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Highdeal
and HP IUM Achieve Dramatic Breakthrough in Online Charging
Enterprise-class Servers
Deliver Huge Performance Gains – at a Fraction
of Current Costs
Paris - December 10, 2007
- Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of pricing
& rating solutions, today announced a significant
breakthrough in the online charging systems that telecom
operators use to manage revenue for converged, multimedia
services. Highdeal teamed with HP to show that the combination
of Highdeal Transactive®, HP Internet Usage Manager
(IUM), and HP ProLiant servers running Linux delivers
a price-performance profile previously unattained by
online charging solutions.
In tests conducted at the HP Solutions
Center in Richardson Texas, the combined Highdeal-HP
solution delivered four times higher throughput and
half the latency of any other published benchmark.
Specifically, the combined Highdeal
and HP systems performed charging control, rating and
balance update operations with end-to-end transaction
rates of 24,000 transactions per second (TPS) for session-based
charging with an average latency of 23 milliseconds
per transaction. In an event charging scenario for messaging
services, throughput climbed to 49,000 TPS with average
latency of 8 milliseconds. The results are particularly
striking since the HP ProLiant servers in the test cost
approximately 50 times less than other servers typically
used by telecom operators for their online charging
applications.
Commenting on the benchmark,
Fergus O'Reilly, Highdeal's CTO, said, "We are
proud of these compelling results that are a direct
outcome of a continuous process of careful architecture
design and optimization by the Highdeal R&D team
and the HP IUM product group. They demonstrate that
the combined Highdeal and HP IUM solution can scale
to very large subscriber volumes and manage innovative
pricing and convergent account offers, while scaling
gracefully using cost-effective hardware." The
benchmark used real-world pricing and charging scenarios
with a customer base of 20 million subscribers. Each
modeled subscriber used next generation voice and data
communications services priced using sophisticated bundles
of time and zone-based tariffs, free-units and cross-product
bonuses. Charging was done dynamically among each subscriber's
prepaid, postpaid and credit-limited accounts.
“Our combined online charging
system (OCS) solution drives down the cost of new service
rollouts today, and provides an open, future-proof platform
for high transaction-volume processing—exactly
what our customers have asked for as they deploy IMS-compliant
Service Delivery Platforms,” commented Nigel Upton,
HP IUM General Manager, HP. In the tests, Highdeal Transactive
provided the pricing, rating and online balance management.
HP IUM Charging Manager contributed the real-time session
management, charging control and quota management using
the Diameter Credit Control Application (CCA) protocol
for the service scenarios. Both applications ran on
HP ProLiant servers.
Both Highdeal Transactive and
HP IUM support horizontal scalability to increase overall
capacity by distributing the load gracefully across
multiple hardware servers. This is in marked contrast
to many competing solutions that support only vertical
scalability on large, high-end servers. The Highdeal
and HP IUM approach provides high performance per dollar
spent and much lower total cost of ownership. Highdeal
Transactive R4.0 ran on 5 HP ProLiant DL380 G5 servers,
each with 2 x 2.66 GHz dual-core Intel Xeon CPUs. HP
IUM Version 5.0 ran on 4 of the same servers. The operating
system used was RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0. The solution
is also supported on a wide variety of other platforms,
including HP-UX, Microsoft Windows and many others.
About Highdeal
Highdeal is the world's leading provider of Pricing
& Rating solutions. By delivering unconstrained usage-based business
models coupled with real-time, multi-party transaction management, Highdeal
solves the billing problem for service providers. Proven by 200 deployments
in more than 50 countries, the Highdeal
Transactive® software solution provides greater business agility and
lower TCO. From telecoms, Internet and media sectors, to transportation, logistics,
and financial markets, businesses across the service economy rely on Highdeal
to increase their competitiveness. For more information, visit www.highdeal.com.
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