| 29West | |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Headquarters | Warrenville, Illinois, USA |
| Key people | Mark Mahowald, Founder & CEO Todd Montgomery, Principal Software Architect |
| Industry | Software |
| Products | LBM, UME |
| Employees | 30 (2008) |
| Website | www.29west.com |
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The company's major competitor is TIBCO Software. TIBCO Software Inc is a software company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
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History
Shortly after Talarian Corporation merged with TIBCO Software inc. in April 2002, Mark Mahowald (COO of Talarian) founded 29West, Inc. Talarian was a provider of real-time infrastructure software Now part of TIBCO, it was a veteran provider of message-oriented Middleware. TIBCO Software Inc is a software company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. In mid 2003, 29West began to focus on the market for high speed messaging and approached a number of firms with the goal of creating a new MOM product. Message-oriented middleware (MOM is a client/server infrastructure that increases the interoperability portability and flexibility of an application by allowing the application In early 2004, Todd Montgomery joined 29West as the senior architect. Todd had earlier helped define[1] and implemented PGM. Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM is a Reliable multicast transport protocol One early customer was Wombat Financial Software who was looking for a high performing alternative to other commercial messaging products in the market at the time. In June of 2004, 29West announced Wombat as its first messaging customer, and in November 2004 announced the general availability release of their initial product offering, LBM (Latency Busters Messaging). In late 2006, 29West released their second major product, UME (Ultra Messaging for the Enterprise).
29West's primary customers are banks, trading firms, and exchanges. A banker or bank is a Financial institution whose primary activity is to act as a payment agent for customers and to borrow and lend money A broker-dealer is a company that trades securities for customers as well as for its own account A stock exchange, share market or bourse is a Corporation or Mutual organization which provides "trading" facilities for Stock
Products
29West's core product is LBM (Latency Busters Messaging). Although LBM supports multiple protocols (TCP, Unicast UDP, Multicast UDP), its primary emphasis is on 29West's proprietary Reliable Multicast protocol. The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. In Computer networking unicast transmission is the sending of information packets to a single destination User Datagram Protocol ( UDP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. Multicast is a network addressing method for the delivery of Information to a group of destinations simultaneously using the most efficient strategy LBM offers topic-based publish/subscribe semantics without a central server. Publish/subscribe (or pub/sub is an Asynchronous Messaging Paradigm where senders (publishers of messages are not programmed to send their messages Its primary design goal is to minimize latency. Customers incorporate LBM into their own software via the LBM API.
A more recent product from 29West is UME (Ultra Messaging for the Enterprise). This product leverages the LBM API, but adds delivery confirmation, durable subscriptions, late join support and other persistence-related functionality.
Notes
External references
- Company site
- High Performance, Low Latency Messaging: Where is the Market Headed? - origin of LBM design.
- Topics in High-Performance Messaging - General information on messaging, not specific to 29West or LBM.
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