Decoding

Stack probes need to process the captured data in order to perform any further functions on it. This is decoding. Decoding may be as simple as reading the outer VLAN tags of a particular packet, or as complex as accessing a particular message field for a particular financial market protocol.

Since messages from different entities don’t share a common format, Beeks Analytics uses a rich library of decoders that map the captured data to Beeks' own format. There is a decoder for every entity and message type supported by Beeks Analytics.

Beeks Analytics has built-in decoders for the majority of the world’s financial markets and common underlying protocols. See Beeks Analytics Decoder Information for a list of the decoders which Beeks currently supports. Beeks also provides tools which make it easy to decode new protocols or private protocols for which there is no pre-existing decoder for. Contact Beeks Sales or your Beeks Analytics Integration & Delivery team if you have a question about a particular decoder you want to see.

Beeks Analytics has a special kind of decoder collector called a mapper which can transform and recompute data as it passes through the stack. Mappers can also perform some filtering functionality (e.g. filtering out retransmitted messages) but there is also a dedicated filter decoder type which can be used for more specialized tasks like de-duplication or message hashing.