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Customer
Challenge
Needed to extend their load balancing.
Required the ability to take data centers in
and out of service without losing uptime.
Solution
Managed DNS, Traffic Director with
geolocation load balancing.
Results
Moving to a managed DNS provider
gave them the usability, scalability, and
manageability they needed. System was
easy to implement and use.
"Being able to do everything in
the same system versus several
subsystems is ideal"
– Hakon Smeplass
Telenor System Manager
Oracle Dyn Case Study:
TELENOR
Connecting Mobile Content With
Managed DNS
Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, Telenor provides tele, data, and media
services in the Nordics, central and eastern Europe, and Asia, with
mobile operations as their main revenue driver. They are one of the most
popular mobile operators in the world with more than 160 million mobile
subscriptions, and with operations in 12 markets.
Ranked #715 on the Forbes 2000 list, Telenor has yearly revenues of more
than $15.5 billion USD/100 billion NOK, 35,000 employees, and is one of
the largest telecommunications companies in Europe.
The Challenge
The Telenor content delivery network (Telenor CDN) focuses on the
Northern Europe market, with CDN caches localized in data centers in
selected continents and regions of the world. With the company's important
role as a CDN, Telenor's DNS needs were reliable uptime, usability, and the
ability to globally load balance their traffic.
The company had been using various systems for load balancing, but
needed to extend their load balancing functionality with the ability to
connect Telenor CDN users to the data center closest to them for better
performance. This will become even more important over time as Telenor
adds even more data centers in the future. "We found we could do this
the smart way through a managed DNS provider or the expensive way by
buying servers, load balancing hardware, and software, and then setting
