Case Study: Activ Financial achieves ultra-low-latency market data delivery with Arista Networks

Activ Financial relies on Arista ultra low-latency Ethernet to accelerate market data delivery

ACTIV Financial Systems is a global provider of consolidated market data, middleware and real‑time services for market makers, hedge funds and brokers. Facing rapidly growing message volumes and the need to distribute high‑frequency, low‑latency feeds across feed handlers, content servers and message gateways, ACTIV needed a scalable, compatible switching platform that could support exchange peering, multicast feed distribution and ultra‑fast message delivery.

ACTIV deployed Arista’s cut‑through, ultra low‑latency Ethernet switches to handle exchange peering, multicast distribution and the message bus between application tiers. Arista’s Layer‑3 features and open OS eased integration and reduced cost, and the deployment enabled ACTIV’s API to deliver large volumes of consolidated market data with almost no measurable latency increase—improving performance while preserving operational compatibility and strengthening the vendor partnership.

Activ Financial

Steve McNeany

Chief Executive Officer, ACTIV Financial Systems