Airtel is India's largest GSM service provider, with a footprint that covers all telecom circles in the country. The company wanted to design a failproof televoting system to manage millions of SMSes and servers to conform to a peak load requirement in excess of 4000 messages per second. The company also wanted to ensure faster processing of votes and eliminate any window for performance delays and build a system that can handle highly volatile SMS traffic. To solve this Airtel chose Enterprise Linux which runs on low cost, on dual Intel Xeon servers.
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Linux has emerged as a key operating system competing for market share in the desktop and server market. The total cost of ownership of a Linux system is significantly lower...
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Building a MAC-Based Security Architecture for the Xen Open-Source Hypervisor
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