SonicMQ was chosen by officials at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research – CERN – to form the communications backbone of its Technical Infrastructure Monitoring (TIM) system, designed to alert researchers in the event of an emergency.
The TIM network is used to collect, evaluate, store and distribute information around the clock, to ensure the smooth running of the world’s largest physics laboratory.
SonicMQ allows the system to immediately alert operators in the control centre if there is a project-threatening disruption, such as a fire, cooling system failure or technical breakdown, so that it can be tackled quickly.
Peter Sollander, Technical Infrastructure Operations Section Leader at the project, said: “We chose SonicMQ to form the communications backbone of our technical infrastructure monitoring for its performance and scalability and for its flexible configuration options.”
“We also received the highest level of support from Progress Software. The solution has proven very reliable and ensures a high level of performance. The system must never go down – we are online 365 days of the year, 24 hours a day. As a result, SonicMQ’s role is essential.”
The solution is central to helping the TIM system to process 2.1 million items every day from 150 systems and 50,000 measuring points. It unites disparate data and systems without hampering CERN’s research efforts.
Dr. Giles Nelson, CTO of Progress Software, EMEA, said: “CERN’s complex research cannot afford to be halted due to technology infrastructure failure of any kind. SonicMQ features a message delivery system that ensures information is never lost due to software, network or hardware failure.”
“Organisations like CERN can depend on Sonic for their most complex business transactions and mission-critical communications, whether they are discovering the origins of the universe or simply taking a customer order,” he added.
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About CERN
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. India, Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.