Amdocs Enabler Demonstrates Industry Leading Performance, Scalability, and Cost Performance on Sun.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 3GSM World Congress 2003 Hall #1, Booth #B24 CANNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2003 Amdocs (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DOX DOX Design of Experiments DOX Direct Operational Exchange ) Key carrier-grade performance parameters achieved by Amdocs Enabler, running on Sun Fire 6800 and Sun Fire 15K The Sun Fire 15K is an enterprise-class server computer from Sun Microsystems. General availability was in January 2002; the last to be shipped was in May 2005. It has been superseded by the Sun Fire E25K. Servers: -- Supported database of 30 million subscribers, including complex business accounts -- Online and offline charging -- rating over 20,000 events per second -- Prepaid processing -- over 3,900 events per second -- Acquisition and formatting -- over 118,000 events per second -- Supported online CSR service for over 35,000 concurrent users Amdocs (NYSE:DOX), the world's leading provider of billing and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , announced today that its next generation billing products -- Amdocs Enabler and its extended configurations, Amdocs Mobile, Amdocs Wireline -- and Sun servers, demonstrated unmatched scalability and performance capabilities in recent benchmark tests. The products underwent 10-weeks of intensive testing, utilizing real-world customer scenarios and were monitored by a number of Amdocs tier 1 customers. These benchmark results, together with live production performance at excelcom and other customers, confirm Amdocs Enabler's unique ability to support both voice and next generation services under the rigorous market conditions faced by leading CSP's. Utilizing real-world, complex pricing scenarios, the Amdocs Enabler benchmark tests were conducted using both hierarchical business and residential accounts in a database of 30 million subscribers. The Sun Fire 15K Server and StorEdge 9980 running under the Solaris 9 Operating Environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. demonstrated the capabilities to handle the largest deployments of Amdocs products where performance, scalability, and manageability are essential for business critical operations. The acquisition and formatting processed over 118,800 events per second for voice and data services, supporting both real-time and batch modes of operation. The Amdocs Enabler rating module processed over 20,100 events per second based on pricing plans that included time and date considerations, per minute and per event-based rating demonstrating near linear scaling. Additional tests were run on the mid-range Sun Fire 6800 server for prepaid and online services. Amdocs Enabler processed over 3,900 prepaid events per second including authorization, balance reservation, charge and debit actions with a latency of up to 10 milliseconds for 97% percent of transactions. This industry leading performance allows operators to confidently launch enhanced prepaid voice, data content and commerce services. As prepaid and online services requirements continue to grow, customers can be confident that migrating to the Sun Fire 15K Server will provide a seamless upgrade path to accommodate computing needs above that delivered by the Sun Fire 6800. Additionally, Amdocs Enabler provided an average response time of less than 0.4 seconds when supporting over 35,000 Customer Service Representatives (CSRs). The product scaled linearly from 5,000 through 35,000 concurrent users. "The benchmark results reflect Amdocs impressive capabilities in the area of carrier-grade scalability and performance," said Paul Hughes Paul Hughes (born 19 April 1976 in Hammersmith) is a retired English footballer who played in midfield. Hughes began his career with his local side, Chelsea, and started well, scoring on his debut again Derby County with an impressive solo effort. , Director of Billing and Payment Application Strategies with the Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. . "Together with recent successful product deployments of Amdocs Enabler, the benchmark demonstrates that it is possible to achieve the flexibility required for next-generation services without sacrificing the carrier-grade power needed to support legacy voice environments." Amdocs utilizes a best-of-breed, open architecture approach, ensuring that CSPs have maximum choice in their technology investment. This approach combines Amdocs expertise in billing and CRM with infrastructure technology from industry leading partners, to deliver unmatched performance and scalability. Amdocs partners also participated in the monitoring of the benchmark. Utilizing Amdocs open architecture, the tests were performed using various configurations of the following technologies: -- Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Sun Fire 6800 and Sun Fire 15K servers, Sun StorEdge 9980 system, Solaris- 8 & 9 OS and Sun ONE Application Server 7. -- Oracle 9.2 64-bit version Database management software, Oracle 9iAS application server. -- TimesTen(R) 4.3 in-memory database A database that keeps all active records in main memory rather than on disk. Accessing in-memory records is considerably faster than retrieving them from the disk. technology to support real-time event processing. -- Mercury Interactive For another company with a similar name, see Mercury Computer Systems. HP Mercury (formerly Mercury Interactive) is a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard that is a market leader in automated software quality assurance and offers products in other areas such as diagnostics, LoadRunner on-line load testing software Software that tests a system's ability to handle a heavy workload. The software simulates multiple transactions or users interacting with the computer at the same time and provides reports on response times and system behavior. . -- BEA WebLogic A software suite from BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (www.beasys.com) that is used to deploy Web and SOA applications. The core product is BEA WebLogic Server, a J2EE application server. Server 7.0 application server and BEA Tuxedo A TP monitor from BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (www.beasys.com) that runs on a variety of Unix-based computers. Originally developed by AT&T and sold as source code, Novell acquired it, enhanced it and offered it as shrink-wrapped software for various Unix servers. transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. platform. -- IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) WebSphere and MQ/Series application server and middleware platforms. -- Precise software solutions I3 package for end-to-end performance monitoring and profiling. Wayne Purboo, Vice President of Research and Development at Amdocs, said, "Communications service providers are moving towards a convergent billing platform for voice and next generation services. In this environment, our customers recognize that carrier-grade scalability and performance are becoming even more crucial to success, especially in mission-critical areas such as voice operations and real-time prepaid services. Scalability is also an important consideration for minimizing total cost of ownership. In this respect, we were particularly impressed by Amdocs Enabler's performance metrics Performance metrics are measures of an organizations activities and performance. Performance metrics should support a range of stakeholder needs from customers, shareholders to employees [1]. when utilizing the Sun Fire 6800, BEA WebLogic Server and BEA Tuxedo. These results demonstrate the outstanding cost-performance Amdocs Enabler offers to our customers." About Amdocs Enabler Amdocs Enabler supports billing for next generation voice, data and content services. Amdocs Enabler is an integrated online-offline charging platform, allowing operators to support prepaid-postpaid convergence with one product. Amdocs Enabler is a proven carrier-grade, real-time product, pre-configured for rapid deployment and low cost of ownership. Designed for modular expansion, Amdocs Enabler is a fully integrated subset of the Amdocs Mobile platform, and can be enhanced with add-on components such as Commerce Payments, Partner Relationship Management (PRM PRM Partner Relationship Management PRM Parameter PRM Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (US State Department) PRM Partidul Romania Mare (Romania Mare Party) PRM Professional Risk Manager ) and Amdocs ClarifyCRM. About Amdocs Amdocs is the world's leading provider of billing and CRM. With a 20-year track record of delivery excellence, our products empower major communications operators around the globe. We enable rapid time-to-market for next generation voice, content, commerce and application services, while enhancing subscriber loyalty and lowering total cost of ownership. We offer our customers flexible modes of delivery -- products, solutions and outsourcing. For more information, visit our web site at www.amdocs.com. Note to Editors: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Sun Fire, Sun StorEdge and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. |
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