The proliferation of startup companies says a lot about the health of and confidence in the telecom industry. The scale to which Israeli startup Xeround has built its high-performance database systems says a lot about the number of transactions that will take place on next generation networks.
Xeround announced the general availability of its Xeround Sound distributed data management system this week and the result is a much broader vision than the company originally planned.
Launched with the intent to build databases for supporting core IMS functions such as the Home Location Register or Home Subscriber Server, Xeround found a new niche along the way.
“It is less about supporting specific elements in the network and more about being able to work in an overall heterogeneous ecosystem and support a variety of elements,” said Charlotte Yarkoni, CEO of Xeround.
Xeround Sound is a distributed data management system specifically tuned for the subscriber-centric and real-time transactions of next-generation networks and business support systems (BSS). Its distributed architecture enables a single, non-partitioned database image with zero partition management required, and is built to deliver massive and linear scalability, multisite support with global data distribution and virtualization, continuous availability, and guaranteed data integrity. It also features native support for both Structured Query Language (SQL) and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) interfaces.
“A lot of database solutions work natively with one of those protocols in their stack, but have some kind of wrapper or mechanism that allows then to accommodate for the other. We are one of the few, if not the only one, who can support both natively,” Yarkoni said. ‘We are not limited to one protocol over the other.”
To validate its real-time performance and online scaling abilities, Xeround cited findings from a Nokia Network Database Benchmark (NDB) report that said the product successfully demonstrated scaling online from 10 million subscribers on four servers, to 100 million subscribers on 40 servers, with no downtime, performance degradation or transaction latency. The test supported an average client application latency of 2.17 milliseconds per transaction and confirmed the ability to grow capacity as needed with no service interruption.
Xeround Sound reached 114,556 qualified transactions per second using a 320 core topology (40 servers of dual quad-core processors). Each data element was replicated three times to achieve more than 6-nines (99.9999 percent) of continuous availability. It achieved this scale while running on a distributed heterogeneous cluster of commodity servers and switches, which, in the real world, translate to a low cost per transaction and cost per subscriber.
