With low cost cloud storage, Big Data, and NoSQL technology becoming widely adopted and utilised, data consumers have never been more empowered. As a result, real-time is now the de-facto and expected frequency for analytical collection and analysis.
Architects of analytical solutions face challenges surrounding the collection, aggregation and movement of such data at scale, from client side applications (potentially supporting high numbers of concurrent clients) to geographically dispersed data centers to platform integration.
Diffusion provides a single communications platform for delivering real-time analytical data, with the ability to intelligently manage large numbers of concurrent client connections and scale with ease. With support for more than 15 client side API’s, Diffusion allows simple and rapid integration to any net connected device, ranging from hardware based set-top boxes, to native iPhone, Android or Blackberry applications.
Diffusion's low latency, ultra lightweight protocol offers bi-directional communications to retrieve and deliver relevant data from multiple disparate systems, supporting intermittent and unreliable connectivity. Utilising HTML5 WebSockets when available, Diffusion automatically selects the most appropriate transport mechanism per client.
Challenges
To support real-time data collection and communications between disparate systems.
- Real-time analytical systems can produce vast quantities of data from many source locations.
- Moving analytical data between systems at scale can impose performance limitations
- Collecting large volumes of analytical data from each client can impact performance and application responsiveness
- Web analytics may take place via several different Internet browsers, as well as mobile devices.
- Communication incompatibility issues may arise for new net enabled devices
Solutions
Diffusion offers a highly scalable and flexible communications solution across all platforms, devices and browsers.
- Lightweight, low latency protocol supporting high volumes of data
- Support for 15+ client side API’s (including mobile) for simple and rapid integration
- Effortlessly support and communicate with large numbers of client connections
- Support for all major web browsers automatically utilising HTML5 WebSocket’s where available
- Scalable communications platform to span multiple data centers and geographies
- Diffusion supports connectivity to ANY net enabled device, future proofing your architecture