TOKYO—Feb. 1, 2005––Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) announced Tuesday that NEC Corporation (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Akinobu Kanasugi) has selected TimesTen/DataServer, a TimesTen, Inc. product marketed by TEL's Computer Network Division, as its new AdvancedTCA(*1)-based platform for mobile operators.
NEC adopted TimesTen/DataServer because of its ultra-high speed transaction processing performance, redundancy provided by highly-stable replication functions, scalability, general applicability in development environments that comply with industry standards, and anticipated continuous cost-reduction benefits.
NEC's new SGSN and GGSN (*2) packet core nodes based on this platform will greatly improve processing of the rapidly growing Internet traffic for applications such as packetized voice and video, as well as new services such as on-line gaming over 3G mobile networks. Within the new SGSN and GGSN, TimesTen/DataServer manages system configuration and routing information including IP addresses, roaming, and authentication information. TimesTen/DataServer ensures flexibility, scalability, and resilience while enhancing transactions and managing them in real time. TimesTen/DataServer also facilitates a shorter development cycle, which results in increased overall productivity.
About TimesTen/DataServer
TimesTen/DataServer is the principal product of TimesTen, Inc., a leading developer of in-memory databases. The key features of TimesTen/DataServer are: |
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Transaction processing at tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. |
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High-speed replication functions that place a low burden on CPUs to facilitate construction of redundant memory database structures between SBCs and blades. |
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Use of the API industry standard (SQL ODBC/JDBC), which allows the use of legacy RDBMS technologies without modification, contributing to shorter development times and lower development costs. |
Almost 80% of the world's leading communications device manufacturers use TimesTen/DataServer. As of the end of 2004, TimesTen/DataServer was in use by more than 500 major communications device manufacturers, financial institutions, and exchanges in 35 countries around the world.
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*1. AdvancedTCA: A series of industry standard specifications for the next-generation of carrier grade communications equipment, developed by the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group, comprised of almost 100 companies that adopts standards for PCI-based industrial use embedded boards and related components.
*2. SGSN (Serving GPRS Support Node), GGSN (Gateway GPRS Support Node): Nodes that make up the packet networks of mobile networks. SGSN links with wireless access networks, while GGSN links with ISPs and corporate networks to connect to the Internet. This makes possible packetized communications (i.e., Internet communications) on mobiles via base stations on 3G mobile networks.
About TimesTen, Inc.
TimesTen provides real-time infrastructure software for managing events, transactions and data within performance-critical applications. By enabling systems that are instantly responsive, highly scalable and continuously available, organizations that rely on TimesTen optimize time, manpower and computing resources. Amdocs, Cisco, JP Morgan, Nokia, Sprint and United Airlines are among TimesTen's customers. For more information, visit www.timesten.com.
