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GigaSpaces XAP for Telecommunications

The telecommunications industry is undergoing rapid change. Convergence of fixed line, wireless, satellite, cable and Internet is introducing new opportunities, while at the same time putting greater demands on service provider Operations and Business Support Systems and their IT infrastructures in general.

To address these challenges and take advantage of new opportunities, the world's leading telecommunications firms rely on GigaSpaces XAP and GigaSpaces EDG to rapidly deliver new services that scale on-demand, without fail, while reducing operating and capital expenditures.

GigaSpaces customers in the telecommunications industry, such as Virgin Mobile, Hutchison 3G, Nortel and others, are using GigaSpaces as the scale-out application server for:

  • OSS/BSS
    • Billing, including real-time billing
    • Order Management Systems
    • Provisioning
    • Fulfillment
  • Location-Based Services
  • Service Delivery Platforms
  • SIP Servers
  • Virtual Switching and VoIP
  • Contact Centers and CRM

Meet Your Business Objectives with GigaSpaces XAP

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Rapidly Deliver New Services

Competitive pressures, on the one hand, and opportunities due to increased demand, on the other hand, create the need for mobile carriers and other service providers to rapidly intorduce new services and products. But often, developing and deploying the applications required to deliver these services, and in turn, the middleware software that they rely on, are the barriers to rapid time-to-market.

GigaSpaces XAP can reduce this time-to-market of new revenue-generating services:

  • It provides you with a single middleware product that handles all of your application infrastructure needs. Your developers can focus on what makes your firm unique, and not waste development time on complex "plumbing" issues often associated with building a scalable, reliable and flexible infrastructure -- and with integrating multiple components.
  • GigaSpaces XAP introduces a simple and elegant architecture that is easy to implement and has less moving parts.
  • GigaSpaces XAP is built as a service-oriented architecture (SOA) from the ground up. This allows for easily adding, removing, changing and re-using services.
  • It is standards-based and leverages familiar programming models in Java, .Net, C++, using open source frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. This allows your development teams to leverage existing programming skills and increase productivity.
  • GigaSpaces uses a single model for managing the entire application lifecycle: development, testing, deployment and production.

Reduce Operating and Capital Expenses

At the same time as the number of subscribers and services are growing, service providers are facing the need to reduce expenses. GigaSpaces XAP makes this possible by providing an efficient application infrastructure software:

  • Leverage existing investments in hardware and software resources. GigaSpaces can run on virtually any hardware platform and OS, including Linux, Unix, Windows and Solaris. GigaSpaces XAP is a single platform for .Net, C++ and Java environments.
  • GigaSpaces XAP increases applications throughput, significantly reducing the need for hardware and software to process the same amount of transactions and service requests.
  • Because GigaSpaces is a single middleware product that can handle business logic, messaging and data, it reduces the need to purchase mutliple software licenses for these various components
  • GigaSpaces XAP allows your application to scale on-demand. This means you only need to invest in additional hardware resources when the business justifies it.
  • As detailed above, reducing application lifecycle, saves singificant costs on product development and testing

Improve Customer Experience

As customers and subscribers face a wide range of options, they are becoming more demanding. GigaSpaces XAP can increase customer retention and acquisition by allowing you to deliver highly reliable and faster services.

  • It can scale dynamically to handle peak loads and spikes in throughput, preventing bottlenecks and system slow-down.
  • GigaSpaces XAP can increase application performance for both customer-facing and back-end applications, providing the user with faster service
  • It is a highly resilient application infrastructure. This results in less system failures and down-time; and the ability to compensate for back-end system failures, shielding the customers from any resulting problems.

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