Ticker Plant

The Vela Ticker Plant is a software-based feed handling solution providing ultra-low latency, normalized access to over 250 venues, with global coverage and support for all major asset classes.  Delivered via a single, high-performance, flexible and unified API, all content is normalized to Vela's Market Data Model and optimized to deliver data to latency-sensitive trading applications.

Key features include:

• A unified API for all exchanges and distribution modes
• Advanced book building for price level and order-by-order books
• Composite order books to provide a comprehensive view of liquidity across multiple venues, e.g., EBBO, NBBO, Options BBO and custom composite configurations
• Line arbitration and support for native recovery mechanisms to ensure full feed resiliency
• Optimized for commodity hardware with custom kernel bypass implementation to maximize throughput of a single host without the need for specialist equipment
• Pcap recording and replay live data capture with nanosecond precision timestamps
• In-process library integration to run on the same trading application server
• Multicast or TCP distribution to connect client applications on separate machines
• Additional enterprise distribution options to power an organization’s complete market data needs including symbology look-up, conflation and delayed services
• Support for third-party vendor protocols, e.g., OpenMAMA, RFA, TREP
• Vendor-neutral entitlements control and reporting system for full policy and audit compliance and effective data and cost controls
• Available as a fully managed and hosted Ticker Plant Appliance
• APIs support C++, C# and Java and run on Windows and Linux

Vela’s Ticker Plant software enables access to critical, time-sensitive market data events through a single API designed to power critical trading applications while reducing total cost of ownership.