Presented at the AWS Tech Summit - Berlin, May 2011

1. How to run Telco Real-time Applications on AWS Klaus Schuch Nokia Siemens Networks Product Management – Charging and Billing AWS Tech Summit Berlin – 16th May 2011

3. Started operations on April 2007

4. €13 bn net sales in 2010

5. 65,000 employees

6. 75 of top 100 operators worldwide

7. 150 countries

8. 3 billion mobile subscribers servedHeadquarter in Espoo, Finland I’m here ! Location in Berlin

9. Are our applications ready for the cloud ? Is the cloud ready for telco-grade applications ? Just two Questions …

10. This is a Telco Network

12. Response time < 100 ms

13. … for 95% of the requests

14. High availability – 99,999%

15. Less than 5 min service downtime per year

17. Interacts with core network and applications

18. Real-time: no money – no service

19. Typically used for prepaid scenarios – and more and more for postpaid

20. High throughput

21. up to 20.000 database transactions/sec

22. Stores a lot of money

23. 10 € per user

24. 20 Mio user  200 Mio €LAN Switch LAN Switch free free Charging Servers Charging Servers Database Server Database Server Database Storage Database Storage 2x 42U Racks

25. Proof of Concept AWS charge@once unified Charging Server NSN Office Charging Server Charging Server Windows Remote Desktop Loadsimulator Database Server Internet

27. Charging in the cloud is feasible:

28. Latency is not an issue – within the cloud

29. Performance is as expected from the given EC2 Compute Units

31. Needed: In-memory database with scale-out approach

32. Elasticity has to be implemented in our application

34. Enable cost based service planning

35. Will be offered as SaaS

36. Customer Experience Management

37. Raising customer satisfaction

38. Will be offered as SaaS

39. SMS-Center, MMS-Center

40. Mediation, Customer Care