The Tervela TMX Message Switch is a purpose-built, hardware-accelerated messaging device that sits at the heart of the Tervela Message Network™. Unlike legacy, software-based messaging solutions, the TMX overcomes the business and information distribution challenges of the world’s most demanding customers by delivering unparalleled speed, continuous stability and enterprise scalability.
Deployed as a standalone switch or networked with companion switches for fault tolerance or scalable message processing capacity, the TMX interfaces seamlessly with both existing systems and:
Powered by Tervela’s core operating system, the TMX provides the following messaging capabilities:
- Topic Configuration
- Subscription Quality-of-Service Management
- Entitlement Control
- API Authentication
- Protocol Transformation
- Role Management
- Multicast Assignment
It also incorporates business modules and native feed handlers such as Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA) to further extend functionality.
With distinct control and data planes, the TMX drives performance by separating administrative operations from data flows. Tervela’s patent-pending silicon logic enables the TMX to handle and automatically filter an unprecedented number of topics across dynamic and diverse message flows. This ensures that the underlying network and participating computing platforms quickly receive only the information they need.
The TMX is engineered for rich, high-performance enterprise messaging that spans from workgroup scale to massive, inter-organizational coverage. Deployment benefits include:
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High-Volume Throughput—provides individual switch performance that starts at 1.5 million messages per second, with additional substantial headroom to handle large data bursts. Interconnecting switches creates even higher capacity, and the Tervela Message Network has been tested to deliver over 10 million messages per second.
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Ultra-Low Latency—delivers published and verified sub-100 microsecond average latency. Latency remains constant and deterministic even during periods of volatility and data bursts.
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Operational Predictability—removes skew and jitter, thereby ensuring deterministic flows of messages to even the most time-sensitive applications.
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Platform Offload—frees computing nodes of messaging management overhead due to inline filtering. Applications do not suffer from performance degradation.
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Publisher and Subscriber Decoupling—decouples publishers and subscribers from one another so that any processing imbalances, such as slow consumers, do not adversely impact other participants in the message network.
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Transport Optimization—dynamically changes between multicast and unicast communications. This ensures efficient use of network transport services by liberating computing nodes from continually discarding unneeded messages.
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Data Center Efficiency—prevents the need for intense topic partitioning to diverse servers, frees up rack space and diminishes power consumption by reducing the messaging server footprint.
The end result enables investment banks, hedge funds, exchanges and other data-intensive organizations to:
- Seamlessly integrate messaging switches with existing infrastructure
- Assure efficient operations with enterprise scale, unparalleled speed and continuous stability
- Improve performance with ultra-low latency
- Ensure message processing continuity—even during periods of volatility
- Drive revenue opportunities while reducing TCO
Bring a new level of service and performance to your organization. For more information, call us at
+1 646.586.4200, visit our contact us page or send an email to info@tervela.com.
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