Capacity Planning

As a financial institution, processor or switch, you need to know your system’s limits, so your users won’t. The last thing you want is for your customers to experience delays or denied transactions because your system is overloaded. Proactive testing enables you to determine your system’s capacity when you are:

• Experiencing rapid transaction growth such as increasing debit volumes
• Updating your core system
• Changing vendor products
• Adding ATMs or POS devices
• Merging an acquired ATM network
• Participating in a new switch
• Changing your communication infrastructure

Paragon provides products and services to accurately determine your system’s capacity. Paragon’s FASTress™ can take your system to its limit by simultaneously simulating transactions from all of your interfaces including ATMs, PIN debit interchanges, and signature debit networks. Throttle transactions up and down during testing. Simulate multiple transactions from different sources. Determine your system’s breaking point. Load testing rates can be throttled by varying the transactions per second (TPS) – even while the tests are running. Accurate stress testing is possible without the expense of a third-party test facility. You can conduct volume testing without a single test device—according to your schedule and requirements.

Paragon Professional Services Specialists bring expertise with over 60 financial message formats and with load testing systems for capacity planning. Services include:

• Engagements to perform stress testing on your behalf
• Configuring FASTress for specific interfaces
• Delivery and installation of FASTress software
• Connecting FASTress software to the host
• Comprehensive product training

To find out more about how FASTress can help you measure system capacity, contact sales@paragonedge.com.

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