Service Delivery Platforms

While SDP’s can take many forms such as the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, Avaya’s Secure Services Delivery Platform as well as a number of packaged offerings from Accenture, Italtel, and Capgemini. They all share one thing in common - the need for a flexible, robust data management environment.

Service Delivery Platforms provide an efficient environment for developing new services for customers. The SDP interfaces to the telecommunication network using protocols such as:

• SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), and
• SIMPLE (SIP for Instant Messaging with Presence Leveraging Extensions) for IP based Next Generation Networks (NGN’s), and
• Parlay for interface into legacy systems.

The key differentiator of an SDP is its ability to integrate new communications service offerings across multiple media and to bring these new offering to market as quickly as possible.

The ability of a Service Delivery Platform to interact with many service types places new demands on the underlying database. Much higher update rates driven by presence and location based service is to be expected coupled with much larger database sizes driven by complex, combined services. MySQL Cluster CGE is well suited to the demanding Service Delivery Platform database environment.

Deploying a carrier grade SDP (Service Delivery Platform) as part of a greater IMS platform, enables service providers to offer new revenue generating, real-time services faster than using their legacy infrastructure. The types of services delivered using an SDP include multimedia messaging, mobile content delivery, mobile gaming and more.

The challenge for service providers and equipment manufacturers is to implement a highly scalable platform for delivering services to an exponentially growing number of subscribers. MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition is a high availability database solution designed to help meet these requirements. MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition helps telecom organizations deploying SDPs to:

Ensure high Quality-of-Service That Users Expect

In the highly competitive telecom market, service providers are being forced to differentiate themselves by the quality of service they provide. MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition provides a fault-tolerant architecture with automated fail-over detection and resolution so that telecom equipment providers and service providers can deliver applications with five nines (99.999%) availability.

Deliver a massively scalable SDP to Handle the Load of 100 Million Subscribers

Near linear scalability can be achieved using MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition’s shared nothing, distributed database architecture. Data and indexes are automatically partitioned across multiple data nodes and with user-defined partitioning data can be efficiently accessed on a single data node without the need for intercommunication within the cluster to satisfy a result set or look up.

Provide real-time services to Millions of End-user Devices

Delivering real-time services like messaging and mobile gaming is a key requirement for service providers. Telecoms must find ways to maximize throughput, as well as minimize operator’s message latency to deliver on the promise of these. MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition was designed as an in-memory database to handle the 10,000’s of requests per second typical in telecom applications. MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition provides the NDB native data access API which gives applications the fastest and lowest-level data access available. This typically results in 5 to 10 millisecond latency for reads and writes.