Product Roadmap

Since the introduction of Latency Busters® Messaging (LBM) in 2004, 29West has been the performance leader in the delivery of streaming market data and other low latency, high performance messaging solutions. In discussions with many of our customers it became clear that in addition to our LBM solution for streaming applications, there was a need for new messaging that would combine the performance and low latency of a streaming messaging offering with persistence and delivery confirmation. This need was strongest in the larger firms who wanted a new messaging model to replace legacy messaging solutions enterprise-wide.

Towards the end of 2005, the team at 29West started to work on the design concepts for such an enterprise solution, which was called Ultra Messaging® for the Enterprise (UME). Release 1.0 of UME was provided to early access customers in Q4 of 2006 and went GA in January of 2007.

UME shares the well established and successful LBM API and offers "C", .NET and Java programming interfaces. While providing the same breakthrough performance for streaming data as the industry leading LBM messaging software, UME provides additional support for persistence, a persistent store, delivery confirmation, durable subscriptions, late join support, and a range of failover options.

29West is committed to providing for the needs of the application developer and with UME and LBM offers the developer a choice of a lightweight, high performance streaming messaging product, or a high performance, low latency messaging product for persistence, streaming and delivery confirmation. We are focused solely on the needs of application developers and will continue to grow our solution set based on the feedback and needs of our customers. The table below highlights some of the key features and targeted markets for LBM and UME as well as our longer term plans for UMDS.

29West Ultra Messaging® Products
LBM Latency Busters® Messaging	UME Ultra Messaging® for the Enterprise	UMDS Ultra Messaging® Desktop Services
Low-Latency, High-Speed Streaming Messaging Rel. 3.3.2 currently shipping Publish Subscribe Highly Configurable C API Java API .NET API Remote Stats Monitoring Filtering Gateway Self describing messages Late join support Future releases include: Scripting Interface Authentication & Access Control Latency Measurements Native Infiniband support Mac OS X platform support Windows Vista and 2008 Server platform support	Low-Latency, High-Speed Enterprise Messaging Release 2.0 currently shipping Full LBM Pub/Sub functionality Delivery Confirmation Late Join Support Durable Subscriptions Persistent Store Quorum and Consensus hot-hot store failover model Windows Store Release 3.0 (EA planned Q4 08) Archival and Store API Queuing support	High-Performance Messaging with two levels of service via gateway server Release 1.0 EA planned for Q3 2008: Simplified API with wildcard support AAA for level 2 applications Native Java and .NET support Centralized administration and usage reporting TCP fanout with receiver paced message delivery Allows less latency sensitive applications to interoperate safely with low latency applications
Markets	Markets	Markets
Market data OEM Exchanges Proprietary trading	Order routing Disaster recovery High-Speed persistent applications	For high performance enterprise-wide deployments.
First Release	First Release	First Release
Q4 2004	Q4 2006	Q4 2008
All 29West infrastructure interoperates across your enterprise in a controlled, stable manner, maximizing leverage of your computer and network investments.

If you have an application that needs higher-performance than your current solution can deliver, or if you want a performance advantage over your competitors, contact us. You may soon find you have more than tripled the throughput capabilities with a fraction of the latency that you are seeing today. A head-to-head comparison in your environment is the best way to measure your performance gains.

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