Features and benefits

The IBM® WebSphere® DataPower Low Latency Appliance XM70 is IBM’s unique Low Latency Messaging appliance solution, delivering pub/sub messaging and content-based routing at extreme levels of performance in a network device, cutting operational costs and improving security. The XM70 is a non-disruptive technology that allows organizations to extend their existing messaging infrastructures, thus delivering rapid return on investment and reduced total cost of ownership.

Features and benefits include:

• Drop-in messaging solution that plugs into existing network infrastructure

• Optimized to bridge between leading standard messaging protocols such as MQ, TIBCO Rendezvous, TIBCO EMS, WebSphere JMS and HTTP(S)

• Enhanced Quality of Service and performance with purpose-built hardware

• Simplified, configuration-driven approach to low-latency, publish/subscribe messaging and content-based routing

• High availability out of the box (two or more appliances)

• Low-latency unicast and multicast messaging, scaling to 1M messages / sec with microsecond latency

• Web 2.0 interoperability, including JSON filtering and validation, support for REST verbs, and converting/bridging of REST and Web services

• Destination, property and content-based routing, including native XML and FIX parsers

• Simplified deployment, configuration and management providing a quicker time to value by rapidly configuring messaging destinations, connectivity and routing

• Rapidly configurable Web Application Firewall security to protect against cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and a wide variety of XML threats

• Full Hardware ESB capability, including:
  -Acceleration of existing integration hubs
  -Mainframe modernization and Web services
  -Any-to-any transformation
  -Integrated message level security
  -Sophisticated multi-step message routing, filtering and processing
  -Multiple synchronous and asynchronous transport protocols
  -Configurable Quality of Service
  -Detailed logging and audit trail
  -Standards-based interfaces
  -Agile, highly flexible underlying scripting/configuration support
  -XML enablement and wirespeed application integration
  -Metadata-based integration

• For more information on Hardware ESB features, click here