In STAC (The Securities Technology Analysis Center) benchmarking, Solarflare and IBM achieved a top tested speed of 2.3 million messages per second with a mean latency of 14 microseconds and a standard deviation of latency at 2 microseconds using standard Ethernet and UDP protocols.

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So our average latency, for orders coming in and out of our system, ranges between 250 and 350 microseconds.

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Yes, the industry moves in microseconds in the front office, but the back office takes a little longer and group efforts take longer still.

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It delivers up to 240, 000 4K read IOPS and up to 200, 000 4K write IOPS, with access latency of less than 50 microseconds.

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And so, if you advertise for example, you know, 400 or 500 microsecond response time, which microseconds are millionths of a second.

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