Sun Starfire(TM) Server and Sun StorEdge(TM)
Arrays Set Performance Record For Amdocs
Ensemble Platform for Telecommunications Industry
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW - news) today reported industry leading performance running the Amdocs (NYSE: DOX - news) Ensemble customer care, billing and ordering platform for the telecommunications industry.
In this benchmark, Amdocs' Ensemble platform, running on a Sun Enterprise(TM) 10000 server (also known as Starfire(TM)) and Sun StorEdge(TM) A5200 arrays, handled transaction volumes and customer information for 40 million subscribers -- demonstrating the ability to handle workloads indicative of telecommunications carriers.
The performance results demonstrate the scalability of the Amdocs Ensemble platform deployed on Sun systems.
Amdocs' Ensemble system processed 116,000,000 call detail records (CDRs) per hour using a single Starfire server. The
system also achieved sustained bill preparation rates of 1,240,000 per hour on a single server.
The performance test used an environment reflecting typical production conditions for a large telecommunications carrier, based on a representative mix of corporate, business and residential customers.
Starfire server delivered 59x speedup on 64 CPUs, demonstrating linear scalability and proving the system's overall capacity and ability to accommodate very large databases and mixed workloads on a single system. The system, running Amdocs Ensemble, Oracle 8i (version 8.1 database) and Solaris(TM) 7 Operating Environment, was configured with 64 UltraSPARC(TM) II 400 MHZ CPUs, each including 8 MB external cache and 64 GB of memory combined with 9 Sun StorEdge A5200 modular disk arrays, totalling 2 TB of storage. The tests were conducted at Sun's Large Scale
Computing Center in Beaverton, Oregon.
``Our recently signed reseller agreement and the performance results, solidify Sun and Amdocs commitment to providing
leading solutions for the telecom industry,' said Shahin Khan, director of marketing for Sun's Data Center and High
Performance Computing Product group. ``The Starfire server continues to demonstrate its ability to run at over 99 percentsystem utilization, proving that the system is unsurpassed in both performance and capacity for these types of very large and mixed application workloads.'
``The impressive results of this benchmark demonstrate the scalability and performance of our customer care and billing
system, making our Ensemble system the clear choice to meet the high volume requirements of telecom leaders,' said
Norman Rafalowitz, Amdocs Senior Vice President of International Marketing. ``We are pleased to be working with Sun,offering our customers such highly reliable and proven end-to-end solutions that can address the necessary high
performance and large capacity elements required for their mission-critical production environments.'
In related news, Sun and Amdocs recently announced a global reseller agreement. Amdocs will now resell and support
the Sun platform. Amdocs systems will be deployed in the Sun environment using the highly-scalable Sun Enterprise and
carrier-grade servers, running the Solaris operating environment. These systems provide current and future
telecommunications customers with an open standards-based environment that scales seamlessly as businesses expand.
About Sun Microsystems Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, ``The Network Is The Computer,' has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc., to its position as a leading provider of high-quality hardware, software, and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets
and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $11.5 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at sun.com .
About Amdocs
Amdocs is a leading provider of product-driven customer care, billing and order management solutions to premier
telecommunications companies worldwide. Amdocs has an unparalleled success record in project delivery of its
mission-critical products. Human resources of more than 4,300 information systems professionals are exclusively
dedicated to the telecommunications industry. Amdocs has an installed base of more than 300 successful projects in more
than 70 major telecommunications companies throughout the world. For more information visit our Web site at
www.amdocs.com.
About Ensemble
Ensemble is Amdocs' platform for customer care, billing and order management solutions in voice and data environments.
Ensemble supports convergent multi-service operations, including local, cellular, data, paging, long distance, international,cable, Internet, and IP services. Ensemble includes advanced capabilities such as a flexible customer hierarchy facility anda multi-service rating engine. The system utilizes a scalable, multi-tier, client-server UNIX platform and has been proven tosupport the high-volume performance requirements of leading carriers.
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