Global Service Delivery Platform: Deployment architecture and performance analysis

A key advantage of a Service Delivery Platform (SDP) is to enable service providers to develop and deliver services more rapidly. Most of the papers that have been written describe the elements in SDP from a features and functionality viewpoint. In this paper, we illustrate a framework and methodology to examine the SDP deployment architecture from a performance viewpoint, and describe the steps in the methodology. Application of this methodology to case studies can help the operator to answer the following questions: Is one Global SDP sufficient; will all SDP applications be implemented and executed at the central SDP; is there any solution to minimize the latency impact. Through this model, network designers can examine the use cases, the processing requirements, as well as the performance requirements associated with different SDP network architectures.