Network Congestion Management

Retransmissions. Broadcast storms. Network outages. The only thing worse than a slow network is no network at all.

One of the strengths of a tiered market data architecture is its resilience and its ability to provide appropriate quality of service to all its clients.

Rai Technology's products leverage the inherent strengths of a tired architecture while introducing new possibilities for scaling, managing, controlling and enriching the market data messaging infrastructure:

Quality of Service

A typical market data environment is heterogeneous mix of many types of machines and applications. Providing the appropriate quality of service to data consumers is not only important to the function they perform, but also protects the network from consumers unable to cope with market or network events. Rai Technology's products ensure an appropriate quality of service for each consumer:

• Low latency: The Rai Cache offers sub-millisecond latency in many typical scenarios.
• High-throughput:: The Rai Cache's extremely high throughput ensures that the middle-tier is adding value without limiting data through the system.
• Conflation: Rai ICE reduces update rates and traffic for slow consumers while guaranteeing that applications still receive the data they need in a timely fashion.
• Point-to-point: The Rai Cache can offer tcp connectivity to remote clients or to other Rai Caches servicing remote clients.
• Delayed data

Transport

The Rai Cache supports RV, CiServer, Wombat MAMA, Reuters SSL and TCP and has been designed from the ground up to facilitate the introduction of new transports as they emerge. The Rai Cache can also bridge different transports and protocols offering completely new options for integration and migration efforts.

Monitoring

Rai Insight provides immediate and detailed information on network subscriptions, traffic rates, and retransmissions on TIBCO Rendezvous and CiServer based networks as well as latency monitoring and market data platform statistics.