Amdocs Turbo Charging and IBM Bladecenter blade servers for breakthrough real-time performance

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1 Amdocs Turbo Charging and IBM Bladecenter blade servers for breakthrough real-time performance Amdocs convergent charging benchmark on IBM blade servers

2 Amdocs Turbo Charging and IBM Bladecenter blade servers for breakthrough real-time performance 2 Contents Introduction... 3 Executive summary... 4 Amdocs Convergent Charging (based on Turbo Charging technology) for superior real-time charging... 5 IBM Bladecenter Blade servers and storage for dynamic infrastructures... 6 Benchmark highlights... 7 Conclusion... 9

3 Amdocs Turbo Charging and IBM Bladecenter blade servers for breakthrough real-time performance 3 Introduction While communication technology and services continue to change and evolve at a furious pace, service providers business needs have remained solid: grow revenues and reduce costs. In emerging markets, mobile operators are experiencing massive growth that results in some of the largest customer bases ever seen. The majority of their revenue streams, however, come from predominantly low-spend prepaid customers. Per unit prices are dropping dramatically to a fraction of those in developed markets, leading to a significant increase in usage for both prepaid and postpaid customers. In such markets, a mobile operator s ability to cost efficiently support subscriber growth while quickly launching new services can have a major impact on the long-term viability of the underlying business model. Operators in developed markets are looking to introduce cutting-edge, convergent services in the face of fierce competition and flattening growth. Add to this the exponential growth of data consumption driven by smartphones and unlimited broadband packages, and the need for affordable scalability and high-end performance becomes critical. Working together, Amdocs and IBM offer cost efficient realtime performance and scalability that service provider s need to successfully face these challenges. Amdocs Convergent Charging based on innovative Turbo Charging technology, lays the foundation for a single real-time charging architecture with outstanding performance across prepaid and postpaid services. IBM BladeCenter blade servers provide a flexible, scalable architecture that enables service providers to maximize performance and minimize costs on an energy-efficient platform that supports the latest POWER6 processor technology.

4 Amdocs Turbo Charging and IBM Bladecenter blade servers for breakthrough real-time performance 4 Executive summary Amdocs and IBM system specialists performed rigorous certification and benchmarking tests which measured the performance, scalability and stability of the Amdocs Convergent Charging product on IBM BladeCenter JS43 blade servers and several storage configurations. The benchmark results clearly demonstrated the superior real-time charging performance and scalability of Amdocs Convergent Charging over IBM BladeCenter blade servers and both IBM XIV Storage System as well as IBM System Storage DS8300. The results showed a new high water performance mark of 230,000 transactions per second for real-time charging of complex prepaid events. Tests also showed equivalent performance on blade and rack mounted systems which mean that customers can benefit from flexibility in hardware platforms and reutilize existing hardware to achieve the same breakthrough results. Amdocs Convergent Charging was also successfully run with virtualization technologies such as micro-partitioning and virtual I/O server. The combination of Amdocs Convergent Charging and IBM BladeCenter technology allows service providers to achieve hardware cost reduction, flexible scalability as well as optimal software component distribution in installations. Simply put, this means more processing power in less space, with reduced operational costs.

5 Amdocs Turbo Charging and IBM Bladecenter blade servers for breakthrough real-time performance 5 Amdocs Convergent Charging (based on Turbo Charging technology) for superior real-time charging Amdocs Convergent Charging is Amdocs latest product for convergent, real-time charging. Based on innovative Turbo Charging technology it delivers significant performance improvements in the real-time charging of complex events across prepaid and postpaid events. The product is designed and tested to run on low-cost servers for cost efficient performance and scalability, further reducing hardware requirements Amdocs Convergent Charging uses a single real-time charging technology (Turbo Charging) to process and charge any type of event regardless of network or payment method, delivering true convergence and consolidation across services and lines of business. Turbo Charging technology utilizes several patent-pending innovations in real-time charging that deliver both enhanced performance together with significant reductions in hardware and software costs: Amdocs Convergent Charging reduces the dependency on costly 3rd party software by utilizing an in-house technology for sophisticated in-memory caching known as Amdocs In- Memory Object Store (AIMOS). AIMOS significantly reduces calls to the database and file-system resulting in faster data access and updates. Pre-compiled rating logic code is used to improve rating performance and eliminate the resource intensive reading of XML files. This performance is achieved with no impact on the business flexibility and sophistication of the Amdocs Product Catalog, which means service providers can continue to quickly define, launch and charge for new services and offers. The massively distributed architecture of Amdocs Convergent Charging also eliminates common bottlenecks associated with centralized data management and event processing. An innovative n+1 architecture reduces hardware costs while still providing the redundancy and availability required for mission critical charging processes. AMDOCS CONVERGENT CHARGING AMDOCS CHARGING SERVER IN-MEMORY OBJECT STORE AMDOCS PRODUCT CATALOG FILE INTERFACE REAL-TIME RATING CHARGING BALANCE MANAGEMENT CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT NETWORK INTERFACE USAGE DATABASE FILES EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS ANY NETWORK / ANY SERVICE

6 Amdocs Turbo Charging and IBM Bladecenter blade servers for breakthrough real-time performance 6 IBM Bladecenter Blade servers and storage for dynamic infrastructures IBM Bladecenter Blade Servers Built on the promise of the Blade Center family of products easy-to-use, integrated platforms with a high degree of deployment flexibility, energy efficiency, scalability and manageability the Blade Center JS23 and JS43 Express are the premier blades for 64-bitapplications. They represent one of the most flexible and cost-efficient solutions for UNIX, i and Linux deployments available in the market. Further enhanced by its ability to be installed in the same chassis with other Blade Center blade servers, the JS23 and JS43 can deliver the rapid return on investment that clients and businesses demand. Delivering on the promise of a truly Dynamic Infrastructure, the JS23 and JS43 help in delivering superior business and IT services with agility and speed all in a simple to manage highly efficient way. IBM System Storage DS8300 IBM System Storage DS8300 is part of the new range of IBM System Storage DS8000 Turbo models, offering high performance, higher capacity storage systems that are designed to deliver a generation skipping leap in performance, scalability, and resiliency. The DS8300 is designed to provide exceptional performance while adding virtualisation capabilities that can help organisations allocate system resources more efficiently. Manage growth and reduce operational complexity consolidation with high-performance solidstate drives, enterprise fibre channel drives, high-capacity Serial ATA (SATA) drives, advanced management capabilities, support for advanced IBM deduplication technology, and thin provisioning. IBM XIV Storage System The IBM XIV Storage System is a next-generation high-end open disk storage system. An integral part of IBM s broad spectrum of system storage and SAN offerings, the XIV system is based on a grid of standard, off-the-shelf hardware components connected in any-to-any topology by means of massively paralleled, non-blocking Gigabit Ethernet. Its innovative architecture is designed to deliver the highest levels of reliability, performance, scalability and functionality at low overall cost, while providing unprecedented ease of management. Outstanding availability and reliability are delivered through a revolutionary redundancy scheme, enabling automated self healing with exceptionally fast rebuild times. Software functionality including snapshotting, thin provisioning and space reclamation, and remote mirroring can help ease provisioning and protect business data from unexpected outages. IBM XIV can help customers deploy an information infrastructure that is reliable, versatile and available while offering improvements in storage management, provisioning and improved asset utilization. 1 GB NETWORK INFINIBAND NETWORK EVENT SERVERS IBM JS43 BLADES WORKLOAD IBM POWER 595 SAN NETWORK DATABASE SERVERS IBM JS43 BLADES IBM XIV STORAGE SYSTEM

7 Amdocs Turbo Charging and IBM Bladecenter blade servers for breakthrough real-time performance 7 Benchmark highlights Conducted at IBM Telecommunications Infrastructure Center for BSS in Montpellier France, the benchmark included various workloads such as offline streams, online streams, charging, rating, and customer balance management activities using a variety of conditions modeled after real-life communications service providers. Configuration: 120 million prepaid subscribers, 30 million postpaid subscribers Hardware & Software Amdocs Convergent Charging 7.5 Details 15 Amdocs Event Server (OLC) processes 15* IBM JS43 blades 8 CPU 4.2Ghz POWER6 128GB memory Storage Option 1: DS8300 storage Storage Option2: XIV storage 128GB cache, 16 Ranks, RAID5, 450 GB disks, 15 Krpm 79TB 180 disks with 120Gb of Cache Real-time charging results Subscribers Events per second Events / sec / core BHCA (based on 3 events per call) Latency Storage options 120M 229,668 3, M 99% events <5ms IBM XIV Storage System 120M 225,448 3, M 99% events <5ms IBM System Storage DS8300 Scalability Number of Amdocs event servers Number of subscribers Average events per sec 3 event servers 24M 42,221 6 event servers 48M 84,828 9 event servers 72M 127, event servers 96M 161, event servers 120M 204,403

8 Amdocs Turbo Charging and IBM Bladecenter blade servers for breakthrough real-time performance 8 SCALABILITY CHART EVENTS/SEC 250, , , ,000 50,000 0 THROUGHPUT 24M 48M 72M 96M 120M NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS NUMBER OF BLADES Postpaid charging results NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS AVERAGE EVENTS PER SEC EVENTS / SEC / CORE 30M ~38,000 ~3,000 Note that the performance recorded in the benchmark center is not a guarantee of equivalent results where the configurations, data, and workload are different.

9 Amdocs Turbo Charging and IBM Bladecenter blade servers for breakthrough real-time performance 9 Conclusion This unique combination of Amdocs real-time rating software and IBM hardware delivers unique value to Tier 1 and 2 prepaid, postpaid and convergent customers, in terms of: Reduced total cost of ownership through superior realtime charging performance on cost efficient IBM BladeCenter blade servers and system storage Proven scalability to support growth needs of Tier-1/2 service providers A cost efficient solution for massive prepaid carriers with carrier-grade performance and latency IBM BladeCenter blade servers and storage systems for dynamic, cost effective infrastructures True consolidation of prepaid and postpaid charging into a single real-time rating platform Enhanced customer experience through real-time services for postpaid customers Significant performance and capacity enhancements using existing hardware

10 About Amdocs For 30 years, Amdocs has ensured service providers success and embraced their biggest challenges. To win in the connected world, service providers rely on Amdocs to simplify the customer experience, harness the data explosion, stay ahead with new services and improve operational efficiency. The global company uniquely combines a market-leading BSS, OSS and network control product portfolio with valuedriven professional services and managed services operations. With revenue of $3.2 billion in fiscal 2011, Amdocs and its over 19,000 employees serve customers in more than 60 countries. Amdocs: Embrace Challenge, Experience Success. For more information, visit Amdocs at Amdocs has offices, development and support centers worldwide, including sites in: THE AMERICAS: ASIA PACIFIC: EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA: BRAZIL AUSTRALIA Austria ISRAEL SPAIN CANADA CHINA CYPRUS kazakhstan SWEDEN COSTA RICA INDIA CZECH REPUBLIC THE NETHERLANDS UNITED KINGDOM MEXICO JAPAN FRANCE POLAND United Arab Emirates - Dubai UNITED STATES Philippines GERMANY RUSSIA Singapore IRELAND SOUTH AFRICA Taiwan THAILAND VIETNAM For the most up-to-date contact information for all Amdocs offices worldwide, please visit our website at Copyright 2012 Amdocs. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction or distribution other than for intended purposes is prohibited, without the prior written consent of Amdocs. The trademarks and service marks of Amdocs, including the Amdocs mark and logo, Intentional Customer Experience, CES, Clarify, Ensemble, Enabler, Return on Relationship, Intelecable, Collabrent, XACCT, DST Innovis, Stibo Graphic Software, Qpass, Cramer, SigValue, JacobsRimell, ChangingWorlds, jnetx, OpenMarket Inc., MX Telecom Inc., MX Telecom Ltd, Streamezzo, and Bridgewater Systems are the exclusive property of Amdocs, and may not be used without permission. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. Created 1/2012