Deutsche Börse Systems Implements Latency Monitoring Service
December 17, 2009
Deutsche Börse Systems, the information technology subsidiary of Deutsche Börse AG, has implemented a latency monitoring and reporting service from Corvil for Xetra and Eurex market participants, Corvil said Monday morning.
Corvil, a Dublin-based provider of latency management systems, said the service will provide a “full range of latency statistics based on microsecond distribution measurements for both order and market data” on Deutsche Börse’s new data interfaces, Enhanced Broadcast Solution and Enhanced Transaction Solution. The latency distribution measurements underpinning Deutsche Börse’s cash market Xetra and derivatives market Eurex service are based on Corvil’s Latency Management System – CorvilNet 5.2., Corvil explained.
The new latency monitoring and reporting service is accessible to all members via the Xetra member section on the Deutsche Börse web site and in the member section on the Eurex website.
“Deutsche Börse Systems is committed to providing our trading members with the highest levels of latency transparency to optimize their trading experience on our platforms,” said Gerhard Leßmann, member of the executive board at Deutsche Börse Systems AG. “By leveraging the unique latency measurement and analytics capability of the CorvilNet platform, we have successfully achieved an industry first in low latency monitoring and reporting for high frequency trading.”
The new service provides latency statistics for Enhanced Broadcast Solution market data messages for both streams of the dual-feed setup over the entire business day, providing historical information for up to five business days. The contents of the latency information provided include: minimum, average and maximum latency in microseconds, as well as 90 percent and 99.5 percent latency percentiles.
For Enhanced Transaction Solution trading sessions, both Xetra and Eurex use CorvilNet to monitor round-trip response times for all member trading sessions to the trading gateways.
Statistic data is published on all relevant sessions (showing an ample amount of transactions) providing the average, median, 99th percentile, 99.9th percentile, fastest, slowest and overall normalized ranking, according to Corvil. The “overall ranking field” provides the relative latency ranking for the given trading session amongst peer trading sessions in the market.
“This is the first time we have seen a market center offer normalized latency ranking information for a high frequency market. Relative latency information is what is important for traders. It does not matter how fast someone is trading, it only matters how fast they are trading relative to all others in the market at the same time,” said Donal Byrne, CEO of Corvil. “This project represents a significant advancement in the state of the art for latency monitoring and transparency and I am delighted to see Deutsche Börse Systems leveraging CorvilNet to achieve this innovative breakthrough.”
