Reliance Communications : SPICE

To squeeze costs and inefficiencies out of the IT infrastructure, while

planning for the increasing demands that a rapidly growing business placed on

the systems, Reliance Communications ( RCOM) realized it was imperative to use

compute resources to perform the application-centric, intelligent tasks; and to

eliminate usage of expensive compute resources for movement of data between

different storage resources.

RCOM embarked on an initiative that was unheard of in the telecom world —

which was to deploy NFS to support storage -intensive (read/write) and backup

tasks. This not only freed compute resources to support growing business needs,

but also freed up capacity on existing SAN systems to support the other,

transaction-intensive (performance-hungry), applications which were required to

handle greater traffic.

This is also the only implementation of its kind in the telecom industry

worldwide, where a Mediation application (in this specific case, Intec) has been

ported on Sun Solaris, using NFS as the storage protocol.