Building an Open Source, Carrier Grade Platform for Data Management with MySQL Cluster

Whether Service Providers 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 advertising, the database plays a key enabling role.

With the rapid shift from closed, expensive and proprietary technology, MySQL has grown to become the world's most popular open source database. In this paper we explore how an open source carrier grade platform architecture is able to cost-effectively meet the communication industry's high availability, scalability and real-time performance requirements.