29West Announces Support for Voltaire InfiniBand.Combined Solution Brings High Performance, Low Latency Low latency allows human-unnoticeable delays between an input being processed and the corresponding output providing real time characteristics. This can be especially important for internet connections utilizing services such as online gaming and VOIP - VOIP is not as important as Messaging to Financial Markets NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- 29West, Inc., pioneers in low-latency messaging technology, and Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : VOLT), a leader in grid backbone solutions, today announced support for 29West's Messaging API's on Voltaire's InfiniBand solutions, providing system architects with the high performance of Voltaire's InfiniBand-based switches and software and 29West's low-latency messaging technology. The combined solution delivers significantly higher performance and lower latency to market data and other financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. messaging applications than solutions using Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. . "We are very pleased to be working with Voltaire and to be able to offer Voltaire's financial services customers a substantially higher performance messaging choice as part of this industry leading solution. As latency and stability under load become more and more critical, we are seeing continued growth in the market for our Latency Busters[R] Messaging (LBM LBM Lean Body Mass (medical/health) LBM Lumber and Building Materials LBM Pounds Mass LBM Lattice Boltzmann Model LBM Laser Beam Machining LBM Little Brown Mushroom (mycologist slang) ) and Ultra Messaging[TM] for the Enterprise (UME U·me A river, about 459 km (285 mi) long, of northern Sweden flowing southeast into the Gulf of Bothnia. ) products. The trend is toward higher performance data delivery and that trend is forcing many firms to reconsider how they distribute and share data. This pressure towards low latency and high performance plays well for us, given our performance advantages over the other commercial messaging products available today," said Mark Mahowald, president and founder of 29West. 29West's LBM is a fast, efficient, lightweight messaging system Software that provides an electronic mail delivery system. It is made up of the following functional components, which may be packaged together or independently. Mail User Agent targeted specifically at low-latency, high-speed streaming messaging applications. UME is a low-latency, high-speed persistent messaging solution with delivery confirmation that is designed for larger firms that need a new messaging model to replace legacy messaging solutions enterprise-wide. InfiniBand is an industry-standard interconnect architecture that delivers I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output fabric performance demanded by data centers, high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. and embedded environments. Offering high bandwidth of 10 - 60 Gbps, RDMA-based messaging and low latency, InfiniBand is a technology for addressing market data infrastructure challenges. Voltaire and 29West's Messaging provide financial trading operations with a software solution that enables the integrated use of the many advantages InfiniBand offers across their market data infrastructure, including significantly lower application-to-application latency than that provided by other existing architectures. The solution also leverages Voltaire's software libraries for application acceleration and multi-service switches with integrated InfiniBand, GbE and FC ports, which can offload external network traffic to improve the efficiency of the overall solution. "High-performance messaging is becoming increasingly important to Voltaire's financial services customer base," said Amir Prescher, vice president of business development, Voltaire. "We look forward to working with 29West to use our InfiniBand-based solutions to bring significantly higher performance, lower latency messaging solutions to market." About 29West 29West is the leader in high-performance, low-latency messaging solutions for financial institutions. Founded in 2002 by Mark Mahowald (former COO of Talarian), 29West team members have been at the forefront of high-speed, real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. distribution and networking since the mid-1980s. From its first release in November 2004, 29West's Latency Busters[R] Messaging (LBM) has set a new standard in performance for financial market messaging and has been deployed in over 100 firms worldwide. With the introduction of Ultra Messaging[TM] for the Enterprise (UME) at the end of 2006, 29West has added persistence and delivery confirmation to its industry-leading messaging product offerings. With offices in Chicago, New York, and London, 29West supports the financial markets worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.29west.com About Voltaire Voltaire designs and develops server and storage switching and software solutions that enable high-performance grid computing grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as well as high availability by employing multiple computers—typically personal within the data center. Voltaire refers to its server and storage switching and software solutions as the Voltaire Grid Backbone([TM]). Voltaire's products leverage InfiniBand technology and include director-class switches, multi-service switches, fixed-port configuration switches, Ethernet and Fibre Channel routers and standards-based driver and management software. Voltaire's solutions have been sold to a wide range of end customers including governmental, research and educational organizations, as well as enterprises in the manufacturing, oil and gas, entertainment, life sciences and financial services industries. Founded in 1997, Voltaire Ltd. is headquartered in Herzeliya, Israel, and has its U.S. headquarters in Billerica, Massachusetts Billerica (IPA: [bɪl.'ɹɪ.kə]) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 38,981 at the 2000 census. Its name is pronounced "bill-RICK-a", rather than rhyming with America. . More information is available at www.voltaire.com. All product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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