Ultra-Fast, Reliable, and Consistent Message-Oriented Middleware

We Empower Seamless Communication via Messages Across Software Components and Networks.

Ultra-Fast, Reliable, and Consistent Message-Oriented Middleware

We Empower Seamless Communication via Messages Across Software Components and Networks.

Initially emerging from the Reliable Multicast Messaging (RMM) project at IBM, Confinity Low Latency Messaging (CLLM) made its debut in the market as WebSphere MQ LLM back in November 2007. Over the course of a decade, CLLM underwent significant transformations. In a pivotal turn of events, it was acquired by Confinity Solutions GmbH and rebranded as Confinity Low Latency Messaging (CLLM).

CLLM now stands as a robust solution, addressing the challenges faced by financial markets and beyond. This evolution underscores the dynamic landscape of messaging technologies, where speed, reliability, and precision are critical.

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Low Latency Messaging – Made by Confinity Solutions

A robust messaging solution, Confinity Low Latency Messaging (CLLM) features high performance, high availability, high predictability, reliability, effective congestion control, flexible delivery, centralized topic configurations, fine-grained message filtering, and more. The key building blocks of the system include RMM, RCMS, RUM, and CLLMd.

These components keep CLLM running:

Reliable Multicast Messaging (RMM) is a crucial component in distributed systems where messages need to be broadcasted to multiple recipients simultaneously. It plays a vital role when transmitting messages over unreliable User Datagram Protocol (UDP) networks. Unlike TCP, which provides built-in reliability through acknowledgments and retransmissions, UDP lacks these features. In scenarios where low latency and high throughput are essential (such as financial markets), RMM steps in. It ensures that multicast messages reach all recipients, even in the face of network glitches or node failures.

By incorporating mechanisms like duplicate suppression and acknowledgment tracking, RMM achieves reliable delivery without sacrificing performance. In the unpredictable world of UDP, RMM acts as a steadfast bridge, ensuring critical data reaches its intended audience consistently and efficiently.

Reliable and Consistent Message Streaming (RCMS) combines reliability with consistency, utilizing Reliable Multicast Messaging (RMM) for performance, reliability, late joiner support, congestion control, and traffic management. In scenarios like distributed databases, event sourcing, or stream processing, maintaining data integrity is crucial. Reliable and consistent message streaming ensures that events are delivered reliably while preserving their sequence and coherence.

RCMS employs techniques like sequence numbers, acknowledgments, and idempotency to achieve this balance. By providing strong guarantees, it enables applications to process events consistently across distributed nodes. Whether updating financial ledgers or analyzing real-time data, this feature ensures correctness and reliability.

Reliable Unicast Messaging (RUM) focuses on point-to-point communication, where messages are sent from a single sender to a specific receiver. Unlike multicast, which targets a group, RUM ensures precise delivery to individual destinations. It guarantees that messages arrive intact and in the correct order.

In financial applications, RUM facilitates secure interactions between trading desks, risk management systems, and other components. Whether confirming trades, settling transactions, or handling order execution, RUM’s low latency and reliability are paramount. Its simplicity and effectiveness make it a go-to choice for critical real-time communication.

The CLLM daemon process (CLLMd) provides a set of services that extend the core messaging features in RMM, RCMS, and RUM. Its multifaceted function involves bridging networks, ensuring message persistence, centralizing configuration management, enabling monitoring, and preventing split-brain scenarios. In essence, it streamlines communication, enhances reliability, and empowers developers to navigate the complexities of networked systems.

Our Solutions Transform Industries

Confinity Low Latency Messaging (CLLM) is a communication protocol specifically designed for ultra-fast message exchange in distributed systems. While CLLM’s primary focus is on addressing the messaging needs of financial institutions, its capabilities extend beyond the realm of financial markets. Notably, CLLM excels at delivering real-time data reliably over multicast (UDP) networks, making it a powerful choice for a wide range of latency-sensitive applications.

Financial Markets

In high-frequency trading, every millisecond counts. CLLM ensures that critical trade data reaches its destination swiftly and reliably, even over volatile UDP networks.

Urban Mobility

Capable of real-time communication for traffic updates, cooperative cruise control, vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and pedestrian detection, CLLM enhances safety and efficiency in transportation systems.

Innovation Hub

At Confinity Solutions, we continuously strive for innovation, enhancing our product and expanding its impact to serve other industries dealing with substantial data and demanding timely communication.

This is Confinity Solutions

We are a multinational team hailing from diverse corners of the globe. Our rich cultural backgrounds and unique mindsets come together harmoniously to serve customers worldwide.

Stefan Ott, CEO & Founder

Our key objective is to deliver a leading-edge, customer-focused, multi-asset-class and reliable trading system, building on our track record of innovation as a first-mover in electronic markets. Deutsche Börse is proud of its close cooperation with best-in-class partners.

nuam exchange integrates our exchanges (Colombia, Peru, and Chile) to build a new, unique, open, and transformative capital market. We are proud to collaborate with a best-in-class partner for ultra-low latency.

Chi-Tech selected WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging as a messaging backbone for our high performance, low latency matching technology, assuring that our platform continues to meet the speed and mission-critical reliability requirements of today’s algorithmic and high frequency trading communities.