Project BriefOpen Competition 1 - Information TechnologyScalable and Reliable Accounting Engine for Inter-Networked ServicesDesign and prototype a core accounting engine that is flexible and scalable to accommodate a wide range of business models and pricing structures, and reliable to support mission-critical enterprise and carrier services enabling a new generation of networked services. Sponsor: Tradescape (formerly Xcerla Corporation)17115 Linda Mesa DriveMorgan Hill, CA 95037
The increase in network bandwidth allows enterprises and service providers to outsource component services and aggregate external resources. Outsourcing of non-core services enables them to focus on their core competencies, thereby improving their operating efficiency and fundamentally changing the way services are delivered. However, the full realization of this inter-networked service economy hinges on the development of a new resource tracking and accounting technology. Xcerla Corporation proposes to develop flexible, large-scale and fault-tolerant resource accounting technology for inter-networked services. The new resource accounting system will enable a broad spectrum of services ranging from next-generation wireless to broadband access services, and from grid computing to Web services. Xcerla's core accounting engine will accommodate a wide range of business models and pricing structures (including micropayments) across a value chain. This project will employ several distributed computing techniques, rarely adopted by mainstream commercial products, to overcome the technical challenge of providing flexibility, scalability, and yet fault-tolerance. Xcerla will use the same technology to address the broad-based needs of the future inter-networked services. In proposing the project, Xcerla brings together a unique partnership of private and academic organizations with complementary expertise, including the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project, to design and prototype such technology. As a startup company, Xcerla has been unable to obtain private funding, because of the project's high technical risks, or other government research grants for its for-profit business model. ATP funding provides Xcerla with a unique opportunity to develop a high impact technology, license it back to the government research labs and universities free of royalty, and enable a whole generation of inter-networked services.
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