"IBM’s powerful BladeCenter platform together with the MBC performance test tool, sets a new standard for testing reliability, efficiency, and powerfulness of IMS /NGN telecom products. The IBM BladeCenter platform protects the investment in MBC for the whole IMS/NGN product life cycle and beyond. The BladeCenter platform also enables integration of MBC in production environment for monitoring."
— Michael Mild, CEO, SoftWell Performance AB
With the ever increasing adoption of converged IP-based, next generation network (NGN), telecommunications service providers and network equipment providers are seeking new tools to perform integration validation and performance testing of these new IP-based applications.
Many of these new services are being developed and deployed on an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture. The move to IMS will be directly related to service provider and end-user experienced performance. Typical IMS availability requirements are “five nines” or 99.999% availability.
Softwell Performance developed Mobile Benchmark Center (MBC) as a high-end performance measurement tool specifically designed for IMS environments. MBC has been developed in close cooperation with leading IMS vendors. With MBC, performance measurements can be applied on all signaling protocols of IMS concurrently.
Softwell Performance delivers IMS performance testing to help telecommunication service providers and network equipment providers deliver high-availabilityapplications and services on next-generation networks.
SIP performance throughput
Recent tests on an IBM BladeCenter using HS21 blades with two Intel Xeon Quad Core CPUs, MBC delivered a constant load of 8000 SIP Calls (setup and tear-down) per second during 12 hours, from 800,000 concurrently simulated users, per HS21 blade.
With MBC’s powerful software and IBM’s BladeCenter systems, advanced performance test beds can be deployed at lower initial costs and expanded as new needs arise.
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Softwell Performance and IBM: a powerful combination
The combination of Softwell Performance and the IBM BladeCenter family delivers the performance, reliability and affordability demanded by mission critical telecommunications applications. The IBM BladeCenter is the ideal platform for the deployment of these services providing a single platform to help reduce operating costs and complexity.
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