Virtual internet Service Provider Platform

e-brands virtual ISP platform

Global picture of the e-Brands platform  :

9 racks + a SAN rack hosted in LDCOM

The Network

Internet and telecom conectivity

e-Brands had its own AS (21128). the  BGP4 peering was done on  2  cisco 3660 routers with LDCOM and PROXAD.

e-brands was also interconected with :
  • Worldcom
  • SFR
  • Orange
  • BouygueTel
  • Vizzavi
  • Cegetel
The Web aplications where load-balanced par 2 arrowpoint : a CS800 and a CS150 in failover
All the VLANs where deployed in two cisco catalyst 4000, interconected by 2 gigabit trunks .

The web applications

The Web applications where based on a classical 3/tiers  java architecture

The front apache Web servers, on sun X1 servers. Load balanced by the ArrowPoints.
The java applications servers : tomcat + Jboss on SUN T200 et T1125
The Oracle cluster : 2 sun V880 + 1 sun V280R connected with fiber channel on a  Sun/HDS 9010  SAN.

Datawarehouse platform

e-Brands operated a datawarehouse platform for the whole Vivedi Group.

Telecom billing platform

e-Brands was operating a telecom billing system for  8AB division of cegetel.

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SMS platform

e-Brands also had a "SMS brocker" activity.

The SMS where routed to the 3 French mobile operators (SFT, ORANGE, BOUYGUETEL) with a swapcom SMS gateway.

Infrastructure services

the Internet services (DNS, Mail Relay, FTP, monitoring, etc) where all running on OpenBSD.
The Servers Backups where done on a DLT library with Veritas NetBackup
The Oracle Databases backups where done on an LTO library also with Veritas NetBackup