1 Introduction

Service Communication Proxy (SCP) is a decentralized solution composed of Service Proxy Controllers and Service Proxy Workers. SCP is deployed alongside 5G network functions and provides routing control, resiliency, and observability to the core network. For more information about SCP architecture, see Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Service Communication Proxy User Guide.

SCP can optionally leverage the service mesh for internal and external communications. The service mesh integration supports the services by deploying a special sidecar proxy in the environment to intercept network communications between microservices.

This document describes test topologies and corresponding test scenarios for various features of SCP to understand the performance of SCP in a different network environment. The benchmarking tests are performed on a single nonredundant SCP nodal instance.

1.1 Purpose and Scope

This document is designed to help operators measure the capacity and performance of SCP, SCP microservices, and deployment environment setup software such as Cloud Native Environment (CNE) and cnDBTier.

This document provides SCP performance and capacity data.

It is recommended that SCP is run through a benchmark on the target cloud native infrastructure to determine the capacity and performance in the target infrastructure. This information can be used to adjust the initial deployment resources and to help predict resource requirements when SCP is scaled up.

1.2 References

  • Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Cloud Native Environment Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide
  • Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Service Communication Proxy User Guide
  • Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, cnDBTier Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide
  • Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Operations Services Overlay Installation Guide
  • Oracle Communications Cloud Native Configuration Console Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide
  • Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Service Communication Proxy Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide