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TIBCO FTL

In today's markets, even a millisecond can feel like an eternity. As firms compete on speed of execution, success depends on messaging middleware's ability to offer the lowest possible end-to-end latency. TIBCO FTL® is the first messaging software to break the one microsecond latency barrier – without compromising on messaging features. New to this industry-leading technology:

  • Breakthrough performance: TIBCO FTL takes the next step in extreme low-latency messaging by offering sub-microsecond intra-host communication and inter-host communication at single-digit microsecond latency. Performance benchmarks have demonstrated average end-to-end one-way application latencies of 384 nanoseconds for intra-host communication using shared memory transport and 3.1 microseconds using RDMA transport over InfiniBand.*
  • Ground-up design: TIBCO FTL has been designed from the ground-up to leverage breakthroughs in technology including multi-core processors, Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), InfiniBand, 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10-GigE), and Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA).
  • Proven communication backbone: TIBCO's messaging products have been battle-tested in mission-critical environments for over two decades. TIBCO FTL draws from this rich experience in building enterprise-ready high-performance solutions to deliver a robust, extreme low-latency messaging platform that natively integrates with TIBCO Rendezvous®.

Key Features

  • Self-describing data: By offering fully structured, self-describing data, TIBCO FTL avoids imposing any additional processing burden on application developers. Developers can focus on writing high-performance code that is less brittle and more maintainable.
  • Content-based addressing: TIBCO FTL provides increased flexibility by providing native content-based addressing. With this, applications are no longer bound to a topic namespace, which can become rigid and inflexible over time. Content-based subscriptions provide increased flexibility by enabling developers to distribute data based on the content itself and filter data at the subscription level.
  • Centralized administration: TIBCO FTL features powerful "out-of-band" centralized administration capabilities without any performance penalty. Administrators can define transports centrally and alter data distribution without changing a single line of code or involving application developers.
  • Pluggable transports: TIBCO FTL offers the ability to choose from a wide range of transports based on data distribution and performance requirements. The underlying transports can be changed without requiring application downtime. TIBCO FTL supports shared memory transport for intra-host communication and RDMA (InfiniBand® and 10 Gigabit Ethernet), TCP or Reliable Multicast transports for inter-host communication.
  • Independent transport bindings: TIBCO FTL enables applications to publish messages to multiple subscribers across a variety of transports with a single message publish, thereby delivering superior performance for broader data distribution.
  • Seamless integration: With native TIBCO Rendezvous integration and first-class API support for C, Java and .NET, TIBCO FTL provides seamless integration with existing applications and messaging infrastructures.

*Performance metrics based on testing conducted by TIBCO in March 2011. For details on testing methodology, please visit www.tibco.com/ftlbenchmarks


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