CEP Sparks Network Vendor Momentum

Low latency network discussions are heating up around the big data space as vendors see the emergence of applications and algorithms that demand hyper-fast data movement. Among these areas is the field of complex event processing, which is on the rise in verticals including retail, Web 3.0 and social network-related businesses and of course, financial services.

The focus on the network goes beyond the expected 10GbE vendor list, of course, Last week Intilop demonstrated the new generation of their low-latency 10G TCP Offload Engine, which they claim is tailored to meet the needs of the financial services industry as well as a number of “big data” application areas, including complex event processing.

The company provides the building blocks for high performance networks and systems and the 10G TCP Offload Engine is at the core, at least for the big data markets they are targeting. The 10G TOE products leverage all-hardware TCP protocol offload, which Intilop says brings them to the 100-nanosecond latency benchmark. They claim that innovations in their 10G TOE line have pushed forth the financial services industry’s recognition of the “nanosecond trading revolution.”

According to the Intilop, their 10G TOW “can be effectively applied to gain near wire-speed competitive edge inside order execution management systems.” They say that it can be used in “order-flow matching engines, pre-trade modeling, post-trade surveillance, trade-time risk mitigation, complex event processing algorithms, regulatory compliance and ‘big data’ traffic pattern recognition systems.”

The Silicon Valley-based company has a number of recognizable names in its client roll, including General Dynamics, HP, Fujitsu, Lockheed Martin and a number of companies in the Fortune 1000.

Other high performance networking companies are jumping on the big data ship as well, targeting their offerings toward similar verticals–and moving beyond the realm of traditional HPC.