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BSCS iX Benchmark on Sun Fire E25K

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Title

BSCS iX Benchmark on Sun Fire E25K

Document Version

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Published

August 2006

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Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Executive Summary

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Solutions for Today and the Future from LHS and Sun

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BSCS iX

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BSCS iX Advances............................................................................................................................4

Key Features......................................................................................................................................5

Key Business Benefits......................................................................................................................7

The Sun Fire E25K Server

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Solaris Operating System ................................................................................................................9

Benchmark Test Environment

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Hardware Environment...................................................................................................................12

Sun Fire E25K Servers .....................................................................................................................12

IO Subsystem....................................................................................................................................13

Hardware................................................................................................................................13

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Databases.........................................................................................................................................13

BSCS iX Setup.................................................................................................................................14

Benchmark Results

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Rating and Billing Preparation.......................................................................................................15

Charging Interface...........................................................................................................................16

Main Rating Applications ...............................................................................................................16

Rate Input Handler and Pre-Rate Input Handler...............................................................................16

Cost Control ......................................................................................................................................17

Balance Storage Handler ..................................................................................................................17

Complete BSCS iX Rating Chain......................................................................................................17

Best Option Plan .............................................................................................................................18

Rate Load Handler...........................................................................................................................18

Billing ...............................................................................................................................................19

Single Subscriber Billing ...................................................................................................................19

Single Subscribers with Promotions..................................................................................................20

Single Subscribers with Free Units ...................................................................................................20

Immediate Billing...............................................................................................................................20

Customer Management Server ......................................................................................................21

CMS Batch ........................................................................................................................................21

CMS Client Simulation ......................................................................................................................21

Selfcare Center .................................................................................................................................22

Conclusions

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Executive Summary

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Executive Summary

With IT and business requirements in the telecommunications industry becoming

increasingly complex, service providers rely more than ever on proven technology

from reliable vendors. Rapid developments in technology have paved the way for

advanced voice, data, and content services. Transaction volumes in the

telecommunications industry have reached new heights, meaning that system

performance has never been more critical. In order to handle large loads of data.

Working together, Sun and LHS offer the reliable, high-performance solution you need

to face these challenges. The BSCS iX architecture lays the groundwork for

outstanding performance outputs. With its parallel processing capabilities in rating and

billing, BSCS iX has achieved excellent results in these latest benchmark tests run on

the Sun Fire E25K server with the Sun Solaris operating system.

BSCS iX is certified for the latest hardware platforms, and its flexible and highly

scalable architecture can support operators whose subscriber numbers range from

entry level to 40 million and beyond.

In general, benchmark figures are meaningful only if they are based on “real-life”

conditions. In the laboratory, such conditions are stressed to the extreme to identify

and overcome potential boundaries and bottlenecks. The traffic logic varies from

medium to complex to ensure a realistic rating load. Typical usage patterns are

applied for traffic simulation.

Key results from the benchmark performance test are as follows:

Result Summary

Supports 40 Mio.

Subscribers

Billing for 40 million subscribers efficiently achieved

Supported 4800 concurrent users with response times < 1s

Billing

1.125 million bills produced per hour

1.265 million bills produced per hour

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129 thousand immediate billing requests processed per hour

Rating

278 million records rated per hour

Customer Care

Approximately 600 thousand contracts created per hour

Served 4800 concurrent customer service representatives

Supported 10,000 concurrent self-care clients

Startup

Data for 40 million subscribers extracted in 45 minutes

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This measurement demonstrates the performance improvement gained with the

recently announced 1.8 GHz USIV+. All other benchmark tests were executed using

USIV+ processors clocked at 1.5 GHz.

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Solutions for Today and the Future from LHS and Sun

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Solutions for Today and the Future from LHS and Sun

BSCS iX from LHS and the Sun Fire servers combine state-of-the-art technologies to

create a powerful business support solution that responds to the challenges facing the

telecommunications industry.

BSCS iX

BSCS iX is a scalable, modular customer management, rating, and billing solution that

can be installed quickly and is able to support innovative marketing and pricing of

telecommunications services. BSCS iX is based on a client/server architecture with a

UNIX operating system on the server side and a combination of Web-client

applications and Microsoft Windows operating systems on the client side. BSCS is

installed at over 130 sites around the world and supports a wide variety of

technologies to meet the most demanding service provider requirements.

Sun Fire Servers

The Sun Fire E25K server that was used in this performance test is a powerful

enterprise-class system equipped with up to 72 UltraSPARC IV+ processors. The

system's performance has been proven time and again in a long list of benchmarks,

which demonstrated both the power of each processor and the scalability up to

numerous processors. This server – just like Sun's other Sun Fire systems – also

provides an impressive set of RAS (Reliability / Availability / Serviceability) features

such as predictive self-healing, dynamic reconfiguration, and dynamic resource

management. These features are complemented by the world-class system and

resource management capabilities of the Solaris operating system.

The long-term partnership between LHS and Sun Microsystems, as a leading provider

of hardware platforms and software solutions, has led to an impressive number of joint

customer success stories. Regular benchmarks to test the performance of BSCS and

on Sun Solaris have proven that high-volume billing requirements of global telecom

service providers can be met without any limitation. All LHS products run on the latest

Sun Solaris platforms or use Sun's Java technology, for example the Customer

Management Server (CMS), LHS' API to the customer-related BSCS functionality,

uses Java as the programming language. LHS is a registered partner in the Sun

Partner Advantage Program.

The LHS and

Sun Partnership

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BSCS iX

BSCS iX provides unmatched features, functionality, and flexibility that fulfill the

requirements of the most demanding operating environments. BSCS iX is suitable for

wireless, wireline, or multi-service communications providers in all geographies. It

brings key benefits to existing customers operating earlier versions of BSCS or

operators considering replacing their legacy systems. It is also ideally suited for start-

up 2G, 3G, or wireline businesses. BSCS iX is the perfect fit for communications

providers pursuing a prepaid, postpaid, or a multi-service convergence strategy,

allowing major cost reductions.

BSCS iX Advances

BSCS is the customer care and billing system of choice for communications providers

with high requirements in the areas of scalability, performance, openness, promotions

and marketing, support for corporate customers and business partners. Since 1993,

when BSCS was launched, development of the solution has been guided by the

following parameters:

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Scalability – BSCS iX is not only proven in benchmark testing to support 40 million

subscribers, but it is also designed to support future volume increases and service

level enhancements for small and medium-sized operators.

Service continuity – The SDPX option allows the deployment of BSCS iX in a

high-availability configuration. Therefore, it secures the use of BSCS iX for all

transactions requiring reliability and security. With SDPX, BSCS iX supports a

service availability of up to 99.999 percent, which corresponds to a service

interruption of no more than 5 minutes in a year.

Adaptability and flexibility – BSCS iX provides APIs based on the CORBA 2

standard, which enables the existing architecture to expand to accommodate

future requirements and add-ons.

Innovation – BSCS iX continues the innovative path in the product's development.

The iX architecture embraces Web technology and enables low-risk, stepwise

migrations through its modular approach. Some of the new features in BSCS iX

are:

real-time billing

multicompany support

Web customer care application

best option plans

Web POS center

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flexible invoicing

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enhanced balance management

Key Features

BSCS iX Overview

The key features of BSCS iX are:

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Packaged architecture – BSCS iX has evolved to a component-based

architecture. Currently iX Rating and iX Billing are a part of BSCS iX, as well as

stand-alone products.

Support for major telecommunications technologies and standards – BSCS iX

currently supports telecommunications standards, including GSM, CDMA, TDMA,

D-AMPS, and ISDN; UMTS/3GSM standards and features such as ‘User Profiles’;

wireline technology, including PSTN/ISDN and data such as X.25 and WLAN; and

the latest roaming standards for both GSM and non-GSM networks, including both

TAP and CIBER.

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Prepaid/postpaid convergence – Prepaid and postpaid payment methods are both

supported by BSCS iX. In addition, by having a single product and service

creation environment with a centralized customer database, BSCS iX ensures that

operators not only have a central point of management and control, but are also

able to minimize platform and operational costs.

Real-time rating and balance management – BSCS iX provides a single unified

rating, cost control, and balance management engine, which supports the rating of

events in real time, post-event, and offline charging modes simultaneously.

Flexible, configurable rating – BSCS iX provides operators with the functionality to

support the latest network service and operating business models using rules-

based modules.

End-to-end content charging – BSCS iX delivers end-to-end content charging,

from network and application interaction to billing and partner settlement. The

flexibility of Product Center in configuring innovative content products and services

results in faster market responsiveness. BSCS iX offers online authorization and

charging of content transactions for prepaid and postpaid users, as well as

support for IPDR 2.5. Additionally, BSCS iX supports various business models for

the complete settlement and reconciliation of content-based transactions with

other operators and content providers, using TAP.

Flexible billing – Configurable taxes, multicurrency support, complex promotion

management, configurable rounding algorithms, and open interfaces to eBilling

solutions – all ensure BSCS iX supports the billing requirements of today's

telecommunications operators.

Support for flexible operator business models – BSCS iX supports various

business models depending on the operator’s or provider’s requirements,

including network operators selling directly to the end user; network operators

selling to end users via a service provider; service providers selling directly to the

end user; service providers who administer their customers via network operators.

Options available for additional features – With an additional license, you can add

more features. These include the following:

Service Data Point eXtension (SDPX) enhances the excellent features of

BSCS iX allowing a highly available Service Data Point deployment. The SDP

deployment makes it possible to support the real-time prepaid business over

Intelligent Networks.

Self-care Center (SX) provides a Web interface for customers to perform self-

care tasks. The SX features support convergent customer self-care for

prepaid and postpaid customer accounts as well as for fixed and mobile

accounts.

Smart PX provides for fast and easy creation of standard rate plans and

modification of prices of existing rate plans.

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Network Provisioning eXtension (NPX) is a vendor-specific provisioning

application that forwards requests to network elements.

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The Best Option Plan (BOP) feature means that in addition to the contracted

rate plan, several alternative rate plans or alternative service packages are

made available to a customer. Tests were also performed for record rating

while using the best option plan feature.

Key Business Benefits

Some of the key business benefits of BSCS iX are:

Reduces risk and supports revenue assurance – BSCS is a proven system in use

by more than 130 telecommunications service providers across a wide range of

geographies, network technology types, and business models around the world.

Supports profitable innovation and boosts average revenue per user (ARPU) –

BSCS iX is geared to provide flexibility and innovation, with sophisticated tools to

design business scenarios and co-opt business partners, a product center for

integrated marketing and product development, and rules-based rating and

balance management.

Builds customer loyalty – BSCS iX provides several features to build loyalty

programs to attract and retain customers, including free units, bonus programs,

targeted discounts, etc. These programs can be applied during rating and/or

billing, and are available to large corporate entities.

Provides high performance at low cost of ownership – BSCS iX is available at a

low overall cost of ownership. First, support for higher performance, more reliable

hardware, along with reduced reliance on commercial third-party tools,

dramatically reduce costs. In addition, future versions of BSCS are provided free

of license costs to existing customers under maintenance. And migrations can be

performed in a single step to further reduce costs.

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The Sun Fire E25K Server

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The Sun Fire E25K Server

When you need the power of 72 processors crunching 144 simultaneous threads,

Sun's flagship high-end Sun Fire E25K server can take on just about any high-volume,

mainframe class, mission critical computing challenge with headroom left over.

New UltraSPARC IV+:

Up to 5x the performance of UltraSPARC III servers and

nearly double that of UltraSPARC IV servers.

At a Glance

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Hot swap and mix & match UltraSPARC IV+, IV, and III processors in the same

system.

Scales up to 72 processors

with 144 threads and up to 1152 GB memory for

heavily threaded commercial applications.

Solaris OS

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application compatibility guarantee

, delivers seamless

processor migration.

Provision up to 18 Uniboards – the same ones used on Sun Fire E4900-E25K

servers on the fly.

The Sun Fire

Capacity on Demand

program offers "pay as you grow" computing

options.

Industry-leading virtualization, plus fault isolated Dynamic System Domains,

Solaris Containers, and Predictive Self-Healing deliver a scalable consolidation

platform.

The Sun Fire E25K provides the following

high performance

features:

Performance

Increased performance:

Sun's new UltraSPARC IV+ 64-bit Chip Multithreading

(CMT) processor has significantly enhanced cores, 2-MB on-chip L2 cache, and a new

32-MB L3 cache using the latest 90nm process technology. It delivers up to 5 times

higher performance than UltraSPARC III servers, and nearly double performance

increase over previous generation UltraSPARC IV servers in the same footprint. The

UltraSPARC IV+ system supports in-chassis upgrades for previous generation Sun

Fire E25K and 15K servers, with no increase in power and cooling requirements.

Exceptional scalability:

The new Sun Fire E25K server extends Sun's tradition of

reducing risk and enabling customers to comfortably scale capacity. As the lead

member of the industry's most scalable server line, it scales up to 72 processors,

executing up to 144 simultaneous compute threads, and supports up to 1152 GB of

memory to provide maximum headroom for data-intensive applications.

Run demanding applications:

The new Sun Fire E25K server delivers significant

productivity gains to address ever-demanding data and business logic workloads such

as business processing, databases, data warehouses, IT infrastructure, application

serving, and compute-intensive scientific engineering applications.

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