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Cisco announced the Cisco Nexus 3548 with Algorithm Boost technology, a groundbreaking networking innovation which delivers up to 60 percent network-access performance improvement over competing full-featured 10 Gigabit (GB) Ethernet switches.

Designed for use in high performance computing, high performance trading, and big data environments, the new switch offers network-access performance as low as 190 nanoseconds (ns), Cisco announced in a press statement.

It said the speed is a huge performance improvement enabled by the unique Algo Boost technology developed by silicon engineers at Cisco.

Cisco said the Nexus 3548 can give traders a competitive advantage because globally interconnected financial markets need speedy trading networks. Financial traders gain competitive edge with Cisco Nexus 3548 high-performance switch that breaks the 200-nanosecond latency barrier, the press statement said.

The Cisco Nexus 3548 with Algo Boost enhances the Cisco High Performance Trading Fabric architecture that helps enable greater business agility and intelligence for customers without imposing performance or latency penalties.

The Nexus 3548 is Cisco's second generation Nexus 3000 product built from custom silicon containing Algo Boost technology. It is targeted towards high performance workloads such as trading, HPC, and big data. The core features of the Nexus 3548 include -

- Ultra Low Latency - as low as 190ns with Warp mode

- Multicast feed replication at latencies as low as 50ns with Warp SPAN

- Active Buffer Monitoring for in-production performance visibility

- Network Address Translation with no latency hit

- Precision Time Protocol for high precision time synchronization.