Beeks Analytics is architected to take advantage of standard off-the-shelf commercially available servers and FPGA cards to provide horizontally scalable performance that can deal with the broadest range of financial market traffic volumes.

These cards are configured for use as part of the VMX-Capture configuration.

There are two types of FPGA card used in VMX-Capture:

• Capture cards – Required for all live packet capture and replay scenarios

• Compression cards – Used to compress packet data before it’s written to disk, improving throughput. Only applicable to live packet capture, and not mandatory.

See Beeks Analytics Appliance Hardware Options for details of the FPGA card models that are qualified with VMX-Capture, and the number of cards supported in different server chassis form factors.

See the notes in the Beeks Analytics Performance Guide about compression cards to gauge which use cases are suited to compression cards and how the compression cards can be scaled.