
Detecting Microbursts in High-Frequency Financial Trading Networks with cPacket
In this Networking Field Day article, Sulagna Saha discusses how electronic trading relies on a complex network to match buy and sell orders in real-time, requiring a lossless and ultra-low latency network to ensure every data packet reaches its destination without delay. cPacket addresses issues like microbursts and buffer overflows with a distributed architecture using programmable ASICs and FPGAs, enabling high-resolution packet capture and analysis for efficient and reliable trading operations.