Openwave® Directory

The increasing popularity of smartphones and other networked devices is bringing greater volumes of data traffic to mobile operators’ networks. Rising data volumes - coupled with the competitive pricing is keeping ARPU flat which is eating into mobile operators’ margins.

Mobile operators need a traffic policy management solution that helps them extract the maximum return from their investments. The Openwave Subscriber Profile Directory stores and delivers subscriber policies across large distributed networks in real-time to support policy enforcement for each flow, transaction and packet with extremely low latency.

Operator Benefits

• Low Latency: Replicas serve single entry requests in 1-5 milliseconds depending on the hardware platform.
• Continuous Operation During Upgrades: Component by component upgrades and automatic distribution of schema updates facilitates daily management of the data model.
• Highly Scalable: Lightweight replication mechanism ensures low replication load on the Master(s).
• High Service Availability: The Architecture allows the operator to define different levels of spare capacity depending on the application.
• Highly Reliable: Proven success on a large scale (see stats, right).