OpenCloud sets new performance benchmark for real-time charging
May 12 2009,
Cambridge, UK, 12th May 2009 – OpenCloud Limited, the supplier of real-time application server software for next-generation convergent telecommunications services, today announces that its JAIN SLEE platform has successfully completed performance trials for large scale real-time charging deployments.
In benchmarking tests conducted at HP’s labs in Cupertino, Rhino handled the real time charging events associated with the calling, messaging and data traffic generated by 86 million subscribers while latency levels measured at the 95th percentile were within the 35 millisecond test target – this being achieved with a footprint of just 10 HP C7000 machines. In today’s 24x7 telecoms environment, increasingly aware consumers demand exceptional customer service – latency that causes loss of service or delayed response to users is therefore unacceptable.
OpenCloud now enables Tier 1 operators to embrace the flexibility offered by emerging online solutions from the IT vendor community, whilst meeting the need for real-time revenue assurance.
Further evidence can be seen in the recent successful deployment by Indonesian GSM operator Telkomsel of OpenCloud’s Rhino server. This is the world’s largest JAIN SLEE implementation and supports thousands of transactions per second. Rhino processes and verifies charges in real-time for event-based and session-based services, irrespective of the location of any of the 67 million subscribers within Indonesia, which has a geographical area comparable to whole of Europe.
“These exceptionally high throughput levels alone are a fantastic achievement, and we are delighted to demonstrate Rhino’s capabilities within a real-time telecoms environment. The results prove that our platform can meet the throughput and performance demands of the largest Tier One operators in the world, with minimal hardware opex and capex costs, such as with our recent Telkomsel deployment,” commented Jeff Gordon, CEO at OpenCloud. “These results prove that operators can now deploy open, industry standard platforms that deliver exceptional performance at vastly reduced costs when compared to traditional Intelligent Network products”.
OpenCloud Rhino is the world-leading carrier-grade, event-driven application server (EDAS) for Java-based telecommunications services. Rhino complies with the Java standard – JAIN SLEE – for network and protocol-independent application servers to provide an asynchronous container for communication applications. JAIN SLEE is the Java standard for a multi-protocol, run-time environment of telecommunications services, designed specifically to meet the stringent requirements of the industry. OpenCloud’s application server offers true portability of services across JAIN SLEE platforms. In doing so, it opens up the market for application developers to sell products which can be deployed on all JAIN SLEE compliant platforms in any telecommunications network.
About OpenCloud
OpenCloud provides the telecommunications industry with Rhino – a real-time application server for agile development, deployment and efficient management of person-to-person communication services. OpenCloud Rhino is a high performance, genuinely carrier-grade service execution environment for traditional and Telco 2.0 services on TDM and IP-based networks It uses commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software to deliver service layer agility to networks at a radically lower price-point than traditional solutions from network equipment providers.
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