Technology

L1 and FPGA infrastructure for ultra-low-latency trading

Fintech91 is designing the latency-critical path around deterministic infrastructure components rather than conventional multi-hop software forwarding.

LATENCY-CRITICAL PATH
MARKET DATA
→
L1 / FPGA
→
CLIENT ACCESS
Architecture principles

Designed around deterministic behaviour

Short packet paths

Keep the live market-data path as direct as practical and separate it from management and control-plane functions where the architecture allows.

Hardware-assisted distribution

Evaluate L1 switching, FPGA processing and deterministic fan-out where latency and jitter matter most.

Measured, not assumed

Use hardware timestamping and repeatable methodology before publishing performance claims.

Client isolation

Keep client resources and critical paths logically or physically separated according to the selected service model.

Validation

Validation before production

The current programme is focused on proving fan-out, arbitration, selective traffic handling, isolation and timestamp-based latency measurement before production deployment.

Specific vendor platforms, licensing models and final topology remain subject to technical validation and commercial availability.

No unverified nanosecond claims

Ultra-low-latency describes the design objective and architecture class. Measured end-to-end or component latency will be published only when reproduced in the relevant test or production environment.

See infrastructure