Benchmark Testing Results: Redknee TCB and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 i Benchmark Testing Results: Redknee TCB Running on SQL Server 2012 Running Redknee TCB 9.1 on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Intel Xeon processor-based NEC servers with X-IO storage provides unmatched performance and scalability Technical White Paper Published: April 2012 Applies to: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Abstract The telecommunications industry has undergone tremendous changes in recent years. As the services they provide converge and as industry churn puts revenue at risk, telecommunications service providers are finding that they must transform their operations and their business models so that they can deliver new services to market faster and at a lower cost. Microsoft and Redknee work together on solutions that make it possible for these service providers to reduce the time to market for new offerings, improve the subscriber experience, and monetize these value-added services. As part of their strategic alliance, Redknee and Microsoft conducted a comprehensive performance and scalability benchmark of Redknee Turnkey Converged Billing (TCB) running on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The benchmark used X-IO Hyper ISE storage and an NEC Express 5800/A1080a scalable 8x10-core server with Intel Xeon processor E7-8870 processors. The tests, designed to simulate the requirements of a typical tier-1 communications service provider, were conducted at the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center in Redmond, Washington, in November and December of 2011. The results were impressive. The 250-million subscriber test exceeded the performance objectives for both invoicing and mediation, generating 26 million invoices within a six-hour billing cycle, and mediating 4.9 billion call detail records (CDRs) within 12 hours, with near-linear scalability as the number of subscribers increased. At peak performance, the system processed an average throughput of 1,250 invoices per second and mediated an average of 113,402 CDRs per second. These benchmark results show that Redknee and Microsoft―with partners NEC, Intel, and X-IO―provide a solution that can support the volumes of the largest communications service providers. Additionally, the results were achieved at substantially lower costs for processing, storage, and licensing than competing database systems.
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Benchmark Testing Results: Redknee TCB and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 i
Benchmark Testing Results:
Redknee TCB Running on SQL Server 2012
Running Redknee TCB 9.1 on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Intel Xeon processor-based NEC servers
with X-IO storage provides unmatched performance and scalability
Technical White Paper Published: April 2012 Applies to: Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Abstract The telecommunications industry has undergone tremendous changes in recent years. As the services they
provide converge and as industry churn puts revenue at risk, telecommunications service providers are
finding that they must transform their operations and their business models so that they can deliver new
services to market faster and at a lower cost. Microsoft and Redknee work together on solutions that make it
possible for these service providers to reduce the time to market for new offerings, improve the subscriber
experience, and monetize these value-added services.
As part of their strategic alliance, Redknee and Microsoft conducted a comprehensive performance and
scalability benchmark of Redknee Turnkey Converged Billing (TCB) running on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and
Windows Server 2008 R2. The benchmark used X-IO Hyper ISE storage and an NEC Express 5800/A1080a
scalable 8x10-core server with Intel Xeon processor E7-8870 processors. The tests, designed to simulate the
requirements of a typical tier-1 communications service provider, were conducted at the Microsoft Partner
Solutions Center in Redmond, Washington, in November and December of 2011.
The results were impressive. The 250-million subscriber test exceeded the performance objectives for both
invoicing and mediation, generating 26 million invoices within a six-hour billing cycle, and mediating 4.9
billion call detail records (CDRs) within 12 hours, with near-linear scalability as the number of subscribers
increased. At peak performance, the system processed an average throughput of 1,250 invoices per second
and mediated an average of 113,402 CDRs per second. These benchmark results show that Redknee and
Microsoft―with partners NEC, Intel, and X-IO―provide a solution that can support the volumes of the largest
communications service providers. Additionally, the results were achieved at substantially lower costs for
processing, storage, and licensing than competing database systems.
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Benefits of SQL Server 2012 .............................................................................................................................. 2
The Redknee and Microsoft Alliance ................................................................................................................ 3
Benefits of Servers Based on Intel Xeon Processors ......................................................................................... 4
Benefits of X-IO Storage ................................................................................................................................... 5
Test Workloads ................................................................................................................................................. 5
Additional Information ................................................................................................................................ 13
About Redknee ............................................................................................................................................... 13
About Microsoft.............................................................................................................................................. 13
About Intel ...................................................................................................................................................... 13
About X-IO ...................................................................................................................................................... 13
About NEC Corporation of America ................................................................................................................ 13
Benchmark Testing Results: Redknee TCB and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 1
Introduction The telecommunications industry has undergone tremendous changes in recent years.
Communications service providers are transforming their operations and their business models to
deliver new services to market faster and at a lower cost. Microsoft and Redknee work together on
solutions to meet these business needs, making it possible for service providers to reduce the time
to market for new offerings, improve the subscriber experience, and monetize these value-added
services.
In November and December 2011, Redknee, Microsoft, Intel, and X-IO worked together to measure
the pre-paid and post-paid transaction throughput capacity and scalability of Redknee Turnkey
Converged Billing (TCB) running on Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Intel Xeon processor–based servers,
and X-IO Hyper ISE storage solutions. The test data was based on that of typical Redknee customers
to simulate real-world scenarios.
The test results showed that the system could scale to 250 million subscribers, generating 26 million
invoices within a six-hour billing cycle and mediating 4.9 billion call detail records within 12 hours.
The system showed near-linear scalability as the number of application servers and the number of
subscribers increased. At peak performance, the system processed an average throughput of 1,249
invoices per second and 113,402 CDRs per second.
This white paper begins with an introduction to Redknee TCB, Intel Xeon processors, and X-IO Hyper
ISE storage solutions. The paper also provides an overview of Microsoft SQL Server 2012, proven
data management software for enterprise TCB deployments and highlights the many advantages
SQL Server 2012 brings to TCB, including manageability, scalability, reliability, and affordability.
The white paper then presents benchmark test data that confirms that SQL Server 2012 running on
NEC servers based on Intel Xeon processors and X-IO Hyper ISE storage scales to meet the needs of
even the world’s largest tier-1 communications service providers. Enterprise customers can be
confident in the choice of SQL Server 2012 as data management software for TCB.
Introducing Redknee TCB
With new customer demands, new service offerings, and increasing competition, operators need
agile billing solutions to match their changing business strategies. Redknee TCB is an end-to-end
billing and customer-care solution that delivers centralized business intelligence, personalized
subscriber experience, and a full suite of billing capabilities, making it possible for operators around
the globe to differentiate themselves from the competition and maximize their profitability.
Redknee TCB provides the following benefits:
True convergence
Redknee’s TCB supports pre-paid, post-paid, and hybrid subscribers, in addition to any type
of access technology, including wireless and wireline, cable, broadband, and satellite. This
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solution helps to reduce operating and capital expenses by letting operators consolidate
their billing “silos” onto a single convergent solution and quickly roll out new services.
A centralized solution
TCB centralizes valuable subscriber data onto one enhanced database that is accessed
through a comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) tool. This
centralization provides operators with visibility into customer behavior and enables them to
quickly solve customer care issues, offer flexible pricing and subscriber-centric services,
such as cross-service bundles and loyalty points, and easily identify up-sell opportunities
and deliver real-time promotions.
Enhanced promotions and partner management
Redknee’s converged solution provides operators with a framework that uses advanced
interactive reporting and subscriber data management to help operators reach out to their
customers individually, through targeted promotions and real-time initiatives that are
relevant to individual subscriber's needs.
For more information about Redknee TCB, visit www.redknee.com.
Benefits of SQL Server 2012
The underlying core of a billing system is the data collected; this data is maintained in an enterprise
database such as SQL Server 2012.
SQL Server 2012 is a comprehensive, integrated, and enterprise-ready data-management software
solution. It provides a reliable, cost-effective, low-maintenance database framework for Redknee
TCB that can support the largest and most process-intensive deployments. Hundreds of enterprises
are currently running 10 terabyte (TB) and larger transactional databases on SQL Server.
Running Redknee TCB on SQL Server 2012 provides customers with many benefits:
Six nines (99.9999 percent) uptime availability
Redknee customers can protect their mission-critical databases from downtime and data
loss with six nines uptime availability.1,2
Faster to deploy
On average, SQL Server database administrators (DBAs) can install and configure new
database servers in one and a half hours, while the largest competitor’s DBAs can take six