Guide to Deploying Carrier Grade Services Using Open Source Technologies

Open source technologies and commodity, carrier-grade hardware can combine to create a highly available, scalable, and responsive infrastructure to deploy next-generation communications services. This paper examines a solution stack based on integrating Sun GlassFish Communications Server, MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition database, the OpenSolaris operating system, Sun Netra ATCA Blades, and Sun open storage products into a carrier-grade solution for converged services - without the traditionally high carrier-grade price.