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14 June 2011

Endace Launches Range of Network Traffic Replay Systems Targeted At Trading Community

New Capture Replay Systems Let Traders Use Captured Data to Test Critical Systems and Tune Algorithms

Auckland, New Zealand — June 14, 2011─ Endace (LSE: EDA), world leaders in network monitoring and recording, today announced the launch of a new range of 100% accurate network traffic capture and replay systems that are specifically designed to help traders stress test critical systems, diagnose technical faults, test new trading algorithms and sample new markets.

Since high-frequency trading took off 10 years ago the trading community has sought out new ways to gain advantage over their competitors. For buy-side, sell-side and trading venues, maximizing system performance and minimizing latency have become key tenants of technology strategies. Up till now, a key challenge has been how to test and measure the effectiveness of these strategies using real traffic.

Endace Capture Replay systems enable organizations to record up to 16TB of market and trading data with 100% accuracy. Once recorded, traders can replay the traffic at any speed up to 10Gb/s with exactly the same time correlation and precisely the same packet sequence.

By replaying traffic at different rates organizations can:

Identify the point that feed handlers and trading systems saturate and fail
Diagnose technical faults by replaying trades
Benchmark the performance of new algorithms against existing algorithms using real data
Sample new markets by recording market data feeds from new venues and replaying them through trading systems under controlled conditions.

“The benefits of being able to capture traffic with absolute accuracy and replay it with sub-micro second accuracy are extensive and will enable increased profitability in the trading community,” said Kevin Formby, vice president of Business Development at Endace. “Many of our customers are at the bleeding edge of high-frequency trading and they are constantly on the lookout for new tools that will provide an advantage. In the right hands, these capture replay systems have the potential to give both traders and venues significant competitive gains through controlled replay.”

Endace is launching two different version of its Capture Replay System. A SAS based system which supports write to disk speeds of 10Gb/s and 9.6TB of storage and a SATA based system that supports 16TB of storage and a write to disk speed of 7Gb/s. Both systems can be configured with a fibre channel HBA to enable larger trace files to be saved and recovered from network storage systems. For recording and playback capture replay systems support a pair of 10Gb/s DAG® monitoring ports.

Capture Replay Systems enable captured traffic to be:

Speeded up to a specified Gb/s rate
Slowed down to replay at a specified Gb/s rate
Scheduled to replay at a predefined time
Speeded up or slowed down during a live transmission

Endace will be demonstrating its new range of Capture Replay Systems at SIFMA in New York between the 14^th and 16^th June 2011 on booth #1101

About Endace

Endace provides open network monitoring and recording systems that form the basis for mission critical network security, traffic analysis and latency measurement solutions.

Endace Systems are purpose built to be deployed as a fabric, from the edge to the core of the network. Working in unison they provide a comprehensive monitoring fabric on which a range of open source, commercial or custom applications can be run simultaneously.

One hundred percent packet capture is now accepted as a non-negotiable input to systems that are being used to monitor, measure and analyze critical networks. Based on proprietary DAG technology, Endace’s systems have a global reputation for consistently capturing and analyzing 100-percent of network traffic on any network interface and at any speed from 10Mb/s to 100Gb/s.

Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Endace also has offices in the U.K. and the United States. Quoted on London's AIM, the stock code is LSE: EDA.