Contact UsReal-Time Market Data: PlusFeed Technology
Interactive Data's PlusFeed technology is designed for both highly efficient data delivery and low latency. Our ticker plant produces latency consistently less than 10 milliseconds for American, European and Asian exchanges; NASDAQ, NYSE Euronext and London Stock Exchange data, among others. Our data compression consistently delivers over 5 million messages per second.
Our philosophy: Enhanced state-of-the-art hardware
- We are committed to using best-of-breed hardware vs. being tied to a particular manufacturer
- We maintain continuous research and development on enhancing latest-generation, industry-standard hardware
- We work closely with hardware manufacturers on pre-production hardware releases
- We target optimal combination of performance and price
- We make a refreshed hardware platform available approximately every 12 months
Our philosophy: Software designed for outstanding performance
We modify and customize software using our technology expertise and many years of experience to help get the optimal performance. Examples include:
- Replacement of standard library functions with more efficient proprietary software
- Lock optimization to help increase processing concurrency
- Optimized and custom memory allocation management
- Buffer copy elimination to help reduce latency and increase throughput
- Reduction of context switching to help reduce operating system overhead and improve latency