Sun and DGM&S Telecom announced the 10,000 transaction per second barrier for Signaling System Number 7 (SS7) signaling has been shattered by DGM&S SignalWare SS7 software running on Sun server. During a recent benchmark test, more than 10,000 TCAP transactions per second were sustained on a single SS7 Point Code. This exceeds the typical industry performance of up to 2,000 transactions per second on a single system. The high performance generated by the Sun system and DGM&S SignalWare software makes the platform ideally suited for such traffic and database demanding applications as Local Number Portability (LNP) or mobile Home Location Registers (HLR).

The test, conducted at Sun's Menlo Park benchmark center, was performed on dual Sun Enterprise 6000 servers, supporting 128 SS7 links. The systems ran SignalWare software in a dual computing element configuration, with the recently released high performance 8-link, T1/E1 SignalWare board for SS7 network connectivity. SignalWare provides superior scalability for implementation of high throughput-rate telecom applications. The tests were run on four to 16 processors and maintained a steady rate of transactions per processor while allowing enough idle time for CPU intensive applications. [...read more...]

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