Studie - Monitoring and Measurement for the Capital Markets (Analyst Insight)

Introduction

The number of vendors offering monitoring and measurement for low-latency environments in the capital markets is growing. Ovum looks at how this segment is evolving.

Scope

*Network monitoring technology

*Capital markets

Highlights

Ovum expects to see vendors that develop greater application expertise, by adding the ability to inspect specific protocols used by the different market data providers and the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol for orders, gain market share.

Reasons to Purchase

*Gain an insight into the competitive landscape in monitoring and measurement

*See how monitoring differs fromo generic enterprise to capital markets

Overview 1

CATALYST 1

SUMMARY 1

OVUM VIEW 2

INTRODUCTION 3

BUY SIDE, SELL SIDE AND EXCHANGES ALL NEED TO MONITOR LATENCY 3

THE FIX PROTOCOL IS A DE FACTO STANDARD FOR ORDER FLOWS 3

PROPRIETARY PROTOCOLS ABOUND IN MARKET DATA DELIVERY 4

analysis 5

NETWORK MONITORING TOOLS MUST ADDRESS MICROSECOND LATENCIES 5

MEASURING APPLICATION LATENCY MEANS LEARNING NEW PROTOCOLS 5

COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE 6

DEVELOPERS OF MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT SOFTWARE 7

ClearSight 7

Correlix 8

Corvil 9

ITRS 10

NetQoS 10

Network Instruments 11

NIKSUN 11

SeaNet Technologies 12

TS-Associates 13

PROVIDERS OF DATA CAPTURE HARDWARE 15

Endace 15

Napatech 16

RECOMMENDATIONS 17

Systems integrators (SIs) and consultancies 17

Data center operators 17

Service providers and trading venues 17

APPENDIX 19

DEFINITIONS 19

METHODOLOGY 23

FURTHER READING 23

ASK THE ANALYST 23

OVUM CONSULTING 24

DISCLAIMER 24

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