco Nexus 3548 switch latency speeds were verified using Spirent TestCenter across various workloads and using testing specifications developed jointly with Spirent Communications.
Superior analytical framework gives greater visibility for high-performance environments
The Nexus 3548 is the first switch to integrate the unique Cisco® Algo Boost technology in the ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) switching silicon that provides granular visibility into how the switch is performing while in production to help financial traders accelerate price discovery, increase order flow liquidity, and better manage regulatory requirements.
Precision Time Protocol helps trading firms keep their entire infrastructure highly synchronized, allowing them to correlate network events and better achieve regulatory compliance and digital forensics.
Active Buffer Monitoring proactively monitors and alerts users to congestion points that could be occurring and may negatively impact application performance.
Intelligent Traffic Mirroring consists of filtering and nanosecond time-stamping of captured traffic, which can help traders gain greater visibility into why gapping, slippage and slow order situations occur, correlating these trends with analytics tools to help enable smarter trading decisions.
