Case Study: Telefónica Tech scales 30 million IoT devices with MongoDB

Telefónica Tech cuts hardware needs by 40% with MongoDB

Telefónica Tech, the digital transformation arm of telecommunications giant Telefónica, faced the challenge of managing explosive growth in IoT device usage. With its Kite Platform running 30 million devices and expecting billions more, it needed a highly scalable database solution to handle massive, load-intensive data volumes in real time without downtime. The company turned to vendor MongoDB to meet its capacity and cost needs.

MongoDB provided a scalable database solution that became the core of the Kite Platform, supporting 90% of its data. By utilizing MongoDB's sharding technology, Telefónica Tech achieved phenomenal scale, handling up to three million document consultations per second with sub-millisecond latency. The results included a 40% reduction in hardware and compute costs while practically doubling platform capacity. MongoDB's solution also provided critical geo-redundancy, ensuring seamless operation and enabling new services.

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