This is our third ‘multi-master MySQL’ blog in our Continuent MySQL Use Case series, with a focus on Telco providers. This blog concludes our multi-master MySQL mini-series along with the following two blogs:

• Multi-master MySQL for e-Commerce Sites
• Geo-distributed Multi-master MySQL for Financial Services SaaS Providers

As per our initial multi-master MySQL use case blog, multi-master replication for MySQL typically means that a user can write to any master node knowing that the write will be eventually consistent for …

Tecnotree is a global provider of telecom IT solutions for the management of products, customers and revenue. Tecnotree helps communications service providers to transform their business towards a marketplace of digital services. Tecnotree empowers service providers to monetise on service bundles, provide personalized user experiences and augment value throughout the customer lifecycle. With over 1100 telecom experts, Tecnotree serves more than 100 service providers in over 70 countries. Tecnotree is listed on the main list of NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.

Challenges

• Integrate a database well suited to power the mission critical Tecnotree solutions deployed by telecom operators in networks counting over 50 million subscribers.
• Standardize on one database for the core Tecnotree products, while meeting the company’s technical and economic requirements.
• Select a database delivering the configuration …

Verizon Wireless, the #1 mobile carrier in the United States, operates the nation’s largest 3G and 4G LTE network, with the most subscribers (109 millions) and the highest revenue ($70.2 Billion in 2011). Verizon Wireless built the first wide-area wireless broadband network and delivered the first wireless consumer 3G multimedia service in the US, and offers global voice and data services in more than 200 destinations around the world. To support 4.2 million daily wireless transactions and 493,000 calls and emails transactions produced by 94.2 million retail customers, Verizon Wireless employs over 78,000 employees with area headquarters across the United States.

The Business Challenge

Seeing the stupendous rise in social media, video streaming, live broadcasting…etc which redefined the scope of technology, Verizon Wireless, as a technology savvy …

Headquartered in Finland, EmblaCom Oy provides turnkey and cloud-hosted voice solutions to mobile operators around the globe. Since launching the original mobile private branch exchange (PBX) in 1998, the company has focused on helping its partners provide efficient voice communications to their key business customers. The company’s voice solutions are used by millions of subscribers, worldwide.

EmblaCom Oy needed to replace several database engines with a standardized, scalable, development-friendly database solution to maximize availability and cut costs. The company chose MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition, which has maximized accessibility to EmblaCom’s services for its clients and their hundreds of thousands of subscribers. The initiative has also reduced, by half, the cost of the database solution installation for customers, as well as lowered maintenance and …

The convergence of telecommunications onto IP (Internet Protocol) based networks is revolutionizing today's communications industry. Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are challenged to deliver compelling new personalized services with greater agility and lower costs than ever before.

Whether they are looking to deploy new Web/Telco 2.0 applications to mobile Internet users or consolidating subscriber data within the network to support greater service personalization and targeted communications, the database plays a key role in enabling new services.

We believe MySQL is pretty much unique in the industry by providing the insight and experience to marry the innovation and speed of the Web with the proven capabilities of the carrier network. MySQL is deployed in 9 of the top 10 most trafficked sites on the web [1] including Google, Facebook and YouTube.  MySQL is also extensively deployed in the network domain, …