IBM Selected to Deliver Customized e-Payment

IBM Selected to Deliver Customized e-Payment

Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has tapped IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) elite High Performance On Demand Solutions (HiPODS) Labs to build a highly customized, smart card e-payment infrastructure for Singapore’s mass transit network of buses and trains. Dubbed Symphony for e-payment (e-Symphony), the infrastructure will replace the current Enhanced Integrated Farecard System (EIFS). IBM will help Singapore connect its fare payment systems for its Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) and the Light Rail Transit (LRT) systems, linking them to a central computer of the transport operators SBS Transit Ltd and SMRT Corporation Ltd; card service operator TransitLink; and card manager EZ-Link Pte Ltd.

The IBM HiPODS team will help the group of companies that manage the mass transit network scale from four million transactions today, to more than 10 million transactions in 2010, when a new service line known as the Circle MRT project is completed. The key features of the high-performance infrastructure include fast data processing to support up to 650 transactions per second during peak hour operation, full data transfer among the processing systems; an open technology platform to support transit and non-transit usage for different card applications; and architecture scalability and flexibility to adapt for business growth and new requirements.

The customized high-performance solution for the LTA e-payment infrastructure includes: System p Servers, System x Servers, MPro Workstations, IBM Storage, Tape Libraries and Printers; WebSphere Application Server; WebSphere MQ; IBM DB2 (Viper); Rational Application Design, Development and Testing Tools, Tivoli Tools.

Made in IBM Labs: The HiPODS team allows clients to tap into IBM researchers, engineers, developers and consultants from anywhere in the world. The HiPODS team works with IBM’s largest customers including eBay, VISA and Charles Schwab whose project requirements have evolved from high volume Web architectures toward high performance operating environments.

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