Lankford further ingratiated himself with clients by forming the STAC Council, where banks and traders would all get a say in how performance would be measured.
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.