HFT CORE SYSTEMS

Ethernet frames and the real wire budget

Lesson 33 of 96Phase 04: Network datapaths
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Learning objectives

What you should understand

  1. Account for preamble, headers, FCS and inter-packet gap
  2. Calculate serialization time at line rate
  3. Relate frame size to packets-per-second pressure

Lab

Hands-on exercise

Compute and validate wire time for a market-data packet stream.

Deliverable

Evidence of completion

A wire-budget worksheet with assumptions and packet-rate limits.

Prerequisite
EP 32

Phase 04

Network datapaths

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