Slingshot

networking, business, tool, product, protocol CSKSoftware's real time financial server for the Internet.

Slingshot allows the delivery of real time market data across

the Internet and private intranets quickly, cheaply and

securely. The first beta-test version was released free to

the Internet on 6 August 1996. Slingshot allows any financial

institution, regardless of size, to publish their rates and

associated information to a global audience using standard

Internet protocols and software. The real-time data can be

seamlessly integrated into any standard World-Wide Web

application and thus combined with static text, database

queries and even audio and video objects, to create services.

The Slingshot protocol enables the delivery of other forms of

real time data over the Internet, thus making Slingshot useful

in industries as varied as manufacturing, betting, telemetry,

weather, transport and medicine.

Version 2's improved protocol minimises the required

bandwidth and can go through firewalls, proxies, and

virus scanners, making Slingshot real-time data accessible

everywhere where normal web access is possible.

(2003-05-13)