Upgrade Telecom Billing Systems with Intel® Xeon® Processors
Executive Summary
In the second half of 2011, Intel and AsiaInfo Linkage helped Yunnan Telecom perform verification testing to determine the feasibility of deploying Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers in a production environment for the provincial telecommunications billing system.
The test had two parts: the billing applications and billing database. Test results proved that the Intel Xeon processor-based servers both met the provincial telecommunications billing system’s requirements and outperformed the legacy RISC platform. After the test was completed, both the billing application and the billing database based on the Intel Xeon processor had been officially put into the production environment.
For the tests described in this paper, the Intel platform-based servers took over about 30 percent of the RISC-based production database’s workload. Analyzing performance data through a full billing cycle showed that by offloading just that portion of the workload, the server’s CPU and memory usage remained low, with system effectiveness increasing by about three to five times and total cost of ownership (TCO) dropping by nearly 60 percent over the RISC-based system.
This paper explains how using this migration approach and the latest technologies from Intel can make today’s telecommunications business and operation support systems (B/OSS) cost effective while providing energy efficiency, stability, and flexibility in the way the billing systems work. Using the latest technologies can help telecommunications companies become more competitive.
Read the full Upgrade Telecom Billing Systems with Intel® Xeon® Processors white paper here: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/performance/performance-xeon-yunnan-telecom-paper.html
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Upgrade Telecom Billing Systems with Intel® Xeon® Processors
Executive Summary
In the second half of 2011, Intel and AsiaInfo Linkage helped Yunnan Telecom perform verification testing to determine the feasibility of deploying Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers in a production environment for the provincial telecommunications billing system.
The test had two parts: the billing applications and billing database. Test results proved that the Intel Xeon processor-based servers both met the provincial telecommunications billing system’s requirements and outperformed the legacy RISC platform. After the test was completed, both the billing application and the billing database based on the Intel Xeon processor had been officially put into the production environment.
For the tests described in this paper, the Intel platform-based servers took over about 30 percent of the RISC-based production database’s workload. Analyzing performance data through a full billing cycle showed that by offloading just that portion of the workload, the server’s CPU and memory usage remained low, with system effectiveness increasing by about three to five times and total cost of ownership (TCO) dropping by nearly 60 percent over the RISC-based system.
This paper explains how using this migration approach and the latest technologies from Intel can make today’s telecommunications business and operation support systems (B/OSS) cost effective while providing energy efficiency, stability, and flexibility in the way the billing systems work. Using the latest technologies can help telecommunications companies become more competitive.
Read the full Upgrade Telecom Billing Systems with Intel® Xeon® Processors white paper here: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/performance/performance-xeon-yunnan-telecom-paper.html
