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BNESIM is an international mobile operator<\/a> offering Data, Voice and Messaging connections in 170+ countries without roaming charges.\u00a0Our mission is to connect people with people, machines with machines, and even people with machines, where ever they are.\u00a0We’ve built our platform with over 340, and growing, local telecom operator networks with different speeds, stability, and overall performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We live in the age of connection. As digital cosmopolitans, we can’t afford a single hour without the Internet. No one can accept a sloppy connection or bad sound quality during phone calls. This is why our technical team is a group of stressed people, affected by insomnia, anxiety, panic, and even uncontrollable crying crises! Jokes aside, it would not be possible to deliver our high level of service without the help of our technical partners at UpCloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We began before “cloud” had generated any hype among the tech nerds and so have been self-hosting our servers around the world for the last twenty years. When our customer base started reaching 50, 70, 100, and now 170 countries, we realized that we needed to be more agile. We tested all the major players on the market looking for the performance we needed: high bandwidth, low latency and fast disk access. UpCloud<\/a> was the winner of our benchmarks<\/a> and, to this day, they have never let us down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Test hosting on UpCloud!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Almost our whole platform is run on UpCloud’s infrastructure: Data gateways, Voice gateways, user management, and billing.\u00a0We have several UpCloud servers, all of them relatively small. We prefer to distribute the load on multiple nodes with a maximum of 16GB of memory each. Thanks to this, we are able to horizontally scale our services by just adding a new node at any moment with zero downtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With our current configuration, we are able to support hundreds of thousands of customers. However, our simulations show that we could scale to several millions of customers without any software changes. Our high availability setup has proven very reliable, we haven\u2019t had a single outage due to technical problems while hosting on UpCloud. What more could you ask for!<\/p>\n\n\n\n At BNESIM, we carefully monitor the performance of our services in real time. UpCloud deployment in 45 seconds gives us superpowers we could never have with physical servers. We can deploy a new node when we need it, where we need it. If, for example, we have an unexpected number of customers in America, we can activate a new voice gateway in less than a minute, automatically thanks to the UpCloud API<\/a>! The new gateway will connect to the other nodes in the network, using the fast private network, protected by an extra layer of encryption, and be immediately available for our customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPrevious challenges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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