Openwave Systems has launched the Openwave Smart User Repository for operators. It's a scalable, reliable user data storage solution, offering high speed, low latency user profile and policy access that is specifically designed to assist operators in managing their increasing data traffic. Openwave says that because of its scalable and reliable architecture, the solution is an excellent candidate for operators 3GPP user profile repository (UPR) and user data repository (UDR) requirements, particularly as operators move quickly to deploy policy infrastructure to address ever-increasing traffic loads.
Smart User Repository allows for configurable deployments based on the operators environment and traffic profile. Openwaves previous version of the offering, Openwave Directory, provides an easy transition for operators evaluating a replacement path for systems that are not scalable. Smart User Repositorys architecture allows the operator to define different levels of spare capacity depending on the criticality of the application. Openwave notes that the repositorys predecessor, Openwave Directory, has demonstrated greater than 99.999% availability over the last five years at the companys largest deployment.
The solution also boasts extremely low latency.  Its lightweight replication mechanism of enables implementation of geo-distribution working to ensure low latency across wide areas. Replicas can serve single entry requests in less than three milliseconds depending on the hardware platform. 
As operators continue to witness unprecedented data traffic volumes, it is incumbent upon them to consider integrated policy management tools that will help them rapidly access user profile and policy  information as is common in the web world, says John Giere, Senior Vice President of Products and Marketing at Openwave. One of our longstanding Tier 1 North American operators has already deployed our repository and is currently processing in excess of 2.5 billion queries a day.