NEWS

Frankfurt, Germany, September 12, 2007

Benchmark Testing

Outstanding real-time performance results for LHS software on HP server and storage hardware

Solution handles charging of up to 36.7 million post- and prepaid subscribers at an average latency of less than 23 milliseconds

LHS, a leading provider of telecom billing and customer care systems across the wireless, wireline, and IP telecom markets worldwide, announced today the results of the latest benchmark of LHS' convergent charging solution based on BSCS iX Release 2 on an HP Integrity Superdome Server. The performance benchmark has shown excellent results in terms of throughput, latency and availability.

The LHS system, running HP-UX 11i with HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Arrays, was set up in a production-like environment and was able to charge the real-time traffic of up to 36.7 million customers. Achieving outstanding throughput of 10,200 transactions per second (TPS), the system demonstrated an extraordinarily low average latency of 22.9 milliseconds with an overall system utilization of 70 percent. For the first time, BSCS has broken through the barrier of 10,000 TPS, including heavy-overload scenarios with prepaid and postpaid traffic processed simultaneously.

“We are very pleased with the results of this year’s benchmark. This benchmark was the ultimate proof point that BSCS is a truly convergent system, being able to handle online charging and offline charging simultaneously in a single system fulfilling the highest expectations of a carrier-grade convergent charging solution," said Dr. Jens Troetscher, CTO at LHS. “While the throughput has increased by an impressive 82 percent, the average latency shows a 23-percent faster response time compared to results from a similar benchmark environment with the predecessor release of BSCS iX.”

Achieving this benchmark once again shows HP Integrity servers deliver power, flexibility and low latency in a cost-effective way," said Patty Lewis, Director of Business Support Systems, Communications, Media and Entertainment at HP.

About LHS

LHS is a leading provider of telecom billing and customer care systems across the wireless, wireline, and IP telecom markets worldwide.

LHS Business Support Systems offer full convergence on various levels, supporting the complete range of business models both across the mix of fixed and mobile services, as well as prepaid and postpaid services.

LHS builds innovative systems that enable our customers to introduce new services fast, helping drive revenues up, while keeping operational costs to a minimum. LHS was awarded “Best Billing or Customer Care Solution” by the GSM Association in Cannes in 2005, won the IIR World Billing Awards for its "Overall Best Contribution to Billing" in London in 2005 and 2006 as well as the “Stratecast Global Investment of R&D Resources to Address Core Billing Needs Award“ by Frost & Sullivan in 2007.

LHS is an independent software vendor (ISV) with headquarters in Germany, and offices in Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Malaysia, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates. LHS is part of the LHS Group, and LHS Aktiengesellschaft as the Group’s Holding company is a public company listed on the Frankfurter Stock Exchange (LHS400).For more information, please visit www.lhsgroup.com.

 
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Managing Directors: Wolfgang Kroh, Axel Barta, Dr. Jens Troetscher

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