Telefônica resizes Speedy billing authentication system

São Paulo - To support the growing number of users, carrier invests in equipment change and increase of storage capacity.

By Rodrigo Caetano, reporter, Computerworld - February 26th, 2009 – 05:47 p.m.

The advance of broadband services has led Telefônica to invest in the expansion of its billing and authentication system. The carrier, in collaboration with the integrator Medidata, implemented the Speedy Portal reorganization project, ensuring capacity to handle more than 2.5 million users, the total number of customers presently.

According Maurício Hara, a planning manager with Telefônica, the portal is responsible for authenticating and enabling access for all Speedy users, besides processing the billing and determining the bandwidth contracted. "The user always connects at full speed and the system provisions the bandwidth", explains the executive.

According to Hara, the portal is resized yearly, as the demand for services grows. This project includes upgrade of Sun servers, change of routers, firewalls, load balancers and reshaping of authentication and management services.

Another important part of the project was the increase of data repository and storage capacity by 60%, with possibility of future staging. Hara explains that the login data and user navigation need to remain stored for legal reasons.

The project was designed to allow greater scalability with the use of virtualization. As a highly critical environment, resizing demanded the creation of a backup area on disk, using snapshot technology, and on database-dedicated tape systems.

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