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Mass acceptance of the Internet, mobile telephony, and high-speed network services has changed the way individuals communicate, necessitating a fundamental shift in the way these services are delivered. In this market, attracting and keeping customers means bringing innovative new services to market quickly, while ensuring that those services can scale to meet high volumes of subscribers reliably. In direct response to these demands, communications equipment manufacturers and service providers are moving away from closed, proprietary network infrastructures—custom-built systems that often have difficulty meeting the pace of innovation that today's markets necessitate.
Overview
As they move away from service-specific, proprietary systems, providers increasingly need open data management systems that still deliver the real-time performance required by voice and data networks. Consequently, open, commercial real-time databases are urgently needed.
This tutorial examines the forces driving the telecommunications industry to enhance its data management capabilities, and it explores the options now available for meeting these objectives. The tutorial then offers a detailed look at how commercial in-memory databases can provide a robust solution for addressing today's demands for network performance and gives several examples of specific applications that are particularly well-suited to benefit from in-memory databases.
