Zarada Revenue Management System achieves industry leading performance & scalability on Sun Platform

Dec. 22, 2009 - PRLog -- Performance and scalability tests of Zarada revenue management on Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers at Sun Engineering Labs in Bangalore demonstrate excellent price-performance and throughput - sustained event processing rate of 15886 events per second on production like setup with 20 Million subscribers on a single server with 8 quad-core SPARC64 VI processors, partitioned into two identical domains for applications and database. Tests also indicate near-linear scalability of Zarada revenue management from 10 Million to 20 Million subscribers.

Zarada revenue management products provide a comprehensive and easy-to-use environment that encompasses whole range of charging and billing functions including usage event mediation, guiding, rating, billing, invoicing and balance management. Zarada enables Communication Service Providers to accurately charge and bill varied usage events and ensures smooth revenue flow by supplying a flexible and convergent revenue management platform.

Tests involved modeling a true production-like charging environment with rate plans representative of plans used by Communication Service Providers. Top-notch performance of Sun StorageTek 6140 along with highly scalable and efficient Zarada revenue management system and Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers produce a perfect blend of simplicity, efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

“The combination of Zarada Revenue Management System, highly reliable Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers, massively scalable Sun Storage System and GlassFish Enterprise Server enables Communication Service Providers to consolidate hardware platforms to reduce operational complexity and to plan for growth in a simple and cost-effective way”, says Ramesh Mamgain – Director & Head – Telecom , Systems Business, Sun Microsystems India.

“Unprecedented throughput, tier-1 grade scalability and high flexibility of Zarada Revenue Management System empower Communication Service Providers to create an easy-to-use environment to automate majority of their revenue management activities and to ensure smooth revenue flow. In combination with Sun Enterprise servers, GlassFish web container and Sun storage system, it provides an optimal price-performance platform”, says Chiranjib Bhandary, CEO, Zinnia Systems. “Our endeavor to create a futuristic Revenue Management Platform is strengthened by our relationship with Sun Microsystems”.

For more information about Zinnia Systems, please visit www.zinniasystems.com and www.sun.com for more information about Sun Microsystems.

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About Zinnia Systems: Zinnia Systems empower Communication Service Providers to focus on building long-term profitable relationships with customers by automating majority of their business processes and by progressively transforming their customer and revenue management infrastructure into a high-performance, scalable and robust platform. Zarada, integrated product suite from Zinnia Systems, is designed specifically to provide an end-to-end and easy-to-use solution for quickly launching Converged Services and WiMAX Services in growth markets. With flexible automation of customer interactions, real-time analytics on customer behaviour and high-performance charging system, Zarada enables Communication Service Providers to drive profitable growth through operational excellence in customer facing processes as well as core revenue management functions.