Case Study: Polystar Improves Telecom Networks Performance with Embedded MySQL
- by Bertrand Matthelié
Polystar
delivers and supports systems that increase the quality, revenue and customer
satisfaction of telecommunication services. Headquarted
in Sweden, Polystar helps operators worldwide including Telia, Tele2, Telekom
Malysia and T-Mobile to monitor their network performance and improve service
levels.
Challenges
Deliver
complete turnkey solutions to customers integrating a database ensuring high
performance at scale, while being very easy to use, manage and optimize.
Enable the
implementation of distributed architectures including one database per server while
maintaining a low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Avoid growing
database complexity as the volume of mobile data to monitor and analyze drastically
increases.
Solution
Evaluation
of several databases and selection of MySQL based on its high performance,
manageability, and low TCO.
The MySQL
databases implemented within the Polystar solutions handle on average 3,000 to
5,000 transactions per second.
Up to 50
million records are inserted every day in each database. Typical installations
include between 50 and 100 MySQL databases, up to 300 for the largest ones. Data
is then periodically aggregated, with the original records being overwritten,
as the need for detailed information becomes unnecessary to operators after a
few weeks.
The
exponential growth in mobile data traffic driven by the proliferation of
smartphones and usage of social media requires ever more powerful solutions to
monitor, analyze and turn network data into actionable business intelligence.
With MySQL, Polystar can deliver powerful, yet easy to manage, solutions to its
customers.
MySQL-based
Polystar solutions enable operators to monitor, manage and improve the service
levels of their telecom networks in over a dozen countries from a single
location.
The new
and innovative MySQL features constantly delivered by Oracle help ensure
Polystar that it will be able to meet its customer’s needs as they evolve.
“MySQL has been
a great embedded database choice for us. It delivers the high performance we
need while remaining very easy to use, manage and tune. Power and simplicity at
its best.” Mats
Söderlindh, COO at Polystar.
