Tibco Software announced an extreme-low latency messaging technology that is targeted at capital markets customers. Based on Tibco’s internal testing, “Tibco FTL” has an average application latency of 384 nanoseconds for intra-host communications, whereas its closest competitor had results between 600 and 700 nanoseconds, noted McNamara, a latency advantage of 40 percent.
When optimized for inter-host communications for RDMA over Infiniband, Tibco FTL’s latency was 3.1 microseconds, which Tibco says is a little over 40 percent faster than its nearest competition, Informatica, which has claimed that its inter-host latency is 5.2 microseconds.
Built from the ground up, Tibco FTL—whose internal code name was “Faster Than Light”— is meant for electronic trading of high performance algorithms on massively multi-core machines.
Tibco Unveils Extreme Low-Latency Messaging Technology – Wall Street & Technology