The client wanted to determine the impact of their 5 year forecast for increased transactions rates and terminal estate on their existing hardware and software platforms. Iliad were engaged to set up and undertake a performance test to replicate their existing and planned transaction volumes. The Iliad team set up a performance test harness to replicate:-

• 12,000 Hypercom Point of sale devices
• 3,000 Diebold ATMs
• Visa and MasterCard “on-us” Transactions.

In addition Iliad were able to replicate the back end systems for both the card issuing platform and connections to Visa and MasterCard to replicate authorisations of “not-on-us” transactions. Allowing a full end to end test including settlement and clearing Transactions rates were targeted to be in excess of 300TPS. Iliad were able to set up and execute the required transaction volumes and were able to demonstrate that the client’s hardware and software configurations were able to exceed the targeted transaction rates.