TS-Associates to exhibit at TradeTech Architecture 2008
« Back to main newsLondon, Dec 13th 2007: Trading Systems Associates plc, specialists in providing solutions to complex financial markets technology problems, is pleased to announce that it will be a sponsoring exhibitor at the TradeTech Architecture 2008 conference, to be held at Le Meridien Hotel, Piccadilly, London, 4th - 6th March 2008. The main exhibit will be TS-A’s unique and ground breaking product - TipOff.
TipOff is a real time middleware analysis and latency monitoring appliance which is gaining traction with financial institutions that are pushing the performance envelope of real-time financial middleware products such as TIBCO Rendezvous, Reuters RMDS, Wombat, 29West LBM and Real-Time Innovations DDS.
TS-Associates specialises in the operational analysis and monitoring of real time middleware infrastructures, and is the leading developer of products in this space. Developed through close partnerships with its customers, TipOff provides unique capabilities in areas such as middleware operational analysis, passive latency monitoring, application behaviour validation, infrastructure utilisation chargeback and capacity planning. TipOff supports an ever increasing spectrum of market data and transaction middleware products and standards. TipOff is a unique product, based on TS-Associates' nine years of experience in building data capture and analysis solutions for real time middleware stacks. Delivered as an appliance solution, TipOff incorporates specialist hardware for packet capture and FPGA accelerated processing, guaranteeing zero packet loss on 1GE, 10GE and Infiniband networks, and enabling the analysis in real time of over one million messages per second. TipOff is in production with leading US and European financial institutions.
Henry Young, TS-Associates’ Director of Product Development, says, "TipOff is a unique product that brings together all our accumulated experience in building data capture and analysis solutions for real time middleware stacks. The advent of FPGA accelerated capture cards, ASIC accelerated data processing cards and high performance 64-bit multi-core processors, has enabled us, for the first time in any product, to capture, decode and analyse well over one million messages per second".
TipOff decodes middleware protocols from the wire, with no reliance on middleware vendor APIs or daemon processes. A vitally important design aim in TipOff is that in order to monitor and analyse the operation of a middleware environment, there should be no dependency on any component of that middleware product. Furthermore, as an appliance product using hardware accelerated capture technology that absolutely guarantees zero packet loss, TipOff is not exposed to the kind of data loss experienced by regular server grade network interfaces, and is thus able to yield a complete forensic analysis of network events such as multicast storms or microbursts.
Henry Young says, “We know of no other product that shares our key enabling capabilities of guaranteed capture coupled with vendor dissociated decode. Add to that our multi-dimensional messaging analysis and passive latency monitoring functionality and we believe that we have a uniquely powerful product on our hands.”
TS-Associates is currently engaged with a number of customers, extending its existing coverage of North American, European and Asian direct exchange feeds, to position TipOff as the universal, multi-platform, cross market, passive latency monitoring solution of choice.
About TS-Associates:
Trading Systems Associates plc partners with leading financial markets participants to overcome the complex technology integration issues that relate to the deployment and management of middleware based financial markets applications.
As a result of its focused technology consulting and through its close partnership with customers, TS-Associates is rapidly establishing itself as the leading developer of appliance based, hardware accelerated, real time middleware monitoring, trouble shooting and analysis products. TipOff, TS-Associates’ first product using proprietary hardware acceleration technology, has been purchased by leading US and European investment banks.
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