Strategies for Next-generation Network Database Architectures

This paper examines challenges and requirements for next-generation subscriber and network data management.

Faced with increasing competition and pricing pressures, operators are looking to a new breed of “anywhere, anytime” services to boost revenues and subscriber loyalty. Delivering this next generation of services requires not only a network transformation, but a fundamental shift from a network-centric to a subscriber-centric business model. Making that transition is contingent upon the ability to efficiently manage and leverage massive amounts of data.

As a result, operators are rethinking the way they store and manage network, service, device and subscriber data. It is clear that data must be decoupled from the physical and logical databases and applications so that it can be leveraged across multiple services and diverse networks.

Service providers are analyzing different aggregation techniques to rationalize subscriber and network databases, including SDM and XGDB. While SDM is focused on aggregating application layer data, XGDB consolidates network layer data. Tekelec’s XGDB ag