The Advantages of Using Hardware-based TCP Fan-out for Enterprise and Low Latency Messaging

By embedding support for point-to-point ‘unicast’ distribution into purpose-built hardware, Solace has overcome the limitations of multicast, specifically the risk of multicast storms, the impact misbehaving clients can have on the system as a whole, and the need to have clients filter out unwanted messages. This means Solace enables point-to-point distribution over TCP with performance, resilience, scalability and manageability superior to multicast.