UDP over 10GbE and 24 hops via 3 x MetaConnect 16 devices

Specs: STAC-N1™ Benchmarks Beta 1

Stack under test:

  • UDP using the udp-tcp-sock-v1.0 binding for STAC-N1
  • CentOS 6.4
  • White-box server with an ASRock X79 Extreme6 motherboard
  • 1 x Intel Core i7-4930K
  • Mellanox Technologies MT27500 (ConnectX-3)
  • 10 Gbps Ethernet over 24 hops via 3 x MetaConnect 16 devices

Tested by: STAC

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The speed with which applications in the trading process (algorithmic "black boxes", matching engines, smart order routers, etc.) can get information from and to the network is a critical--sometimes decisive--contributor to their overall latency.