News Release from Oracle - Massive Volume of Network Sessions

Oracle Communications Proves Ability to Manage Massive Volume of Network Sessions

Performance Test of Oracle Communications Converged Application Server Running on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Demonstrates Extreme Performance Required to Roll Out 4G and Next-Generation Services

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA – February 28, 2011

News Facts

Oracle today released the results of a performance test demonstrating that Oracle Communications Converged Application Server running on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, and using the Oracle Linux operating system, can deliver exceptional performance for communications service providers (CSPs) looking to efficiently provide next-generation voice, video and data services over internet protocol (IP)-based networks.

In this performance test, Oracle measured the session initiation protocol (SIP) processing performance of Oracle Communications Converged Application Server by executing a SIP scenario based on a 13 message back-to-back user agent (B2BUA) – the standard industry SIP call-controlling component that maintains complete call state and controls call set up, management and termination.

Oracle Communications Converged Application Server running on an eight-node Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2 quarter rack achieved peak capacity of approximately 180 million busy hour call attempts (BHCA). Busy hour call attempts is a standard industry measurement used to evaluate the capacity of telephone networks.(1)

Oracle Communications Converged Application Server running in high availability mode, with full state replication, achieved a peak capacity of approximately 62 million BHCA.

This performance test demonstrates that Oracle’s offerings can meet the most stringent requirements from CSPs. For example, by running in high availability mode, and achieving 62 million BHCA, only three instances of Oracle Communications Converged Application Server running on Oracle Exalogic could handle the nearly three billion phone calls made in the United States every day.

Supporting Quotes 

"Service providers are rapidly deploying LTE, which is based on 4G next-generation wireless standards, and a plethora of next-generation services that are designed to support billions of machine-to-machine (M2M) devices. With these advanced wireless broadband technology deployments, service providers need to ensure their underlying infrastructure can scale dramatically," said Ari Banerjee, senior analyst, Heavy Reading. "With this performance test, Oracle has demonstrated that its SIP application server is well positioned to handle these challenging market demands."

“Oracle Communications Converged Application Server running on Oracle Exalogic enables communications service providers to handle growing mobile network capacity demands and deliver traditional and new services to customers. These performance results demonstrate our commitment to developing engineered systems that stand head and shoulders above competitive offerings to meet and exceed our customers’ current and future needs,” said Bhaskar Gorti, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Communications.

Supporting Resources

Oracle Communications

Oracle Communications Converged Application Server

Oracle Communications Converged Applications Performance Test White Paper

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

Oracle Linux

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About Oracle Communications

Only Oracle’s software and systems span the communications industry technology landscape — from carrier-grade servers, storage and IT infrastructure, to mission-critical business and operational support systems and service delivery platforms; from business intelligence applications and retail point-of-sale solutions to the Java platform running on more than three billion mobile and handheld devices.  Oracle helps 100 of the world's top 100 service providers innovate and exploit new business models, build strong, profitable customer relationships, and streamline operations. For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/communications/index.html

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center.  For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

About Oracle in Industries

Oracle industry solutions leverage the company's best-in-class portfolio of products to address complex business processes relevant to the communications industry, helping speed time to market, reduce costs, and gain a competitive edge.

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Footnotes

Oracle Communications Converged Application Server Performance Test White Paper

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Obama Defies Lawmakers with Recess Appointments to Labor Board

The following was gleaned from an article published by The Hill.

Obama defies lawmakers with recess appointments to labor board

January 5, 2012

The Hill

President Obama will recess-appoint his nominees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), bypassing a likely filibuster from Senate Republicans to keep the controversial agency operating in 2012.

The president will use recess appointments to install Sharon Block, Richard Griffin and Terence Flynn as NLRB members. Block and Griffin are Democrats, while Flynn is a Republican.

The NLRB announcement came a few hours after the president made a public show of another recess appointment, for Richard Cordray, the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Republicans reacted with fury to that appointment, which the White House promptly ignored by making three more. 

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blasted the president’s decision and said he is stripping the Senate of its oversight powers, since the NLRB nominees had not been vetted in a hearing.

The NLRB appointments are a huge victory for Obama’s union allies, which urged the president to use any means necessary to keep the NLRB functioning. Without additional members, the NLRB would have lacked the three-member quorum needed to issue rules and regulations.

Unions had been frustrated by the president’s moves on trade and regulations in 2011, and the NLRB appointments could help wipe the slate clean ahead of the 2012 campaign.

But the move also puts Obama at odds with business, which has clashed repeatedly with the NLRB in recent months. Bruce Josten, the chief lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, denounced the recess appointments as political favoritism and said they will “further poison the well” at the labor board. 

The president is wading into uncharted waters with the appointments, made while the Senate is holding pro forma sessions. Dave Hirschmann, a top official with the Chamber, said a court battle over the constitutionality of Obama’s action is a near certainty.

The GOP’s blockade of NLRB nominees would have prevented it from issuing rules and regulations, since it needs at least three members to form a quorum. The recess appointment of Craig Becker expired Tuesday, leaving the NLRB with only two members.

With Block, Flynn and Griffin now members of the NLRB, the labor board is up to its full roster of five members.

Republicans tried to prevent recess appointments by keeping the Senate in pro forma session over the holiday break, but the White House said that maneuver is meaningless.

Lawyers for several business groups immediately began to explore their legal options to challenge the recess appointments.