Visa U.S.A. -- Detail Slide #2 Notes

Benefits: Rock solid reliability, high availability

Eight hours of down time, equivalent to 99.9% uptime, would mean a potential loss of $5 billion in transactions.
Dynamic load balancing handles unexpectedly high demand.

Results: Successful network upgrade

Designed to process more than $1 trillion in payments annually.
Accommodates 10,000 transactions per second, 3x its current peak.
"It's a real credit to BEA that its Tuxedo software is able to power such an immense transaction system. '

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"Besides being the most proven and best-of-breed technology, BEA Tuxedo was the only product that met or exceeded all of our requirements," said Scott Thompson, Visa USA's Chief Technology Officer.
The BEA Tuxedo transaction platform communicates across Visa's secure, private IP (Internet Protocol) network. Compliance with open standards protects Visa's investment and extends the life of the infrastructure indefinitely by enabling Visa to add and customize new features and capabilities rapidly in response to changing market opportunities. It also scales by an order of magnitude beyond Visa's current financial transaction volume, which is already the heaviest in the world, to handle Visa's projected traffic in the coming years.

Worldwide, the network includes nine million miles of fiber, enough to circle the globe 400 times. "The system is so massive that it defies a person's ability to comprehend. But despite such size, it's so reliable that it actually serves as a backup to other payment platforms. It's a real credit to BEA that its Tuxedo software is able to power such an immense transaction system," said Sara Garrison, Senior Vice President, Technology Development, Visa USA.

In addition to the superiority of BEA's software, the strength of BEA's Services organization, including its consulting and customer support groups, proved to be a key success factor for Visa. Visa worked closely with BEA from the initial architectural assessment all the way through to design and implementation of its new payments network. In addition, the global presence of the BEA Support organization was a key factor in Visa's choice of the BEA platform. "BEA's highly skilled customer support organization responds quickly to our requests, and its worldwide presence gives us peace of mind as we look to the future when the design concepts of the platform expand beyond North America," added Garrison.