Preparing its customers to join the emerging 'Internet of things', IBM has released a new appliance built to manage and route a voluminous amount of machine-to-machine small data messages Preparing its customers to join the emerging 'Internet of things', IBM has released a new appliance built to manage and route a voluminous amount of machine-to-machine small data messages Using the MQTT (the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) format, the IBM Message Site appliance is capable of processing over 13 million messages per second, all of which could arrive from as many as 1 million end-nodes.