AsiaInfo's Customer Management and Billing Software, AIOBS 5.6, Shows High Performance and Scalability in a Benchmark Test.Business/High-Tech Editors BEIJING & SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2000 AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. ), a leading provider of Internet infrastructure solutions and software products in China, recently conducted a benchmark test on Sun's platforms using Oracle's databases with its customer management and billing software, AIOBS 5.6. This benchmark test, conducted at Sun's Asia Pacific Benchmark Center in Tokyo, demonstrated superb performance and scalability of this software. Three parameters representing a difference aspect of AIOBS' performance and scalability were measured: throughput, login latency and billing latency. With over 12 million users loaded, the benchmark result yields an average throughput of 479 transactions per second In a very generic sense, the term Transactions Per Second refers to the number of atomic actions performed by certain entity per second. In a more restrictied view, the term is usually used by DBMS vendor and user community to refer to the number of database transactions performed (TPS (1) (Transactions Per Second) The number of transactions processed within one second. TPS is a better rating for the performance of hardware and software than the common MHz and GHz rating of the computer. ), an average login latency of 222 milliseconds and an average billing latency of 1900 milliseconds. The Internet billing industry generally believes that a billing system needs to have a peak time throughput of 360 TPS to support a 12 million user base. The AIOBS benchmark results show a throughput that exceeds industry average and latencies that are well below the user-required latencies. "Our benchmark results indicate AIOBS 5.6 will outperform most other billing software products on the market," said Steve Zhang, Senior Vice President of Software at AsiaInfo. "These test results reconfirm re·con·firm tr.v. re·con·firmed, re·con·firm·ing, re·con·firms To confirm again, especially to establish or support more firmly: reconfirmed the reservations. our technology leadership position in the area of customer management and billing. AIOBS provides advanced performance and high scalability meeting the needs of service providers." "The benchmark result of AsiaInfo's AIOBS 5.6 on Sun's platform is superior. The product easily supports millions of users, showing great scalability and efficiency," said Mr. Hisashi Nishijima, manager at Sun's Asia Pacific Benchmark Center. About AIOBS AIOBS is a state-of-the-art IP billing and customer care system based on robust technologies such as CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global and RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database . Its real-time and carrier class capabilities benefit both the end users and the Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. . It provides many out-of-box billing options as well as an open and flexible API, which allow Internet service providers to quickly respond to customers' needs. The out-of-box services supported by AIOBS 5.6 include Dial-up, ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. , VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. , xDSL, VoiceOverIP and more. About AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASIA) is a leading provider of Internet infrastructure, total solutions and software in China, one of the world's fastest growing Internet markets. The company offers telecommunications service providers in China total network solutions for their Internet infrastructure requirements and develops proprietary software for Internet service providers, Internet content providers and telecommunications service providers. Since it moved its operations from the U.S. to China in 1995, AsiaInfo has served as a chief architect of China's Internet infrastructure. AsiaInfo has been pioneering the development of China's Internet infrastructure by designing and building the first national commercial Internet backbone (communications, networking) Internet backbone - High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic. These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. in China, ChinaNET, as well as the first provincial Internet backbone in China, GuangdongNET. The company is also building the other two national commercial Internet backbones A group of communications networks managed by several commercial companies that provide the major high-speed links across the country. ISPs are either connected directly to these backbones or to a larger regional ISP that is connected to one. in China: UniNET of China Unicom and CNCNET of China Netcom. AsiaInfo develops, markets and supports real time, scalable and adaptable proprietary Internet software solutions tailored to meet the needs of clients in China. The company's customer management and billing software products meet the complex, mission-critical provisioning, accounting, reporting and marketing needs of Internet and telecommunications service providers. The company also offers carrier-scale-messaging products to Internet service providers in China. For more information about AsiaInfo, please visit http://www.asiainfo.com. The statements in this news release contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from anticipated results. Further information on risk factors that could affect AsiaInfo's results of operation are detailed in AsiaInfo's registration statement, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A copy of the registration statement, including exhibits, may be reviewed at the Commission's public reference room at Judiciary Plaza, 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549. The registration statement and other company filings can also be reviewed by accessing the Commission's Internet site at http://www.sec.gov, which contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding registrants that file electronically with the Commission. |
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