Specialist expertise
Corvil, run by someone who has actually run it.
Alongside our DevOps, SRE and SecOps work, this is the specialism we are called in for on its own. Corvil turns raw packets into an authoritative record of what your trading and market-data infrastructure really did — but only if the capture architecture, decoders and instruments are right. That is the part we do.
Corvil Certified Experts CCE — Electronic Trading · certified by Pico
Capabilities
What we cover
- Deployment, upgrades and migration Greenfield builds, version upgrades and platform migrations, planned so that measurement continuity is preserved rather than quietly lost.
- Capture architecture Tap and SPAN design, packet brokers, aggregation and filtering — making sure the traffic you need is actually reaching the analysers, and that you know what it is missing.
- Appliance and software sensors Sizing and placement across physical, virtual and co-located environments, including remote sites and constrained cabinets.
- Protocol decoders and instruments FIX, ITCH, OUCH, FAST and proprietary market-data and order-entry protocols; instrument configuration so the analytics reflect your actual order flow.
- Latency baselining and troubleshooting Wire-time measurement, microburst and queueing analysis, packet loss and market-data gap investigation, and order lifecycle tracing across the hop chain.
- Capacity planning and retention Capture-to-disk sizing, retention policy and growth modelling, so the evidence you need is still there when someone asks for it.
- Alerting, dashboards and integration Meaningful thresholds instead of noise, and feeds into the observability stack you already run rather than another isolated console.
- Regulatory timestamping MiFID II RTS 25 clock synchronisation and traceability — PTP and time-source design, divergence monitoring and the evidence trail to support it.
Engagements
How this usually starts
- Health check. A short review of an existing deployment: what is covered, what is blind, what the data is quietly failing to tell you, and a prioritised list of fixes.
- Build or upgrade. Scoped delivery of a new deployment or a version migration, with the capture design done first rather than retrofitted.
- Investigation. A specific latency, loss or sequencing problem that needs someone who can read the packets and the platform together.
- Ongoing support. Retained availability for change windows, tuning and escalation, plus handover training so your team is not dependent on us.
Who this is for
Environments where microseconds are evidence
Proprietary trading firms, brokers, exchanges and venues, market-data vendors, and the network and infrastructure teams inside banks.
If you are being asked to prove what your infrastructure did — by a client, a venue, a regulator or your own trading desk — the answer has to come from the wire. We make sure it can.