Amdocs demonstrates fully virtualized real-time charging

BANGALORE, INDIA: Amdocs, a provider of customer experience systems and services, announced the performance results of fully 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. The results show that service provider mission-critical, real-time charging processes, supporting millions of subscribers, can run in virtualized environments.

Conducted at Amdocs' labs, the benchmark ran Amdocs Convergent Charging using VMware vSphere2, VMware's 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 virtualizationas a way to help service providers decouple software workloads from hardwareto 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 certifiedour CES 9 product portfolio on VMware vSphere and introduced the industry's first, virtualizednetwork control, and now, real-time charging systems."

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."