Service providers are faced with increasing pressure to modernize their business support systems (BSS) and billing platforms. The explosion of 5G has introduced a level of complexity that legacy architectures simply cannot handle, struggling with millions of concurrent sessions, dynamic pricing models, and a constant influx of new digital services. These outdated systems lack the speed, accuracy, and scalability essential for real-time monetization, creating a critical bottleneck for innovation and revenue growth.
To overcome these challenges, a new architectural approach is required. The combination of Volt Active Data on Red Hat OpenShift provides the definitive solution. By uniting Volt’s powerful real-time decisioning engine with the robust, cloud-native orchestration of Red Hat OpenShift, service providers are empowered to build the next generation of billing and mediation systems. This synergy creates a platform that is not only more agile but also inherently resilient, ready to address future demands head-on.
This powerful pairing delivers performance without compromise. Service providers can now execute charging, mediation, and policy decisions in under 10 milliseconds, even at massive scale. Running on Red Hat OpenShift provides the cloud-native flexibility to scale elastically across any hybrid or multi-cloud environment.
Crucially, unlike legacy systems that rely on eventual consistency, this modern stack guarantees full ACID transactional accuracy — meaning every decision is Atomic (all-or-nothing), Consistent (always valid), Isolated (not affected by other operations), and Durable (can’t be lost once committed). Volt enforces these guarantees without introducing the latency that cripples real-time operations, ensuring telcos get both speed and correctness.
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Why Volt on Red Hat OpenShift for BSS & Billing
- No compromise performance: Volt delivers sub-10 millisecond decisions for charging, mediation, and policy enforcement, even at massive scale.
- Cloud-native flexibility: Running on Red Hat OpenShift helps ensure deployments can scale elastically across hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
- Accuracy & consistency: Unlike legacy caching or eventually consistent systems, Volt supports ACID transactions without adding latency.
- Future-ready modernization: Volt on Red Hat OpenShift helps service providers transition from monolithic BSS systems to modern, microservices-based billing platforms.
- Cost efficiency: Event-based pricing means telcos align costs directly to processed transactions, not idle capacity.
As Mark Longwell, Director, Telco and Edge Alliances for Red Hat, points out, “Volt Active Data running on top of Red Hat OpenShift enables service providers to unlock the full value of their data and applications by making it possible to have scale without compromising on speed, accuracy, or consistency.”
This balance is critical for service providers modernizing their BSS and 5G platforms, helping to ensure they can handle the surge of new services without breaking performance or operational integrity.
Service Provider Use Cases
- 5G Charging & Monetization: Real-time rating and charging decisions at scale, delivering accurate billing for both consumers and enterprise services.
- Mediation & Policy Enforcement: Streamline BSS operations by mediating billions of events per day with enhanced consistency.
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) & Quality of Service (QoS) Management: Enforce QoS agreements in real time, detecting and responding to violations instantly.
- Edge Deployments: Run Volt on Red Hat OpenShift at the edge to support ultra-low-latency services like Internet of Things (IoT), connected vehicles, and smart city infrastructure.
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By deploying Volt Active Data on Red Hat OpenShift, service providers can modernize their BSS and 5G billing systems without sacrificing speed, accuracy, or scalability. The result is a carrier-grade, cloud-native architecture designed for today’s real-time world and ready for the future to come.
