Transport Types

The real world offers varying communication technologies, each appropriate in particular situations. Accordingly TIBCO FTL software offers different types of transports, which you can combine to fit the communication needs of your enterprise.

For example, when publishers and subscribers are co-located on the same host computer, they can use a shared memory transport. When publishers and subscribers are located on separate host computers, linked by a LAN, they can use a multicast transport.

The following diagram shows two such transports. Notice that the two transports carry identical message streams. The publisher sends each message once, but TIBCO FTL software transfers it over both transports.

Transports of Different Types