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APCON (News - Alert), a provider of network monitoring and security support solutions, has announced that its INTELLAFLEX 36-port, 1G/10G time stamping aggregator blade is now compatible with network analysis and data flow latency monitoring solutions from TS-Associates.

This interoperability aims to provide businesses carrying out data-critical tasks with high precision latency measurement solutions with a variety of deployment options.

Richard Rauch, founder and chief executive officer at APCON, said, “We have focused on achieving the highest level of precision in time stamping with this new high capacity blade, but that’s only one component needed for a business to successfully measure network latency. Our interoperability with TS-Associates gives businesses the ability to exceed performance requirements in network latency monitoring and transactional timing measurement.”

According to APCON, the 36-port 1G/10G INTELLAFLEX time stamping and packet slicing aggregator blade can deliver sensitive timing accuracy, total packet aggregation, data rate conversion, port tagging, load-balancing and packet-filtering capabilities on all its 36 ports, which are also software configurable. The company explained that the solution is ideally suited for financial industry service providers who are looking for means to seamlessly measure network latency in electronic trading, where milliseconds can be worth millions of dollars.

Now, the INTELLAFLEX is interoperable with the complete TS-Associates Precision Instrumentation product range, including Correlix and TipOff.

TS-Associates explained that its TipOff product measures data flow latency over all standards-based messaging stacks, vendor proprietary middleware stacks and execution venue protocols. It also supports 1/10/40 GE interfaces. Meanwhile, Correlix is designed to analyze latency sensitive and complex trade flows.

“The compatibility of our Precision Instrumentation products with APCON’s new time stamping blade delivers unparalleled latency measurement solutions to end-users,” said Steve Rodgers, chief technology officer at TS-Associates. “During interoperability testing, we confirmed the precision of the timestamps coming from the APCON blade – something that is of vital importance to our customers.”