Hosting a Distributed Fraud Detection Application for a Leading Provider of Wireless Services

About Sprint

Sprint offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users. Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including two robust wireless networks serving more than 51 million customers at the end of third quarter 2006; industry-leading mobile data services; instant national and international walkie-talkie capabilities; and an award-winning and global Tier 1 Internet backbone.

Value Proposition

Sprint deals with massive amounts of network data as a result of its large client-base and expansive 3G networks. To reduce the company's annual hardware and maintenance costs, Sprint deployed a fabric of commodity servers powered by Appistry EAF, thus reducing it's reliance on "Big Iron" and gaining the capacity to scale as demand increases over time.

Key Data Points

• The Appistry-enabled distributed application demonstrated linear scale through 100 computers of varying capability.
• High-throughput and low overhead were achieved, with each commodity-grade computer processing in excess of 500 tps.

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