Jérôme Rodrigues and Florian Splendido of Orange, the mobile arm of France Télécom, presented on their architecture for handling M2M – basically large numbers of devices communicating (here via Orange SIM cards) and requiring both state management and message routing.
Interestingly Orange had gone through a build vs buy (i.e. tool vs solution) comparison for their M2M solution, and found that the use of a high-throughput, high-availability/fault-tolerent “event server” (a.k.a. TIBCO BusinessEvents) was the better solution in their case. Although Jerome and Florian mentioned that they did not consider the M2M handling as “CEP” per se, the need for data aggregation and useage throttling / quota management meant that some “complex events” are certainly involved in the solution. Their other comment was on the need for an in-memory solution, with the volume of data precluding a database-oriented architecture. And they also use TIBCO Hawk for monitoring their systems…
