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Network Diagrams

Synchronization implementation for a variety of network scenarios.
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(1) Time synchronization within a local trading center, or between trading centers

(2) Time synchronization within a GPS-denied trading center

(3) Optimizing Time Transfer to a Server Rack

(4) Improving NTP time synchronization within a local trading center

Documentation

	Microsecond Synchronization Solved (Brochure) Synchronization for High Frequency Trading Networks (White Paper) Time Synchronization's Role in Real-Time Trading (Application Note) Time Servers Help Verus Card Services Comply with PCI (Success Story) Financial Services Regulations for Timekeeping (web page)

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	Merrill Lynch Deutsche Bank JP Morgan Chase Ebocom, LLC Network 1 Financial Federal Farm Credit Banks Citibank National Australia Bank Federal Reserve Bank PFF Bank & Trust Laredo National Bank Federal Home Loan Bank Citicorp Finance LTD Chicago Stock Exchange E*Trade Group Brokerage America Two Sigma Investments Bay Federal Credit Union AIM Investments Banco General Moody's Investment Services Track Data Corporation

Links

	How to keep time with your servers Synchronized time is needed to authenticate credit card transactions

While precise time synchronization is necessary to satisfy market trading requirements and compliance-based record-keeping, new applications have raised the bar significantly.

Requirements for synchronization are moving from thousandths of a second to millionths of a second. Precise time stamping of market data. Managing latencies. Implementing precision trading algorithms. The infrastructure and networks have to be able to handle real-time transactions and remain compliant with the regulations that they are governed by.

Spectracom supports the industry's trend toward microsecond timing and synchronization accuracies between clocks that may be distributed among data centers. Similar requirements extend to several other industries as well.

Learn more about Spectracom's Time Fidelity synchronization solution for high-frequency trading

Products for Financial Services


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