cartaretA common configuration for FSMLabs TimeKeeper customers is to cross-couple time sources in New Jersey and New York City or London and Slough or Chicago and Aurora or Singapore and Sidney- any two trading locations that are connected with high quality network. Sometimes the network connection does not even have to be that great. TimeKeeper will cross-check time sources, complain when things look wrong, and failover when needed.  Multiple time sources also produces a timestamp provenance. Trading applications will have a record showing that the  timestamps they produce were in agreement with two or more independent sources. A number of firms scale this basic design to multiple sites: increasing the depth of fault-tolerance and the strength of the provenance. Cross-coupling time feeds also  provides early warning on a number of network problems. Several customers saw TimeKeeper warnings about secondary sync  and found on investigation that their network providers were changing equipment or rerouting without notice.

 

 

 

From Jersey to Wall Street – or the equivalent