Amdocs, the leading provider of customer experience systems and services, today announced the performance results for the industry’s first virtualized, real-time charging. Tested in a production-like environment1, the solution demonstrated carrier-grade charging performance, with a fivemillisecond latency and sub-second failover (switching between servers) to ensure business continuity. The results show that service provider mission-critical, real-time charging processes,supporting millions of subscribers,can run in virtualized environments.
Conducted at Amdocs’ labs, the benchmark ran Amdocs Convergent Charging using VMware vSphere®2, VMware’s market-leading virtualization solution. Amdocs and VMwareworked together to develop the testing methodology and to deliver carrier-grade, virtualized real-time charging.
“The industry is evolving towards network function virtualizationas a way to help service providers decouple software workloads from hardwareto considerably improve cost-efficiencies and business agility,” said Rebecca Prudhomme, vice president of product and solutions marketing at Amdocs. “To ensure our customers can benefit from the latest advancements in this area, we certifiedour CES 9 product portfolio on VMwarevSphere® and introduced the industry’s first, virtualizednetwork control, and now, real-time charging systems.”
“We are proud to be involved in cutting-edge, communications industry advancements in carrier-grade virtualization and cloud-computing with key players like Amdocs,” said Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. “Virtualized BSS capabilities that can scale up and down ‘on-demand’can help service providers dramatically reduce hardware requirements.”
With the addition of virtualization to AmdocsConvergent Charging, Amdocs is offering the most advanced event-processing, real-time charging system in the market.Amdocs Convergent Charging uses Amdocs’ innovative, real-time charging technology — Amdocs Turbo Charging, which enables best-in-classcharging performance on Linux-based software — and provides dynamic allocation of resources using an elastic, highly available cloud topology.
1The benchmark ran real-time charging scenarios and processed a large number of events per second reflecting real-life activity of millions of subscribers
2 VMware and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions.