Highdeal, HP Test Online Charging Platform

Highdeal and HP said their products have tested to show performance gains in online charging.

The companies said In tests conducted at the HP Solutions Center in Richardson, Texas, the combined Highdeal-HP solution delivered four times higher throughput and half the latency of other published benchmarks. They used the Highdeal Transactive, HP Internet Usage Manager (IUM), and HP ProLiant servers running Linux.

The Highdeal and HP systems performed charging control, rating and balance update operations with end-to-end transaction rates of 24,000 transactions per second (TPS) for session-based charging with an average latency of 23 milliseconds per transaction, the companies said. In an event charging scenario for messaging services, throughput climbed to 49,000 TPS with average latency of 8 milliseconds, the companies said.

The benchmark used real-world pricing and charging scenarios with a customer base of 20 million subscribers. Each modeled subscriber used next generation voice and data communications services priced using sophisticated bundles of time and zone-based tariffs, free-units and cross-product bonuses. Charging was done among each subscriber's prepaid, postpaid and credit-limited accounts.

Highdeal Transactive provided the pricing, rating and online balance management. HP IUM Charging Manager contributed the real-time session management, charging control and quota management using the Diameter Credit Control Application (CCA) protocol for the service scenarios. Both applications ran on HP ProLiant servers.