Top 3 Kafka Streams Challenges
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Amdocs s a leading independent supplier of real-time business support systems (BSS) to communication service providers (CSPs).
Admdocs’ mission-critical applications need to bel ale to process and rapidly analyze massive volumes of streaming data in real time to ensure that more than 600 million mobile telecommunications users around the world enjoy the best network and data experience possible while enabling mobile operators to monetize data use and prevent fraud in real time.
Amdocs has been at the forefront of telecommunications software development and innovation. This is characterized by its open platform, domain experience, and engineering expertise. Its success is evident in the many long-term relationships it has fostered with the largest, most progressive and demanding telecommunications service providers across the globe.
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The Challenge
Mobile operators across the globe face the challenge of keeping up with the explosion of data brought by 5G and IoT. In trying to cope with these issues, they have increasingly turned to virtualization to improve flexibility and reduce operational overhead.
Amdocs has been at the vanguard of virtualization with many successfully deployed solutions scaling to meet the needs of the world’s leading Tier 1 service providers.
To better adapt to the world of 5G and IoT, Amdocs required a more powerful data platform for the advanced software architecture upon which all of the company’s solutions are built in order to enabvle seamless integration, centralization of common functionalities, and support for custom logic.
The Solution
In 2012, Openet, which would be acquired by Amdocs in 2022, selected Volt Active Data as the logical choice for a data platform capable of supporting the real-time demands of mobile data.
“We wanted to move toward a higher-performance, in-memory database that could combine the capabilities of an operational database, real-time analytics, and stream processing in one easy-to-use platform,” said Openet Director of Product Development, Oisin Loftus. “We also needed a database that was elastically scalable and could grow and contract as needed.”
Since Openet solutions are always inline in a service provider’s call path, Openet required transaction latencies of less than 20 milliseconds, so performance and scalability were major requirements.
“Volt Active Data offers the TCO, performance, and scalability we need while enabling us to handle fast data and the real-time feeds of service provider traffic,” Loftus said.
With Volt Active Data, Amdocs can now offer transactional, database-oriented applications against data feeds that were previously limited to stream processing methods.
The Results
By integrating Volt Active Data’s in-memory database infrastructure to support its wide range of business support systems, Amdocs has been able to scale and automate real-time decisions.
Volt Active Data has allowed Amdocs to maximize performance, elasticity, and utilization of its application framework model.
