Amdocs, the leading provider of customer experience systems and services, demonstrated and announced performance results of its convergent charging system -industry's first virtualized, real-time charging. Tested in a production-like environment, the solution demonstrated carrier-grade charging performance, with a five millisecond latency and sub-second failover (switching between servers) to ensure business continuity.
Conducted at Amdocs' labs, the benchmark ran Amdocs Convergent Charging using VMware vSphere®2, VMware's market-leading virtualization solution. Amdocs and VMware worked together to develop the testing methodology and to deliver carrier-grade, virtualized real-time charging.
"The industry is evolving towards network function virtualization as a way to help service providers decouple software workloads from hardware to considerably improve cost-efficiencies and business agility," said Rebecca Prudhomme, vice president of product and solutions marketing at Amdocs. "To ensure our customers can benefit from the latest advancements in this area, we certified our product portfolio on VMware vSphere® and introduced the industry's first, virtualized network control and now, real-time charging systems."
"We are proud to be involved in cutting-edge, communications industry advancements in carrier-grade virtualization and cloud-computing with key players like Amdocs," said Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. "Virtualized BSS capabilities that can scale up and down ‘on-demand' can help service providers dramatically reduce hardware requirements."
