3 UK Taps Kabira for Network Application Integration

Kabira Technologies Inc. announced that Hutchison 3G UK Limited (3 UK) is using the Kabira Transaction Platform (KTP) software to manage increasing demand for its messaging services, including MMS, SMS and e-mail for U.K. customers.

3 UK needed a new Network Application Integration (NAI) technology that could act at the core of its service layer to handle all messaging events and interface among its messaging networks, billing system and customer profile server.

The KTP-based services layer can process more than 4,000 transactions a second and enables 3 UK to process messaging transactions while at the same time performing real-time charging for each messaging transaction.

The result, according to a press statement, is that 3 UK is better able to handle growth in messaging traffic volumes, launch new messaging services faster and more effectively control costs.

“The NAI program we run with Kabira is delivering on the strategic objective of providing a real-time transaction processing engine within our services layer to compliment our existing technologies,” said 3 UK CTO Graham Baxter. “The Kabira KTP platform provides a flexible development environment coupled with a high-performance execution engine running on commodity hardware, all helping to keep our costs down and deliver to our business needs.”