Appendix O. TIBCO Accelerator

The platform server uses the TIBCO Accelerator technology to provide a faster way to send files to remote destinations, where latency problems normally exist in long distance connections.

TIBCO Accelerator provides greatly improved data transfer speeds over high bandwidth and high latency IP networks. With TIBCO Accelerator, transfers are completed up to 10 to 100 times faster than FTP, overcoming the slowness because of latency problems.

TIBCO Accelerator uses its own version of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and parallel implementation of TCP, called Parallel Delivery Protocol (PDP).

Note: Ports 9000, 9002, and 9100 - 9199 must be opened in the firewall to allow the TIBCO client to access the TIBCO server. If requests are initiated from an external computer, these ports must be opened on the firewall for incoming traffic. If requests are initiated from an internal computer, these ports must be opened on the firewall for outgoing traffic.