Sun MicrosystemsandComptelare jointly
providing a Data Retention Solution to mobile and fixed telecom
operators for data retention of voice call and internet traffic
related data.
The Data Retention Solution, announced at this week’s 3GSM
Congress in Barcelona, is designed to fully support the
requirements of the European Union Data Retention Directive (EDRD),
including phase two, which covers the retention of data from IP and
data networks.
According to the directive, mobile and fixed operators in all 27
EU member countries should have a data retention product in place
by 15 September this year.
EDRD, which the EU issued in March 2006, mandates the retention
of voice call and internet traffic related data, which could be
used in cases of serious crimes, including terrorism.
The directive includes the retention of data from mobile phones,
internet and fixed telephony, internet access and e-mail.
According to the directive, data must be retained for a period
of between six months and two years, but some member states have
chosen to extend that period to up to five years.
Finland-based Comptel will be providing management software in
the joint product, which also includes Sun hardware and
software.
Jarmo Kuusivuori, managing director at Sun Microsystems Finland,
said, "Sun has been one of Comptel's strategic partners for many
years. We have successful joint references from small to large
solutions covering over 20 million subscribers and one billion call
data records per day.”
Comptel's software runs on Sun Fire servers, running the Solaris
10 OS. The stored data is compressed automatically using the
Solaris ZFS file system, and Sun StorageTek storage systems take
care of the physical storing of the data during the retention
period.
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