Aspera gateway can improve performance over high latency networks

The IBM Aspera fasp.io Gateway provides a fast TCP/IP tunnel that can significantly increase network throughput for IBM MQ.

The Aspera gateway can be used to improve the performance of queue manager channels. It is especially effective if the network has high latency or tends to lose packets, and it is typically used to speed up the connection between queue managers in different data centers.

However, for a fast network that does not lose packets there is a decrease in performance when using the Aspera gateway, so it is important to check network performance before and after defining an Aspera gateway connection.

A queue manager running on any entitled platform can connect through an Aspera gateway. The gateway itself is deployed on Red Hat or Ubuntu Linux, or Windows.

For more information, see Defining an Aspera gateway connection on Linux or Windows.