Reliable Multicast Training Course
« Back to main newsLondon, January 10, 2001: New course addresses need of financial services participants to understand reliable IP multicast as strategic network capability.
Trading Systems Associates, a leading consulting company specializing in providing solutions to complex financial markets technology problems, today announced that it has created a training programme designed specifically to focus on reliable IP multicast technology as a key component of networks deployed by financial services participants.
TS-Associates will present this course - entitled "A Pragmatic Guide to IP Multicast" in London on January 18, February 15, and March 15, 2001. Dates for New York have not been finalized.
The cost of the full-day course is £650. Those interested in attending should contact TS-Associates.
Said Henry Young, director of Product Strategy at TS-Associates: "Financial institutions face significant challenges in managing the ever-increasing message rates that their networks, clients and servers are required to handle. NYSE and NASDAQ decimalization is further compounding the problem."
Using IP multicast – which combines the best features of broadcasting and unicasting – firms can minimize the data traffic on their networks, and the resulting processing loads on clients and servers. Proprietary forms of reliable IP multicast have been developed by vendors such as TIBCO and Talarian. More recently, open standards such as PGM and RMTP-II have emerged.
Said Matt Campbell, director of High Performance Network Infrastructure at TS-Associates: "Clearly, IP multicast promises to be a great solution to this problem, but its deployment should not be undertaken lightly. As well as the strategic issues of emerging standards, technical matters, such as network design and routing, need to be understood. This course will provide a solid foundation for those looking to implement IP multicast based solutions, whether they be application or network designers."
Among the topics covered in the course will be: an explanation of the concepts of IP multicast, and reliable IP multicast; the evolution and current status of multicast routing; an examination of contemporary reliable IP multicast technologies; an update on open standards for reliable IP multicast; and case studies from the financial services marketplace of the deployment of leading products.
TS-Associates can be contacted here.
