LAPS has been designed to process high volumes and support the complexities of multiple entities in any insourcing or acquisition scenario. "The benchmark proves that LAPS can process over 50 million transactions per hour, which exceeded the original test targets by a phenomenal 70 percent, says Joaquin de Valenzuela, manager, global retail banking solution at Sun Microsystems. "Deploying Logica's system on Sun's Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS) provides banks with a high-end, scalable solution that allows them to maximise throughput and lower the total cost of ownership while simplifying their IT environments." For the benchmark test, Logica and Sun Microsystems recreated the payments environment according to the real requirements of a global bank, processing outgoing SEPA Credit Transfer requests to Euro Banking Association (EBA).