Ultra-scalable architectures for Telecommunications and Web 2.0 services

Abstract

Over-the-top Web 2.0 services are generating profound business and technical impact in the Telecommunications industry. On the business front the industry is reacting with deployments of Web 2.0-type services and by exploring nontraditional business models. On the technical side, Web 2.0 communications services such as social networking and microblogging are triggering a major change in the way communications services are architected. The foundation of this transformation is the intensive adoption of distributed and parallel systems technologies to design architectures that scale cost-effectively from thousands to hundreds of millions of subscribers. This paper will examine how to design horizontallyscalable communications services through the use of distributed software systems techniques. We will examine key patterns that are emerging and focus on the middleware software required to design and build such highly scalable systems, specifically targeting communications and data management middleware.

Service-oriented middleware for the Future Internet: state of the art and research directions

“…5 However, despite the great interest in the Future Internet, no common definition of it has been adopted yet. Still, considering that the Future Internet will result from the evolution of today's Internet, the Future Internet can be defined as the union and cooperation of the Internet of Content, Internet of Services, and Internet of Things, supported by an expanding network infrastructure foundation.…”

“…This extension includes scaling up message routers and service registries to the level of federations. Besides ESBs, other networking paradigms that have been applied to wide area and decoupled settings should be considered, such as peer-to-peer systems and publish/subscribe systems [146] or tuple space systems [5].…”