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Overview
With the growing popularity of handheld computing devices, such as cellular
phones, personal data assistants (PDAs) and pagers, many telecommunications
and Internet service providers (ISPs) are becoming concerned about the ability
of their digital communications infrastructures to efficiently handle the growing
workload. With the spreading use of applications, such as location-based services,
short messaging service, onboard Internet-connected automotive systems, wireless
reservation systems and wireless financial transaction systems, the demands on
wireless service providers are growing dramatically. Other Internet-connected
devices are also emerging, for example, home gateways and connected appliances.
IBM WebSphere® Everyplace™ Server, Service Provider Offering for Multiplatforms
(WebSphere Everyplace Server) was introduced to help customers extend
e-business support to this new class of Internet-connected devices.
WebSphere Everyplace Server is intended for enterprises, content providers and
service providers. These customers anticipate the number of devices connecting
to their networks will grow to hundreds of thousands, or even millions. They
require an infrastructure that scales to accommodate this growth. IBM con-
ducted an evaluation test known as “The WebSphere Everyplace Server
20-Million-User Test” to satisfy this need. The test was designed to demonstrate
that in this case WebSphere Everyplace Server is scalable to support large num-
bers of users (20 million) and that many of these users can access the system
simultaneously, during peak periods, with a reasonable response time.