Hardware at the Speed of Physics
Minimising hardware latency is an arms race against physics itself. We colocate with the venues we trade, run custom-designed servers, and push every network standard to its limit.
Our network stack is built predominantly on Arista switching — chosen for its sub-microsecond port-to-port latency and deep programmability via EOS.
Lowest-latency network links interconnect every trading centre. We engineer each path to shave every possible nanosecond off round-trip times.
We design and deploy our own server hardware — from PCB layout to thermal tuning — so no commodity bottleneck sits between our code and the market.
Equipment is co-located inside the same facilities as the exchanges we trade on, and adjacent to the OTC desk infrastructure we interact with.
Where fibre is too slow we deploy microwave — including our Chicago hub — cutting propagation delays to the physical limit.
We adopt the newest network and PCIe standards as soon as silicon is available, constantly refreshing the hardware stack.