Learn how cPacket's cBurst is helping financial customers achieve lower costs, complete visibility and 100% accuracy

1. cPacket’s cBurst: Gaining a competitive advantage with increased accuracy
for today’s financial trading networks

2. 1. Need full visibility and accurate analysis: increased costs and degraded network performance is driving
the need for more accurate monitoring tools that can deliver fast and reliable information
2. Microbursts often go undetected: For financial data centers, downtime is not an option. Microbursts are
costly, causing lengthy troubleshooting times and provide little to no insight into network behavior at the
millisecond timescale
3. Lack of monitoring points: Traditional networks have insufficient monitoring points to provide full coverage
in the network in order to effectively troubleshoot issues
4. Inability to resolve network issues in real-time: you can’t solve what you can’t see. Market trading data
feeds need millisecond resolution to proactively monitor the network. Most monitoring tools rely on low-
resolution packet analysis that fail to provide predictive indicators
Top challenges facing today’s networks

3. cBurst: Always On Millisecond Accuracy
More Monitoring Points
Challenges:
• Low resolution hides the severity of network problems.
• Longer troubleshooting times
• Too many blind spots in the network
• Most software tools fail to scale effectively causing performance issues
Solution:
• cPacket offers intelligent distributed monitoring architecture that’s simple, cost effective, and
accurate
• cBurst reduces mean time to resolution by generating real time alerts at the wire

4. Challenges:
• Market trading is event driven: Opening and closing bells, market news, and world events can increase the
susceptibility of spikes in traffic which can cause oversubscription
• Dropped traffic on a UDP stream. The result? Data is permanently lost which negatively affects customer trading
activity.
Solution:
• cBurst allows high-resolution monitoring of up to one thousand streaming feeds, allowing you to identify problems that
can impact the end user in real time.
• If there is a network problem, an alert is sent to cClear (visualization dashboard) in real time to notify network
operators of the issue(s), reducing mean time to resolution
cBurst: Always On Millisecond Accuracy
Identifying spikes and microbursts

5. Second-level Accuracy can identify few bursts
But it hides the severity of microbursts!
Bursts

6. Market Data Feeds
(Up to 1000)
Improved Analytics for better decision making
Microbursts
cBurst: Millisecond Accuracy identifies these severe
microbursts

7. Challenges:
• Financial firms spend millions of dollars improving their trading infrastructure to achieve the lowest latency possible
• The need for improved performance increases as financial firms expand geographically to strategically grow their
customer base in emerging markets (i.e. Asia, Latin America)
• Specialized tools are very costly and fall short of delivering network visibility and performance
Solution:
• cPacket’s distributed architecture brings monitoring closer to the wire
• Provides the ability to offload performance intensive operations without sacrificing data quality
• End result: lower costs, accurate data, efficient allocation of resources
cBurst: Always On Millisecond Accuracy
Reducing costs while improving performance

8. cBurst: Always On Millisecond Accuracy
Millisecond Resolution Analytics
Features:
• 1,000 flexible filters with individually configurable thresholds
and alerts for UDP multicast market feeds
• Hardware generated real-time alerts at the wire
• Distributed monitoring is a simpler and more cost effective architecture
Benefits:
• Detect unexplained packet drops from fully subscribed links
• More accurate capacity planning
• Ensures packet stream continuity across link speed transitions
(e.g. 40G to 10G through trunks, stacking or infrastructure)

9. Per millisecond
Per-second
10 X difference in traffic magnitude between millisecond and second
cBurst: High Resolution Analytics

10. cPacket Networks
Always on packet brokering and monitoring 1G
to 100G
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