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How Symlabs Virtual Directory Server Ensures 99.999% Uptime For LDAP Directory Access
Symlabs, Inc.
Symlabs Virtual Directory Server has been specially designed to provide high availability for existing LDAP Directory deployments with uptime requirements exceeding the "five figure range" (99.999%). In order to support such stringent requirements, special care must be undertaken for the architecture and deployment. The following "best practices" show how existing customers have successfully implemented 99.999% available LDAP directory infrastructure by including Symlabs Virtual Directory Server. As organizations move to more complex identity management and virtual directory solutions, the presence of this level of underlying reliability becomes a critical system success factor.
Short Message Peer To Peer Protocol (SMPP)
Sampo Kellomäki
Part of a series that explores using Symlabs Virtual Directory Server and its multi-protocol proxy features to solve complex messaging problems, this white paper describes solutions for the SMPP architecture that operators deploy to provide SMS (Short Message Service, also commonly referred to as text messaging or texting). Discussion shows how the high performance and powerful features offered in virtual directory technology from Symlabs are uniquely applied to SMPP problem areas such as scaling, translation, and routing.Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)
Sampo Kellomäki
Part of a series that explores solving complex messaging problems using Symlabs Virtual Directory Server and its multi-protocol proxy features, this white paper describes solutions that can be applied in the MMS architecture used by operators to provide Multimedia Messaging Service for sending and receiving pictures, ringtones, or other non-text content. Solutions to a wide variety of problems are discussed, including traffic flow, scaling, filtering, billing, translation, and load balancing, where in all cases the high performance and powerful features offered by virtual directory technology from Symlabs are uniquely suited to resolving issues faced by both carriers and value-added providers.