Bharti Airtel (News - Alert) Ltd. has selected Oracle Communications Network Integrity to "optimize the use of its 78,540 kilometer national fiber-optic network," company officials say.

 

The Oracle (News - Alert) Communications Network Integrity is intended to enable Airtel to gain enterprise-wide visibility of network assets by discovering and synchronizing its actual live network with its various OSS. This automated product will replace Airtel's manual process for assessing and reconciling its network usage with its network inventory information.

 

Airtel has a large amount of inventory data, and officials are hoping that improving data accuracy between the live network and OSS will help Airtel improve service-provisioning capabilities.

"We have been using Oracle's technology, business applications and communications – industry applications for 10 years now," said Jai Menon, director, customer service and IT, Bharti Airtel (News - Alert) Ltd.

Airtel already uses Oracle's suite of communications applications, including several components of Oracle Communications Service Fulfillment Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle CRM, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database.

 

Yesterday Voltaire, a vendor of grid backbone products for data centers, announced that its InfiniBand products have achieved Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g and Oracle Enterprise Linux certifications using OpenFabrics Reliable Datagram Sockets over InfiniBand.

 

Voltaire products are designed to improve performance and scalability to Oracle Database clusters, and the company is one of the first to announce full InfiniBand support for Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g.

 

Oracle's Linux development group has developed RDS as an open source project. RDS is a high-bandwidth, low-latency communication protocol that is billed as being able to improve the performance of cluster interconnect intensive applications.

 

The availability of RDS along with InfiniBand fabric supporting software, from the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution, is considered a "major milestone" for Oracle Real Application Clusters and Linux users.

Oracle Enterprise Linux is a component of the Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program, which provides enterprise-class support for Linux. Available as open source, Oracle Enterprise Linux is compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

 

IDC (News - Alert) predicts the market for InfiniBand switch ports will increase at a 47.2 percent compound annual growth rate over the next five years, from $95.1 million in 2006 to $656.3 million by 2011. The CAGR for InfiniBand host channel adapter revenue is forecasted at 35 percent, with revenue reaching $279.7 million in 2011.

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