Billing Software Tested for its Capacity Limit

The billing solutions group, MIND CTI has announced the results of tests it has run on its PrePay software when run on Sun servers. The benchmark demonstrates the capability to handle 25 million AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) events per hour using an active prepaid subscriber base of 30 million.

The benchmark scenarios included tests that simulated prepaid and post-paid business activities. The prepaid tests included real-time Authentication, Authorization, Accounting (AAA) and rating of Voice over IP (VoIP) and Internet access sessions. The post-paid activities included itemized invoice generation and processing, rating and capturing of Call Detail Records (CDRs).

The benchmark was held at Sun Microsystems' Benchmark Center in Paris in February 2002. Two database server configurations were tested; a high-end configuration that comprised of a Sun Enterprise 10000 with 64 CPUs, and a medium configuration including a SunFire 4800 with 12 CPUs. On both configurations Solaris 8 and Oracle 8.1.7.2 were installed. The benchmark demonstrated the linear scalability of MIND-iPhonEX's real-time architecture, with performance increase corresponding to the increase of processing power (addition of CPU and memory).

"This benchmark demonstrates our continuous commitment to our customers to develop high performance and scalable solutions," said Izik Ben-Zaken, MIND's Vice President of Research & Development. "Our carrier-grade solution is playing a critical role in new technologies such as 3G prepaid mobile. The ability to provide a real-time scalable billing solution for multiple and simultaneous IP services is vital in all new deployments."'"

Posted to the site on 8th May 2002