The Cisco High-Performance Trading (HPT) infrastructure is a scalable, low-latency architecture that helps firms to handle the exponentially increasing volumes of market data and trades. High-performance means low-latency (in the millisecond range), high predictability, and the ability to efficiently handle very high volumes at close to the level of one million messages per second. Cisco and its partners are offering an integrated set of technologies to help financial firms accelerate the introduction of the next-generation trading platform.