MARBEN V2X v2.1 available now!

June 2013

Marben Products announces the new release v2.1 of its MARBEN V2X software solution.

MARBEN V2X is a full-featured software solution for V2X cooperative systems. It can be integrated in Onboard Units and Road Side Stations. It implements the European profile as defined by ETSI TC ITS and comprises an efficient protocol stack for the Application, Facilities and Network & Transport layer.

The Network & Transport layer supports the Basic Transport Protocol (BTP) on top of GeoNetworking. The Facilities Layer processes CAM and DENM messages.

The Application layer currently supports the following Road Hazard Signalling use cases:

  • emergency vehicle approaching,
  • stationary vehicle,
  • adverse weather condition, and
  • road work.

For more information please visit the MARBEN V2X product home page or contact us at info@marben-products.com for technical details.




MARBEN C++ Diameter v7.0 released

May 20th, 2013

The widely deployed MARBEN C++ Diameter stack has been enhanced to offer the latest 3GPP Diameter interfaces off-the-Shelf.

The new functional features are:

  • New release 11 interfaces Sd, Sy per 3GPP TS 29.212 and 3GPP TS 29.219,
  • New Interface S13/S13' per 3GPP TS 29.272, SWa, STa, SWd, SWm, SWx, S6b/H2 per 3GPP TS 29.273 on release 10,
  • More flexibility for the user to manipulate routes and message destination.

For more technical information on those latest enhancements of the MARBEN Diameter, refers to the MARBEN Diameter 7.0 Release Note.

To receive a free evaluation license and test the new interface available, click here. Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact us at info@marben-products.com.




Meet Marben at LTE World Summit

Amsterdam (Netherland), June 24-26, 2013

Marben will exhibit at the 9th Annual LTE World Summit, the leading mobile event for Maximizing and Monetizing the Mobile Experience in Amsterdam.

Marben will unveil the latest release of its enhanced Diameter Router and Diameter Gateway. Leveraging years of experience in Diameter signalling and building on its widely deployed Diameter stack, Marben will present its Carrier Grade MARBEN DiamX Gateway for Diameter Mediation and MARBEN DiamX Router for DEA/DRA requirements. Come and meet us to see how this solution addressing the upcoming Diameter Signalling Surge is reliable, interoperable and ready-to-run.

Visit our Marben booth #70 to meet our company representatives and learn more on Marben product offering.




Meet Marben at CommunicAsia 2013 in Singapore

June 18-21, 2013

Marben will participate to the Asia's largest integrated info communication technology event.

Marben will meet Asian System Integrators and Mobile Network Operators to present the MARBEN DiamX Diameter signalling solution. Marben will take this opportunity to link connections and partnerships.

Please send an email at sales@marben-products.com to setup a meeting.




Meet Marben at CTIA (Las Vegas, NV)

May 21-23, 2013

Marben will exhibit at CTIA 2013 (May 21-23, 2013 - Las Vegas) the leading mobile event for telecom equipment vendors in US.

Marben has been working for a year on new COTS products around its successful Diameter stack activity that are about to revealed. These solutions will help not only system integrators and equipment vendors but also MVNOs and MNOs to secure their Diameter based communications.

Visit our Marben booth #5065 at CTIA to meet our company representatives and learn more on Marben product offering.




MARBEN Java Diameter v7.0 released

April 17th, 2013

Behind the new performance optimization features that bring once again the Marben' Diameter expertise in the front, the stack had been enhanced to support the most recent 3GPP interfaces.

The new functional features are:

  • New release 11 interfaces Sd, Sy per 3GPP TS 29.212 and 3GPP TS 29.219
  • Interface S13/S13' per 3GPP TS 29.272, SWa, STa, SWd, SWm, SWx, S6b/H2 per 3GPP TS 29.273 on release 10
  • Enhancements of the LTE roaming interface S6a for better adaptability.
  • SCTP support solution per new released SCTP Java package,
  • More flexibility for the user to manipulate routes and message destination on Java stack

For more technical information on those latest enhancements of the MARBEN Diameter, refers to the MARBEN Diameter 7.0 Release Note.

To receive a free evaluation license and test the new MARBEN Diameter stacks, click here. Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact us at info@marben-products.com.




Meet Marben at the MPLS & Ethernet World Congress

March 19-22, 2013 (Paris, France)

Marben will demo at the next MPLS & Ethernet World Congress (March 19 - 22, 2013 - Paris), the world's telecom conferences event on IP/MPLS and new SDN services.

Visit us at the ETICS booth (#203) for a demonstration of new Hierarchical PCE based provisioning of the network. Marben software will interoperate with Alcatel and Orange solutions.

Ask for a personal tour at sales@marben-products.com.


MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor v3.0 available now!

February 2013

Marben Products announces the immediate availability of the new major release version 3.0 of its MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor.

The MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor is a user friendly graphical tool which allows you to rapidly decode, create, edit, modify and encode any ASN.1 values without developing any software. The MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor can process any ASN.1 descriptions due to its embedded compiler and also includes ready-to-use standard ASN.1 descriptions coming from various standardization organizations such as 3GPP, GSM-Association, ETSI, ITU-T, ECMA, IETF and NGTP.

The new features added to this new release are:

  • ASN.1:2008 conformance.
  • Immediate encoding feedback after change. Effects of value changes on encoding are immediately displayed.
  • Improved open type support. Choose type and get the values of @notations set automatically.
  • Export to CSV including block size and headers.
  • Permissive decoding for skipping erroneous encodings.
  • More detailed information like BER tags and bit offsets for types and values.
  • Improved copy/paste now allows copying ASN.1 values and ASN.1 encodings in XML, bit or hexadecimal format.

In addition to the existing ASN.1 descriptions, version v3.0 includes an update of various 3GPP ASN.1 descriptions:

  • RRC (3GPP TS 25.331, TS 36.331)
  • S1AP (3GPP TS 36.413)
  • X2AP (3GPP TS 36.423)
  • NBAP (3GPP TS 25.433)
  • PCAP (3GPP TS 25.453)
  • RANAP (3GPP TS 25.413)
  • RNSAP (3GPP TS 25.423)
  • PKCS#1, PKCS#10, PKCS#10, CMS, PKIX
  • GSMA TAP3
  • ... and many others

MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor supports BER, DER, PER (aligned and unaligned) and XER (basic and canonical) encoding rules. Files with several thousands and millions of values, like CDR files, can be created, decoded, modified and encoded. TAP3 files are supported.

Please visit our Web site for more technical information on those latest enhancements of the MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor v3.0.

To discover all its new valuable capabilities, please download a free evaluation version of the MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact us at info@marben-products.com.


Join us for a Demo at the Next Celtic-Plus Event

March 6-7, 2013 (Kayseri, Turkey)

Marben will demonstrate its R&D work among the UPtoUS project at the Celtic Event in Kayseri, Turkey.

The UptoUs project whose Alcatel Lucent and Orange were also participating, has been a successful project on Mobile Identity and Behavioural Advertising. In the scope of such nomadic and mobile IPTV application, Marben has co-developed a recommendation system, a user profile manager and a context aware system for a better Quality of Experience of the end user and a behavioural targeting for IPTV service provider. Marben brought its Diameter expertise on Privacy-Enhanced Identity Management to manage user authentication and user privacy.

Come and visit us at the Up-to-Us booth to get a demo and to discover all the capabilities.


Meet Marben at the Mobile World Congress 2013

Marben will exhibit at the next Mobile World Congress (February 25 - 28, 2013 - Barcelona) the world's premier telecommunications industry event.

In addition to its Diameter solutions to quickly connect your application to 4G LTE network, its ASN.1 tools for wireless radio access networks (3G UMTS, 4G LTE) and its MPLS/GMPLS Control plane solution to optimize network capacity usage, Marben will present its new solutions for connected cars and V2X communications (Vehicle-to-Vehicle, Vehicle-to-Infrastructure communications based on 802.11p -5.9GHz).

Visit us at booth #5I32 (Hall 5) to meet our company representatives and learn more on our product offering. Do not hesitate to contact us to schedule a private meeting with our senior leadership team.




MARBEN free online decoder Update for Free Online 3GPP LTE/UMTS Decoder

January 2013

The ASN.1 interfaces for the Free Online 3GPP LTE and 3GPP UMTS Decoder have been updated with the latest 3GPP versions of HNBAP, NBAP, RANAP, RNSAP, RRC, S1AP, X2AP, M2AP and M3AP. The update covers releases 8, 9, 10 and 11. Try it here...


MARBEN free online decoder Update for Free Online ASN.1 Decoder structure

January 2013

The Free Online ASN.1 Decoder has been reorganized. The existing interfaces and messages are now grouped by application domains: 3GPP LTE, 3GPP UMTS, CDR, Automotive, Security and Intelligent Networks. Check out the new version.


MARBEN GMPLS v3.4C is available

January 2013

Marben unveils its new MARBEN GMPLS v3.4C, a new minor release of its acknowledged GMPLS protocols suite.

The new v3.4C release includes new features that support the recent draft that has been published in standardisation organisations such as:

  • Support of OTNv3 switching capabilities per draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-signaling-g709v3-04,
  • PCE-P enhancement including support Path-key protection and WDM objects,
  • MIB enhancement to the support of the latest GMPLS Sig and TE MIB drafts,
  • LSP handover and LSP conversions per RFC-5493 and per RFC 5852,
  • Support of the latest WSON draft for WDM equipment

For more technical information please, visit Marben' dedicated GPMLS web pages.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact Marben at info@marben-products.com.





MARBEN CDR Converter v2.0 available

October 12th, 2012

Marben announces the immediate availability of MARBEN CDR Converter v2.0. It introduces the following new features:

  • XML output format.
  • Support of block size and padding.
  • Support of file and message headers (including 3GPP).
  • Data conversion using TBCD and ASCII.
  • Redefinition of the default column separator.
  • Conversion of multiple files.
  • Decoding of erroneous values.
  • Generation of log files in XML format.
  • Usage of MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor project files.

For more information on the latest enhancements of MARBEN CDR Converter v2.0, please check out the CDR Converter home page.

A free trial version of MARBEN CDR Converter v2.0 is available for download.

For additional information, please feel free to contact us at info@marben-products.com.


Update for Free Online ASN.1 Decoder

October 2012

The ASN.1 syntaxes for the Free Online ASN.1 Decoder have been updated with the latest 3GPP versions of HNBAP, NBAP, PCAP, RANAP, RNSAP, RRC, RUA, LPP, S1AP, X2AP and M3AP. The update covers releases 8, 9, 10 and 11. Try it here...


19th ITS World Congress (Vienna - Austria)

October 22-25, 2012

Marben will exhibit at the 19th ITS World Congress (October 22-25, 2012 - Vienna) the largest and most important event in the global Intelligent Transport System calendar and that continues to be of increasing significance globally, gathering over 300 international exhibitors and attracting over 10,000 senior ITS professional visitors, from more than 60 countries worldwide.

In the scope of the future Intelligent Transport System (ITS), Marben will present its new cooperative ITS protocol stack, MARBEN C-ITS, that will provide fast and reliable Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications. Designed for new generation of multi-core processors and supporting GeoNetworking, BTP, CAM, and DENM, MARBEN C-ITS is the most complete and efficient C-ITS protocol stack. By offering MARBEN C-ITS cooperative ITS protocol stack, Marben contributes to the improvement of the road safety and the transport efficiency. Marben is an active member of the "Application requirements and services" (WG1) and "Architecture and cross layer" (WG2) working groups of the ETSI ITS Technical Committee.

Come and visit us at ITS France booth #D40 to get a demonstration and to discover all the capabilities of our MARBEN C-ITS.


Update for Free Online ASN.1 Decoder

July 2012

The ASN.1 syntaxes for the Free Online ASN.1 Decoder have been updated with the latest 3GPP versions of RRC, NBAP, RANAP, RNSAP, SABP, X2AP, S1AP, M2AP, M3AP. The update covers releases 8, 9, 10 and 11. Try it here...


Interop (Las Vegas)

May 8-10, 2012

Marben will exhibit at Interop (May 8-10, 2012 - Las Vegas) the leading business technology event dedicated to interoperability among packet telecom equipment vendors.

Marben has worked on the success of the virtualization and the programmability of the packet network through its strong support of the control plane architecture. Its Control plane solution has been increasing the agility of the traffic engineered packet based transport networks. This year Marben will also significantly enlarge its product portfolio with protocols addressing the virtualization and the unified control plane from the packet to the core networks.

Visit our Marben booth #2168 at Interop to meet our company representatives and learn more on our product offering.


Free Online CDR Decoder available

May 2012

Marben Products extends the service of the Free Online ASN.1 Decoder by adding a CDR decoding capability.
The Free Online CDR Decoder decodes proprietary ASN.1 syntax from the most common network switches as well as CDRs from 3GPP or TAP3 syntaxes from the GSM-Association.
Simply choose the CDR ASN.1 syntax and get your file decoded in XML format. New ASN.1 syntaxes will be added regularly. Try it here.


Marben at Terabit Optical & Data Networking

April 17-19, 2012, Cannes, France

Rémi Theillaud, OIF Networking & Operations Working Group Chair and senior consultant for Marben, will present the OIF Working Group Update - Advances in PCE, GMPLS/Optical Control Plane and ASON at Terabit Layer 123 in Cannes, France on Thursday, the 19th of April.

Take the opportunity to setup a technical meeting to update you on the Marben strategy on the optical control plane.


Mobile World Congress

Barcelona, February 27 - March 1, 2012

Marben will exhibit at the next Mobile World Congress (February 27 - March 1, 2012 - Barcelona) the world's largest exhibition for the wireless and telecom industry.

At MWC 2012, Marben will present its MPLS/GMPLS Control plane solution that boost the capacity and increase the agility of optical core and mobile backhaul networks, its ASN.1 tools optimized for 4G/LTE wireless networks and Diameter solutions to quickly develop your DEA or DRA equipment. In 2012 Marben will significantly enlarge its product portfolio with communication protocols stacks addressing the Intelligent Transportation Systems (cooperative ITS) and M2M market requirements.

Visit us at booth #2D03 (Hall 2) to meet our company representatives and learn more on our product offering. Do not hesitate to contact us to schedule a private meeting with our senior leadership team.



MPLS and Ethernet World Congress (Paris) & OFC NFOEC (Los Angeles)

Paris February 7-10, 2012
Los Angeles March 6-8, 2012

Marben will exhibit at the next MPLS World Congress (February 7-10, 2012 - Paris) the world's largest exhibition dedicated to MPLS telecom industry and at the OFC/NFOEC (March 6-8, 2012 - Los Angeles) the world's leading event for advancing optical solutions.

Marben will present its Control plane solution for boosting the capacity and significantly increasing the agility of optical cores and MPLS/MPLS-TE networks. This year Marben will demonstrate interoperability of OIF E-NNI for the next generation OTN v3. Marben will also significantly enlarge its product portfolio with protocols addressing the virtualization and the unified control plane.

Visit our Marben booth #204 at MPLS WC or booth #811 at OFC/NFOEC to meet our company representatives and learn more on our product offering.



OIF Interoperability 2012

February 2012

Twelve carriers and vendors, including Marben will unite under the banner of the Optical Internetworking Forum to showcase multi-vendor participation in a multi-carrier environment at OIF Interoperability 2012 -Enabling High-Speed Dynamic Services. The OIF's Networking interoperability test and demonstration will be conducted simultaneously in Europe, Asia and North America. The OIF will showcase multi-vendor data plane and control plane interworking of systems supporting Ethernet Services over OTN in a multi-carrier environment.
See the press release for more information.

A public démonstration of the interoperability test will be on display March 6-8, 2012 at OFC/NFOEC in Los Angeles, CA, OIF Booth #713. Additional information can be found at http://www.oiforum.com/public/OIF_at_OFC2012.html.


MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C++ v6.0 available now!

February 16th, 2012

Marben Products announces the immediate availability of the new release version 6.0 of its MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C++ toolkit.

In addition to version 5.2, the new version 6.0 of the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C++ introduces

  • ASN.1:2008 compliance supporting new types and predefined module,
  • Optimization with a code generated using table driven for constraint checking,
  • New identifiers naming facilities,
  • ASN.1 description update facilities,
  • Opened files streams supported.

For more technical information on those latest enhancements of the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C++, please visit our Web site.

All bugs that have been fixed in this release are listed here. Access is restricted to registered users.

To receive a free evaluation license and test our new MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C++, click here.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.



MARBEN Java Diameter v6.0 released

February 13th, 2012

Marben announces the immediate availability of the new release version 6.0 of its MARBEN Java Diameter. This new version introduces:

  • Proxy role
  • Interface S6a, S6d and S9 support per 3GPP TS 29.272, TS 23.203 and TS 29.215,
  • Release 10 support for Cx, Gx, Gxx, Ro/Rf, Rx, Sh, Zh/Zn/Zpn interfaces,
  • SCTP support solution when Java run time is customized with the support of SCTP.

For more technical information on those latest enhancements of the MARBEN Java Diameter, refers to the MARBEN Java Diameter v6.0 Release Note.

To receive a free evaluation license and test the new MARBEN Java Diameter, click here.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact us at info@marben-products.com.





MARBEN GMPLS v3.4B is now released

February 2012

Marben unveils its new MARBEN GMPLS v3.4B, a new minor release of its acknowledged GMPLS protocols suite.

Control plane features are now on the field, with successful new services e.g. 1:N protection with extra-traffic and autonomic discovery.

The new v3.4B release includes new powerful features such as:

  • a new Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) for control plane discovery,
  • MIB enhancement to the support of the latest GMPLS Sig and TE MIB Drafts,
  • Support OIF E-NNI routing v2.0 support in the MARBEN E-NNI controllers,
  • PCE-P enhancement including support Path-key protection and WDM objects,
  • Support of new OTN label per draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-signaling-g709v3-01,
  • OIF UNI v1R2/v2 Graceful restart as pre-integrated feature.

For more technical information please, visit Marben' dedicated GPMLS web pages.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact Marben at info@marben-products.com.




MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-Java v4.0 available now!

January 6th, 2012

Marben Products announces the immediate availability of the new release version 4.0 of its MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-Java toolkit.

In addition to version 3.0, the new version 4.0 of the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-Java introduces

  • ASN.1:2008 compliance supporting new types and predefined module,
  • Permissive and/or strict constraint checking,
  • Easy copy and compared function during encoding and decoding values,
  • Compilation option for shortening the length of your types names.

For more technical information on those latest enhancements of the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-Java, please visit our Web site.

All bugs that have been fixed in this release are listed here. Access is restricted to registered users.

To receive a free evaluation license and test our new MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-Java, click here.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.



MARBEN LDP for Pseudowire

October 2011

Marben has rebuilt an LDP stack for pseudowire. Complete, scalable, MARBEN LDP for pseudowire targets all equipment vendors that want to follow the requirements of large amount of dynamic pseudowire that are managed as virtual circuits into their packet optical network.

For more technical information on this new MARBEN LDP for pseudowire, please visit our Web site or contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.




Joint EuroNF and ETICS PhD course

October 5th, 2011

Marben Products is addressing the challenges of tomorrow's Internet. As part of the ETICS project which aims to define a new ecosystem for network service providers, Marben Products will participate to the «Economics and Technologies for Intercarrier Services» PhD course from October 17th to 21st 2011 at Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France to promote innovative network management systems.




Marben joins the Broadband Forum to accelerate Networking Innovation and promote control plane for Mobile Backhaul.

October 11, 2011

Marben, today, announced the company has become a member of the Broadband Forum as part of its initiative to further innovation in a new approach to home networking, connected home and IP/MPLS for Mobile Backhaul. As a member of the BBF, Marben will contribute the company's expertise in developing control plane software standards and will provide specific input based on its experience in distributed control plane architectures to help drive the next generation of network evolution in tomorrow's automated networks in Mobile Backhaul.

The Broadband Forum is the central organization driving broadband wireline solutions and empowering converged packet networks worldwide to better meet the needs of vendors, service providers and their customers. The Broadband Forum develops multi-service broadband packet networking specifications addressing interoperability, architecture and management, its work enables home, business and converged broadband services, encompassing customer, access and backbone networks.

Marben provides the best-of-breed MPLS/GMPLS control plane suite, with the highest quality and most comprehensive product roadmap. By deploying products built on MARBEN network protocols software, equipment vendors can trust in the most advanced services for the management of its transport equipment.




FP7 ETICS project - 2011-2013

July 2011

Marben is part of the three year ETICS project with 18 other Telco companies and universities. ETICS project is a EU FP7 funded project among the future internet cluster. ETICS aims creating a new ecosystem of innovative QoS-enabled interconnection models between Network Service Providers allowing for a fair distribution of revenue shares among all the actors of the service delivery value-chain. Thanks to ETICS, Marben will analyze, specify and implement new network control, management and service plane technologies for the automated end-to-end QoS-enabled service delivery across heterogeneous carrier networks. Marben will demonstrate and test the effectiveness of network service creation, activation, monitoring and billing for interconnected fixed and mobile operator networks and, therefore, increase the economic efficiency of transport infrastructures.


MARBEN GMPLS v3.4 is now released

June 2011

Marben unveils its MARBEN GMPLS v3.4, the new release of its acknowledged networking protocols suite. This new release offers new features that have been carefully selected among customers' requests for additional reliability and convenience. It also includes the latest Multi layer capabilities from CCAMP IETF working group.

This release supports the following main features:

  • GMPLS-UNI profile as per RFC4208,
  • MRN/MLN routing and signaling for Hybrid nodes as per RFC6001,
  • WSON support as per draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-g-694-lambda-labels-03,
  • CP to MP resources synchronization as per RFC5852,
  • GMPLS graceful restart in case of several nodes restart as per RFC5063.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.




TIA 2011

Dallas, US, May 18-20, 2011

Marben will be exhibiting at the new edition of the TIA tradeshow, TIA 2011 in Gaylord Texan, Dallas, Texas. Marben will demonstrate its Control plane solution for the agility of optical core but also for the flexibility of the current statically provisioned MPLS-TP networks.

See all sales representatives and business developers at Marben booth #701. Book a meeting at sales@marben-products.com.




MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C v5.0 available now!

May 2011

Marben Products announces the immediate availability of the new release version 5.0 of its MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C toolkit.

In addition to version 4.1, the new version 5.0 of the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C introduces

  • ASN.1:2008 compliance supporting new types and predefined module,
  • New features for the time optimized runtime (code generation technology):
    • constraint checking
    • huge integer types
    • deletion of all dynamic memory allocations
  • Easy copy and compare function during encoding and decoding values.

For more technical information on those latest enhancements of the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C, please visit our Web site.

All bugs that have been fixed in this release are listed here. Access is restricted to registered users.

To receive a free evaluation license and test our new MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C, click here.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.




Free Online ASN.1 Decoder available now!

May 2011

Marben Products announces the immediate availability of a free online decoding service on its website. In addition to our ASN.1 software development kits for C, C++ and Java and the ASN.1 Value Editor, we now offer an online decoding of ASN.1 values for frequently used ASN.1 syntaxes in UMTS/LTE (RRC, NBAP, S1AP, X2AP.), intelligent networks (TCAP/MAP) and roaming data (TAP3). You simply specify the ASN.1 syntax to be used together with an ASN.1 value in binary (raw) or hexadecimal format and the online decoder return your value in XML format.

Available here!




6th Celtic-Plus Event 2011

March 29-30, 2011

Marben will demonstrate its Ethernet over WDM unified GMPLS control plane in the scope of the closing of the Celtic Tiger2 project. Expert control plane engineers will be glad to answer your technical questions in regards of such R&D project that has been selected for Celtic awards.

Visit Marben representatives on Tiger2 stand in Heidelberg, Germany.




Mobile World Congress

Barcelona, February 14-17, 2011

Marben Products will exhibit at the next Mobile World Congress (February 14-17, 2011 Barcelona) the world's largest exhibition for the wireless and telecom industry.

At MWC 2011, Marben will present its Control plane solution for boosting the capacity and significantly increasing the agility of optical core and mobile backhaul networks and its ASN.1 tools for wireless networks (3G UMTS, 4G LTE) and for future intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Marben will also present the last evolution of its Diameter AAA solution to quickly connect your application to IMS and NGN control plane.

In partnership with Microtronix, Marben will demonstrate how the MARBEN CDR Collection product used in conjunction with a Microtronix X.25-TCP-IP Access 4000 gateway provides a cost-effective solution to collect your CDRs from Alcatel E10, Siemens EWSD, Ericsson Axe 10, Lucent 5ESS, Nortel DMS 200, Nokia DS200 through a TCP-IP backbone network.

Visit our Marben Products booth #2D03 (Hall 2) at MWC 2011 to meet our company representatives and learn more on our product offering.




Marben at Futurecom

Săo Paulo, October 25-28, 2010

Marben Products will exhibit at the next Futurecom (October 25-28, 2010 Săo Paulo) the largest and most qualified Event of the Telecommunications and Information Technology Sector in Latin America. At Futurecom, Marben will present how its GMPLS control plane solution boosts the capacity of transport networks and can significantly increase the agility of optical core networks through multiple domains and regions and its interoperability based on E-NNI 2.0. Marben will bring a dedicated focus on MPLS-TP control plane for mobile backhaul networks. Marben will also present its cost effective solution for the migration of CDRs collection over X.25 to TCP/IP.

Visit our Marben Products booth #A28 at Futurecom to meet our company representatives and learn more on our product offering including IMS Diameter, ASN.1 and XML Optimization, full OSI protocols and X.25 to TCP/IP Gateway.




Marben at Expocomm China 2010

Beijing, October 11-15, 2010

Marben Products will exhibit at the next Expocomm China (October 11-15, 2010 Beijing) the largest telecom industry event in Asia with more than 550 exhibiting companies from 20 nations and more than 190,000 attendees from China and throughout the Pacific Rim. At Expocomm China, Marben will present how its GMPLS control plane solution boosts the capacity of transport networks and can significantly increase the agility of optical core networks through multiple domains and regions and its interoperability based on E-NNI 2.0. Marben will bring a dedicated focus on MPLS-TP control plane for mobile backhaul networks.

Visit our Marben Products booth #1A50 at Expocomm China to meet our company representatives and learn more on our product offering including IMS Diameter, ASN.1 and XML Optimization, full OSI protocols and X.25 to TCP/IP Gateway.




C++ Diameter v5.0 and Java Diameter v3.0 released

September 2010

Marben Products announces the immediate availability of two new major releases of its MARBEN Diameter AAA toolkit for the IMS/LTE control plane and NGN:

  • MARBEN C++ Diameter v5.0
  • MARBEN Java Diameter v3.0

With the addition of 3GPP Zpn, 3GPP Gxx and Ericsson SCAP Diameter interfaces available in both C++ and Java, these new releases further extends AAA IMS coverage of the MARBEN Diameter tool kit. MARBEN Diameter's main Diameter 3GPP interfaces have also been updated to comply with 3GPP's network Release 8 to cope with the requirements of LTE.
MARBEN Diameter now supports more than 20 Diameter interfaces which makes it a market leader in terms of capabilities to answer AAA and provisioning requirements of 3GPP (IMS & EPS in LTE), 3GPP2, TISPAN architectures.
These releases also bring significant API enhancements making development of Diameter applications simpler and faster than ever before.

Details on these latest releases are available in MARBEN C++ Diameter v5.0 Release Notes or in MARBEN Java Diameter v3.0 Release Notes.

Marben Diameter stacks continue to feature their efficient multicore/multiprocessor core establishing MARBEN Diameter as a future proof solution capable of sustaining the growing AAA traffic in the control plane of Next Generation Networks.

For more technical information please visit our dedicated web pages or download the product brochure.

To discover all the new capabilities of the MARBEN Diameter, please download a free evaluation version.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.




Marben at Future Networks & Mobile Summit 2010

June 16-18, 2010

Marben demonstrates an Ethernet over WDM unified GMPLS control plane in the scope of the Celtic Tiger2 project and highlights the benefits of GMPLS and PCE for multi-layer and multi-domain networks.

Please have a look to the brochure for a detailed description of the demonstration.

Visit our Marben Products stand at Future Networks & Mobile Summit 2010 to meet our company representatives and learn more.




MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C v4.1 and ASNSDK TCE-C++ v5.2 available now!

May 2010

Marben Products announces the immediate availability of the new minor releases version 4.1 of its MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C and version 5.2 of its MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C++ toolkits.

In addition to version 4.0, the new version 4.1 of the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C introduces

  • a new TCE-C API without dynamic memory allocations, and
  • huge integer support.

For more technical information on those latest enhancements of the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C, please visit our Web site.

The new minor release version 5.2 of the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C++ includes mainly some bugs fixing.

Additionally, MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C v4.1 and TCE-C++ v5.2 releases are fully compatible. Both releases can be used together in the same application.

To receive a free evaluation license and test our new MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C or MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C++, click here.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.




Marben at IEEE NOMS

April 19-23, 2010

Marben will jointly present an architecture for next-generation inter-domain service delivery with Alcatel Bell Labs at the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium NOMS2010.

This architecture has been implemented and validated thanks to a large demonstration platform that has embedded advanced Marben software. It demonstrates the interest and the benefit of both PCE and GMPLS for such advanced inter-domain service delivery.




Marben writes on IMS testing in European Communications

March 2010

IMS open standards are a tremendous opportunity for carriers to leverage multivendor market offers to reduce costs for building their IMS network and getting a richer services portfolio. However, the resulting heterogeneity and the open modular architecture of IMS results in a complexity which needs to be carefully addressed all along the implementation of IMS. Testing as it is the last step to validate products or whole networks is then a key challenge in the successful roll out of IMS networks and delivery of multimedia services.

Marben Products released its HSS Emulator to help carriers and equipment vendors to answer this testing challenge. Aimed at being used at the early stage of development by equipment manufacturers, as well as in the latest stages of deployment at carriers, HSS Emulator is a tool designed to reduce development and deployment of IMS services and networks. Lightweight and easy to use, it secures your development and deployment by enabling you to set up an IMS testing infra-structure for a small investment and operation cost.

Read more on how emulator tools like HSS Emulator can help overcome the IMS testing complexity in European Communications.




Mobile World Congress

Barcelona, February 15-18, 2010

Marben Products will exhibit at the next Mobile World Congress (February 15-18, 2010 – Barcelona) the world's largest exhibition for the wireless and telecom industry.

At MWC 2010, Marben will present its new HSS Emulator, a powerful and cost effective tool for IMS network and services testing, and its new solutions for LTE network. Marben will also demonstrate how its control plane solution can boost the capacity and can significantly increase the agility of optical core and mobile backhaul networks.

Visit our Marben Products booth #2H71 (Hall 2) at MWC 2010 to meet our company representatives and learn more on our product offering.




Marben Products in ETICS

January 2010

Marben has been elected to contribute to the new ETICS (Economics and Technologies for Inter-Carrier Services) project under the call FP7 ICT 1.1. Network for the future.

The major challenge for future deployments lies in having an effective collaboration between often competitive providers allowing dynamic and scalable solutions, while preserving confidentiality on providers assets. This ETICS project aspires to highly impact the technical leadership of the participating partners that includes larger European carriers - e.g. Deutsch Telekom, France Telecom, Telefonica, Telenor and British Telecom and large equipment vendors who will be in position to drive the roadmaps and standards for the future multi-service and multi-actors networks.

Part of such mission is to ensure a coordinated network control to ensure the expected QoS across Heterogeneous networks. Marben and its partners will propose evolutions in routing protocols, constrained-path computation, congestion control mechanisms and will leverage on existing standards (e.g. GMPLS, PCE, PCN) to design automated network management processes providing QoS interconnections.



C++ Diameter v4.0 and Java Diameter v2.0 released

December 2009

Marben Products announces the immediate availability of two new major releases of its MARBEN Diameter AAA toolkit for the IMS control plane and NGN:

  • MARBEN C++ Diameter v4.0
  • MARBEN Java Diameter v2.0

With the addition of the Dx, Dh, Zh, Zn, Dz, Px, Ph, Gx, Gy, Rx, Tx Diameter interfaces available in both C++ and Java, these new releases further extends AAA IMS coverage of the MARBEN Diameter tool kit.
MARBEN Diameter now supports more than 20 Diameter interfaces which makes it a market leader in terms of capabilities to answer AAA requirement of 3GPP (IMS & EPS), 3GPP2, TISPAN architectures.
These releases also bring significant performances and multicore/multiprocessor scalability improvements establishing MARBEN Diameter as a future proof solution capable of sustaining the growing AAA traffic in the control plane of Next Generation Networks.

For more technical information please visit our dedicated web pages or download the product brochure.

To discover all the new capabilities of the MARBEN Diameter, please download a free evaluation version.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.




Chunghwa Telecom use case

November 2009

Chunghwa Telecom has selected MARBEN GMPLS Emulator to setup optical Switch Connections and Switch Permanent Connections inside in its next generation networks. Chunghwa telecom uses MARBEN GMPLS Emulator to stress its GMPLS-enabled equipment by injecting large number of SC on its network and evaluate potential bottlenecks on its transport plane topology.



Marben Products launching HSS Emulator

October 2009

Marben Products is proud to announce a new product in its IMS Solutions product line: MARBEN HSS Emulator.

HSS is a key piece of the IMS architecture. Being the central repository of the subscriber identity and profile, no access and no service can be delivered without an HSS. It is therefore critical that all authentication and subscriber data access and modification are carefully tested.

MARBEN HSS Emulator is an easy to learn, low foot print, run anywhere test tool empowering IMS and NGN service developers and integrators with an IMS authentication and user context storage function at a fraction of the cost on a commercial HSS. In addition, MARBEN HSS Emulator brings test and debug capabilities that allow them to monitor, test and debug all service activities related to authentication, user profile manipulation.

MARBEN HSS Emulator compliance to standards insures developers test their service in real conditions and get proof of adequate behaviour. MARBEN HSS Emulator is flexible and its testing capabilities makes it suitable for both isolated unit or component testing as well as large scale testing simulating near real use of the service.

For more technical information please visit our dedicated web pages or download the product brochure.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.


ITU Telecom World 2009 & Supercomm 2009

Geneva, October 5-9, 2009
Chicago, October 21-23, 2009

Marben Products will exhibit at the next ITU Telecom World (October 5-9, 2009 - Geneva) and Supercomm 2009 (October 21-23, 2009 Chicago), the two world class shows spanning the entire telecommunication industry and information communication technology (ICT) sector.

Marben Products will demonstrate its active contribution to broadband open networking by showcasing its GMPLS offer for the control plane of optical core and backhaul networks. In the wireless domain, Marben Products will present its ASN.1 suite of products for LTE and its Diameter solution, the AAA control plane enabler for IMS multimedia broadband services.

Marben Products will also demonstrate its forthcoming HSS Simulator product. Come and watch the demo.

Visit our Marben Products booth #2570 (Hall 2) at ITU Telecom World and booth #3410 at Supercomm 2009 to meet our company representatives and learn more on our product offering.




MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor v2.2 available now!

September 2009

Marben Products announces the immediate availability of the new minor release version 2.2 of its MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor.

The MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor is a user friendly graphical tool which allows you to rapidly decode, create, edit, modify and encode any ASN.1 values without developing any software. The MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor can process any ASN.1 descriptions due to its embedded compiler and also includes ready-to-use standard ASN.1 descriptions coming from various standardization organizations such as 3GPP, ETSI, ITU-T, ECMA, IETF and NGTP.

The features which have been added to this new release are:

  • The MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor supports now the copy/paste feature with external text-based applications like mail clients, text editors and so on. ASN.1 values can easily be copied from the ASN.1 Value Editor and pasted in XML format in other applications.
  • Erroneous ASN.1 values were not shown in a decoded format; only the hexadecimal format of the erroneous was shown. The ASN.1 Value Editor now displays erroneous ASN.1 values in a decoded format.
  • ASN.1 values are automatically completely expanded. Visualisation of an ASN.1 value is reduced to a minimum of mouse clicks.
  • On Windows, the ASN.1 Value Editor is now started by using an executable file. It can now easily be found in and managed with the task manager

In addition to the existing ASN.1 descriptions, the new version v2.2 includes an update of various 3GPP ASN.1 descriptions:

  • RRC, 3GPP TS 25.331, TS 36.331
  • S1AP, 3GPP TS 36.413
  • X2AP, 3GPP TS 36.423
  • NBAP, 3GPP TS 25.433
  • PCAP, 3GPP TS 25.453
  • RANAP, 3GPP TS 25.413
  • RNSAP, 3GPP TS 25.423
  • ...

The MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor is available in different editions and with a different set of features; all editions support the BER, DER, PER (aligned and unaligned) and XER (basic and canonical) encoding rules:

  • The Professional Edition has no limitations. Files having several thousands and millions of values, like CDR files, can be created, decoded, modified and encoded. TAP3 files are supported.
  • The Viewer Edition allows decoding and visualizing one message. Viewer Edition doesn't allow ASN.1 encoding, TAP3 and CDR analysis facilities.

For more technical information on those latest enhancements of the MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor v2.2, please visit our Web site.

To discover all the new valuable capabilities of the MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor, please download a free evaluation version.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.


Marben Products at Broadband World Forum Europe 2009

Paris, September 7-9, 2009

Marben Products will exhibit at the Broadband World Forum Europe 2009 (September 7-9, 2009 - Paris, France)

Marben Products will demonstrate interdomain bandwidth management based on GMPLS control plane technology. This demo structured as a tutorial show how real-time automatic interdomain service activation is achieved thanks to latest IETF standard extension implemented by MARBEN GMPLS software.

Visit our Marben Products booth space #116 to meet our company representatives and learn more on our product offering.


MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C++ v5.1 available now!

July 2009

Marben Products announces the immediate availability of the new minor release version 5.1 of its MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C++ toolkit.

With a new mechanism for the optimization of resource allocations, this new v5.1 version fits perfectly the Long Term Evolution (LTE) Radio Access Network interfaces requirements. It uses the standard integer type for most of the integer values and the long integer types only where needed.

For more technical information on those latest enhancements of the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C++, please visit our Web site.

To download a free evaluation license of our new MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C++, click here.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.


Marben Products introducing Full Java Diameter

July 2009

Acknowledging the emergence of Java in telecom applications, Marben Products was one of the first stack vendor to provide a Diameter implementation offering Java APIs. A few years later, the use of Java in mission critical telecom equipment software is established and continues to grow.

Marben Products goes one step further in its commitment to the Java language and unveils MARBEN Java Diameter v1.0, a full Java implementation of its recognized Diameter stack. Adding native Java implementation to its JAIN SIP like Java interface, MARBEN Java Diameter combines ease of use to full Java integration to maximize development agility.

The new MARBEN Java Diameter v1.0 features:

  • Diameter message parser based on an XML dictionary
  • JAIN SIP like APIs for the supported Diameter interfaces
  • Support for High Availability
  • Stack life cycle management
  • Detailed multi level log and trace facility
  • Straightforward access to statistics through MBeans

From a protocol perspective MARBEN Java Diameter v1.0 supports:

  • Diameter Base protocol as per RFC 3588
  • Credit Control Application (RFC 4006)
  • 3GPP Rf and Ro interfaces for off line and online charging
  • 3GPP Cx and Sh interfaces for Authentication and Authorization
  • 3GPP Rx interface for Policy rules management

Feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com for any additional information


MARBEN Diameter v3.0 released

July 2009

Marben Products announces the immediate availability of the v3.0 new major release of its MARBEN Diameter AAA toolkit for the IMS control plane and NGN.

This new major release extends the support for converged networks with the addition of the TISPAN e4 interface and adds Diameter agent capabilities with the support of the Relay/Redirect function of the Diameter base protocol.
MARBEN Diameter v3.0 also enhances the ease and capabilities of integration in carrier grade and High Availability environments by introducing stack life cycle management. The stack life cycle management gives users a fine grained control over the stack and Diameter application processing.

For more technical information please visit our dedicated web pages or download the product brochure.

To discover all the new capabilities of the MARBEN Diameter, please download a free evaluation version.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.


Marben Products at OIF's Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration 2009

Seven of the world's largest telecommunications companies will unite under the banner of the Optical Internetworking Forum to showcase multi-vendor interoperability in a multi-carrier environment at the OIF's Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration - Enabling Broadband On-Demand Services. The OIF's fourth worldwide interoperability test and demonstration will be conducted simultaneously in China, Japan, France, Germany, Italy and the United States.
The event highlights network-interoperable solutions among participating vendors, including Marben Products, employing OIF UNI 2.0 and E-NNI implementation agreements. The demo addresses Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) Services over multiple, control plane-enabled intelligent optical core networks with technologies ranging from Layer 2 transport to OTN.

OIF press release


MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C v4.0 available now!

March 2009

Marben Products announces the immediate availability of the new major release version 4.0 of its MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C toolkit.

In addition to version 3.0, this new version contains a new PER encoding/decoding engine using the code generation technology. Compared to the existing table driven technology, code generation technology can significantly increase performance.

With a new mechanism for the optimization of resource allocations, this new v4.0 version fits perfectly the Long Term Evolution (LTE) Radio Access Network interfaces requirements.

For more technical information on those latest enhancements of the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C, please visit our Web site.

To receive a free evaluation license and test our new MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C, click here.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.


MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor v2.1 available now!

March 2009

Marben Products announces the immediate availability of the new minor release version 2.1 of its MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor.

The MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor is an easy-to-use graphical tool which allows you to rapidly decode, create, edit, modify and encode any ASN.1 values without developing any software. In a few clicks, you can easily create or visualize any ASN.1 value in a user-friendly format.

The MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor includes precompiled/ready-to-use standard ASN.1 descriptions coming from various standardization organizations such as 3GPP, ETSI, ITU-T, ECMA and IETF. In addition to the existing ASN.1 descriptions, the new version v2.1 includes an update of various 3GPP ASN.1 descriptions, in particular for Long Term Evolution (LTE):

  • RRC, 3GPP TS 36.331
  • S1AP, 3GPP TS 36.413
  • X2AP, 3GPP TS 36.423

Further, it is now available in different editions and with a different set of features. All editions support the BER, DER, PER (aligned and unaligned) and XER (basic and canonical) encoding rules.

  • The Professional Edition has no limitations. Files having several thousands and millions of values, like CDR files, can be created, decoded, modified and encoded.
  • The Basic Edition allows to process only one value. If a file contains more than one value, only the first value is decoded. The ASN.1 value can then be modified and encoded. The ASN.1 value creation is also limited to one value. TAP3 decoding and encoding is not available in the Basic Edition.

For more technical information on those latest enhancements of the MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor v2.1, please visit our Web site.

To discover all the new valuable capabilities of the MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor, please download a free evaluation version.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.


Mobile World congress &CTIA Wireless 2009

Barcelona, February 16-19, 2009
Las Vegas, April 1-3, 2009

Marben Products will exhibit at the next Mobile World Congress (February 16-19, 2009 – Barcelona) and CTIA Wireless 2009 (April 1-3, 2009 – Las Vegas), the two world's largest exhibitions for the wireless and telecom industry.
Marben Products will present the new enhancements of its highly robust and efficient AAA Diameter protocol line of products for IMS, its GMPLS control plane solution for next generation networks and its complete ASN.1 tools offer for LTE.

Visit our Marben Products booth #2.1A16 (Hall 2 level 1) at MWC and booth #8705 at CTIA to meet our company representatives and learn more on our product offering.




MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2009

Paris, February 10-13, 2009

Marben Products will be at MPLS & Ethernet World Congress (February 10-13, 2009 - Paris) presenting its agnostic MARBEN GMPLS protocols software stack and more particularly its new advanced MARBEN PCE protocol implementation.
Marben Products will demonstrate the PCE cooperation for interdomain or inter-carrier services and its GELS Control plane.

Visit us at booth #124 to learn more.




MARBEN Diameter goes v2.0

November 2008

Marben Products unveils MARBEN Diameter v2.0, a new major release of its acknowledged IP multimedia Subsystem (IMS) AAA product.

MARBEN Diameter v2.0 release brings more IMS up-to-date features:

  • with the addition of 3GPP release 7 support, MARBEN Diameter covers the full range of deployed 3GPP releases,
  • support for convergence and converged network with 3 new 3GPP and TISPAN interfaces: Gq, Gq' and e2. With these new interfaces MARBEN Diameter empowers its users with policy functions and extends IMS reach to wireline networks.
  • Interoperability improvements following interoperability tests and field operation.
This release is available on the most widely used UNIX platforms operating telecom services, namely RedHat 5.0, Solaris 9 and 10, HP-UX 11.23. It is also available on Windows for handy development or operation.

For more technical information please visit our dedicated web pages or download the product brochure

To test the new MARBEN Diameter features, ask for a free evaluation license here.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.




Marben Products at MPLS2008: Isocore Interop testing

October 23, 2008

For the first time in Fall 2008, GMPLS controlled Ethernet Label Switching has been introduced in the LEC interoperability testing. Ethernet has been dominant in the enterprise and data network for a long time. Wide-scale MAN and WAN deployments is made possible with the Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) and the new IEEE 802.1Qay Provider Backbone Bridge - Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) amendments of the Ethernet bridging standard. Operators are considering the use of PBB-TE connection oriented Ethernet in access and aggregation networks. It seems a natural step to use GMPLS to provision and reconfigure PBB-TE connections in Ethernet networks.

Marben Products once again successfully participated in the Isocore interop testing around next generation Carrier Grade Ethernet. This event took place in the Isocore Lab October 23, 2008 in front of major equipment vendors.

Marben Products successfully created LSPs through different network elements. All combinations of initiating and terminating nodes were used to successfully create bidirectional LSPs. The new Ethernet Traffic Parameter SENDER_TSPEC object was used to specify distinct bandwidth requirements for multiple CoS and OAM parameters were signalled in LSP_ATTRIBUTES object of some of the PATH messages. Full path rerouting was even demonstrated by simulating data plane failure on the egress node.

For more information, please refer to Results of MPLS2008 Public Interoperability Demo and Ericsson in next generation Ethernet live demo, Washington papers.




MARBEN OSIAM-GMPLS v3.3 is now released

June 2008

Marben Products unveils MARBEN OSIAM-GMPLS v3.3, a new minor release of its acknowledged networking protocols suite.

Control plane features are now on the field, with successful new services and major interop references.

The new v1.1 release offers new powerful features such as:

  • OIF UNI v1. 0- V2.0 / E-NNI Controllers v1.0 as pre-integrated OIF interfaces
  • Extensions of the High Availability interface to the whole LSP database which conforms to the latest SAF checkpoint spec interface.
  • MIB enhancement to the support of the latest TE MIB Draft.
  • PCE-P enhancement including support XRO, OF and interlayer IETF drafts

For more technical information please visit our dedicated web pages.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.




NXTcomm08

Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas NV, June 16-19, 2008

Marben Products will be at NXTcomm08, to unveil its latest development on:

Visit Marben Products at booth #SU5802 to learn more.




iPOP2008

Tokyo, June 5-6, 2008

Marben Products will be at iPOP2008 in Tokyo presenting its latest enhancements of its MARBEN GMPLS protocols software stack and its advanced MARBEN PCE protocol implementation.

Marben Products will highlight its recent works on PCE for Carrier grade Ethernet and WSON and will present its advanced solution for PointToMultiPoint path computation in the PCE architecture in combination with Aria Networks.




MARBEN PCE v1.0 is now released

February 2008

Marben Products unveils the first commercial software implementation of Path Computation Element communication protocol (PCECP). PCE protocol is standardized at IETF. PCE architecture solves many issues as using multi constraints complex path computation algorithms, global concurrency optimization or inter-domain routing. This PCE reliable implementation enables a quick and interoperable implementation of a PCE server or PCC functions in any MSxP equipment. It saves your time to develop differentiating features.

Based on our MPLS/GMPLS offer, MARBEN PCE is either a standalone product or just an additional brick inside your MARBEN GMPLS suite. Traffic Engineering protocols and database and Path computation library could also be provided to help you to build the PCE you want for your network.

To discover all the capabilities and features of the MARBEN PCE, please browse the PCE datasheet or ask for technical documents at sales@marben-products.com.




February 11-14, 2008 - Mobile World Congress 2008 - Barcelona

Marben Products will be present at the Mobile World Congress, the world premier trade show for mobile and NGN industry, taking place 11-14 February 2008 in Barcelona.

Marben Products will show off MARBEN Diameter its flagship AAA solution for 3G-4G Mobile Networks, NGN and IP Multimedia Subsystem. MARBEN Diameter is the solution for quickly integrating Charging and Authentication in your IMS equipments or applications and thus rapidly enter the booming IMS market.

Marben Products will also demonstrate its MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor which allows easy and graphical visualization and edition of any ASN.1 data values. MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor is a companion tool of choice for developers that have to deal with ASN.1 encoded data or OSS/BSS people handling large amount of data specified in ASN.1 like TAP3 roaming, CDRs files.

Visit our Marben Products booth #2.1A16 (Hall 2 level 1) to meet our company representatives and learn more on our product offering.




MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2008

Paris, February 5-8, 2008

Marben Products will be at MPLS & Ethernet World Congress in Paris presenting the MARBEN GMPLS protocols software stack and more particularly its new advanced MARBEN PCE protocol implementation.
Marben Products and Aria Network will demonstrate the interest of PCE for global concurrent optimization.

Visit us at booth #125 to learn more.


November 2007 - MARBEN Diameter v1.1 is now released

Marben Products unveils MARBEN Diameter v1.1, a new version of its acknowledged AAA product for IMS.

IMS acceptance is growing fast and IMS architecture deployment move from limited prototypes to commercial service openings. This new MARBEN Diameter release brings technical and functional enhancements required by operation of revenue-generating services in carrier networks.

The new v1.1 release introduces a rich set of new features:

  • The 3GPP Cx/Dx interfaces for allowing CSCF to HSS Authentication/Authorization dialog.
  • An extension of its real time charging capability by fully supporting the Credit Control Application (RFC 4006) and the possibility of mixing event based and session based charging. This new Credit Control Application allows authenticating to an AAA authentication server and is exposed through a dedicated API.
  • An update to 3GPP release 6 for all supported interfaces.
  • The support for High Availability active/standby mode of operation. MARBEN Diameter HA support has been designed to easily fit in already existing customer HA framework. MARBEN Diameter can be integrated in existing customer HA environment or application using the HA framework in place and without imposing any constraints for HA operation.
  • Performance enhancement and scalability with the support of multithreading and multiprocessing environment.
  • A new level of security by supporting IPsec and TLS to secure peer-to-peer communication.
  • Availability on more platforms: HP-UX 11i v1&v2 for PA-RISC, Solaris 10 for x86 64 bits are added to the already supported RedHat 4.0 and Solaris 9&10 for SPARC. All these systems are now supported in both 64 and 32 bits mode.
For more technical information on the latest enhancements of MARBEN Diameter, please visit the product datasheet.

To test the new MARBEN Diameter features, ask for a free evaluation license here.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.




IMS Forum Plugfest III

Durham, New Hampshire, October 15-19, 2007

Marben Products Proves Vendor Interoperability at IMS Plugfest III Event

Marben Products proved vendor compatibility at the IMS Forum's IMS Plugfest™ III interoperability test event held October 15-19 at IMS Interoperability Lab at UNH.
Marben Products tested its MARBEN Diameter stack embedded in a newly developed HSS simulator. Through the HSS Simulator, MARBEN Diameter has successfully tested full implementation of the Cx and Sh Diameter interfaces against participants CSCF's, applications servers and other testing equipment.

Refer to Press Release for details.




IMS Forum Plugfest III

Durham, New Hampshire, October 15-19, 2007

Marben Products to participate in IMS Plugfest III

Marben Products, an affiliate of NE Technologies, reasserts its commitment to IMS and its standards by participating in the third IMS PlugFest, the IMS interoperability test event organized by the IMS Forum and the Interoperability Laboratory of the University of New Hampshire (UNH-IOL)

As IMS momentum increases, the latest PlugFest III event continues to expand its scope and level of testing. This event will cover network level testing, complex and up-to-date IMS services like Fix Mobile Convergence Call, presence services, IP PBX, as well as revenue generating services like IPTV.

At the heart of the IMS network, Marben Products will be providing an HSS built around its leading Diameter technology, to prove its adaptability and interoperability capabilities with a wide range of equipment vendors in near real IMS network environment and near real customer use case scenarios.

MARBEN Diameter enables IMS software or equipment developers to reduce costs and go-to-market time of their products. Participation to PlugFest III and passing its extensive and acknowledged test suite will show that such valuable cost reductions and time savings extend all the way to the deployment and operation phases of IMS projects.

See IMS Plugfest web site for details and testing event.




ECOC 2007

Berlin, September 16-20, 2007

Marben Products will be at ECOC 2007 presenting the MARBEN Products and more particularly its solutions for optical control plane.

Visit us at booth #17009 to learn more.


Marben Products at OIF's Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration 2007



Marben Products will participate in the OIF’s 2007 Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration - On-Demand Ethernet Services. The Forum's third worldwide interoperability test and demonstration will be conducted simultaneously in China, Japan, France, Germany, Italy and the United States.
The demonstration will highlight network-interoperable solutions among participating vendors employing OIF implementation agreements and will address UNI Ethernet Private Line (EPL) Services with support over SONET/SDH core networks. A public demonstration of the event will be on display September 17-19 at ECOC 2007 in Berlin, OIF Booth #17085. Additional information can be found at http://www.oiforum.com/public/Networking_Demo_2007.html.




June 19-21, 2007 - NXTcomm 2007: Chicago, Illinois USA



NE Technologies will be at NXTcomm, presenting the Marben Products.

NE Technologies will show off Marben Products signaling, routing and AAA solutions for Next Generation Networks (NGN) and IP Multimedia Subsystem:

  • MARBEN GMPLS, the state-of-the-art GMPLS solution for your optical network control plane,
  • MARBEN Diameter, the Charging and Authentication solution for your IMS equipments and applications.

Visit NE Technologies Inc. booth #3278 to learn more.




May 2007 - MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor v2.0 available now !



Atos Origin announces the immediate availability of the new major release version 2.0 of its MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor. In addition to version 1.1, this new version allows to decode/encode any large ASN.1 encoded files containing one or several messages such as ASN.1 CDRs files. Messages in the file can be concatenated or organized in blocks with padding bytes.

The product offers a user-friendly graphical interface to browse and edit any message within the file. New capabilities such as Find/Replace, Filter, Insert/Delete, Copy/Paste and creation of random values are now available.

In a few clicks, you can easily create or visualize in a user-friendly format all the messages contained in an ASN.1 encoded file. With all the powerful features now offered by the ASN.1 Value Editor, you can easily locate erroneous messages within the input file and perform the appropriate modifications/corrections.

This new version also includes pre-compiled/ready-to-use standard ASN.1 descriptions coming from various standardization organizations such as 3GPP, ETSI, ITU-T, ECMA and IETF.

MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor is the essential tool for speeding up the integration/validation of your ASN.1 based application and the processing of any ASN.1 encoded file!

For more technical information on those latest enhancements of MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor v2.0, please visit our Web site.

To discover all the new valuable capabilities of the MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor, please download a free evaluation version.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.




May 2007 - Atos Origin launches three major releases of its MARBEN ASNSDK ASN.1 tools



Atos Origin announces the immediate availability of three major releases of its MARBEN ASNSDK ASN.1 tools: TCE-C v3.0, TCE-C++ v5.0 and TCE-Java v3.0. In addition to the ASN.1:2002 conformance, these new major releases bring a user-friendly ASN.1 compiler graphical user interface and some additional features to help debug an ASN.1 erroneous encoded data and to handle the ASN.1 default values on the different programming interfaces.

The TCE-C++ v5.0 now provides copy and compare operators for each C++ class generated by the ASN.1 compiler.

The TCE-Java v3.0 offers a new ASN.1 "SAX-like" (similar to an XML SAX) programming interface. The user can define a number of callback methods that will be called when events occur during asn.1 decoding. The Generic Java runtime has also been enhanced to support direct access to ASN.1 values using textual identification.

For more technical information on the latest enhancements of MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C, TCE-C++ and TCE-Java, please visit our Web site.

To download a free evaluation license and test our new product releases, click here.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.




February 2007 - MARBEN Diameter selected by Oracle for OCMS



Oracle has selected MARBEN Diameter for its Carrier-Grade Oracle(R) Communication and Mobility Server.
With full support of the IETF Diameter RFCs as well as the 3GPP interfaces, MARBEN Diameter is the turnkey solution for service delivery platforms requiring Diameter connectivity.




January 29 - February 2, 2007 - IETF Diameter Interoperability Event: Orlando, Florida USA


Atos Origin participates in the IETF Diameter Interoperability Event 2007 in Orlando.

This event will show the capabilities of the MARBEN Diameter product to provide Diameter base protocol and authorization/authentication services through Sh and Ro/Rf 3GPP interfaces and seamlessly to work with other vendors' equipment.




January 15-19, 2007 - IMS Forum Plugfest: Durham, New Hampshire USA


Together with NE Technologies, its american distributor, Atos Origin strengthens the presence of its MARBEN Diameter solution in the IMS north american market.

NE technologies will participate in the IMS interoperability test event organized by the IMS Forum and the Interoperability Laboratory of the University of New Hampshire (UNH-IOL).
This event is focused on proving interoperability of equipment from various vendors in an IMS network in near real conditions of use.

Refer to NE Technologies press release. See also IMS Plugfest web site for details and testing event.




MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor v1.1 - Available now


November 2006

Atos Origin announces the immediate availability of the version 1.1 of its world-class MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor product, an easy- to-use graphical tool, that allows to visual display or handle any ASN.1 data without developing any software. In addition to the v1.0, this new version brings few enhancements in the display of ASN.1 compilation errors and warnings and offers a floating license mechanism, with configurations for one or more simultaneous users. In addition to PC Windows 2000, XP and 2003, the MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor is now available on most of the Unix platforms from Sun Solaris, HP HP-UX, PC Linux RedHat, Fedora, Suse and Mandriva.

For more technical information on those latest enhancements of MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor v1.1, please visit our Web site.

To discover all the valuable capabilities of the MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor, please visit our dedicated web pages and download a free trial evaluation license.

For more information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.




October 11-13, 2006 - IMS Expo 2006: San Diego, California USA


Atos Origin will be present at IMS Expo 2006 with its American distributor, NE Technologies.

Visit booth #920 to discover our MARBEN Diameter, the Charging and Authentication solution for your IMS applications.




MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor - Available now


June 2006

Atos Origin announces the immediate availability of its new world-class MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor product, an easy- to-use graphical tool, that allows you to rapidly decode, create, edit, modify and encode any ASN.1 values without developing any software. In a few clicks, you can easily create or visualize any ASN.1 value in a user-friendly format. No need to be an ASN.1 expert to interpret the data.

As the time to market is crucial for getting a rapid ROI on a software development, the MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor gives you the capital advantage to significantly reduce the integration/validation time and cost of your ASN.1 based application. With the MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor, the development of test scenarios becomes a child's play!

MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor is the essential tool for accelerating the release of your ASN.1 based application!

To discover all the valuable capabilities of the MARBEN ASN.1 Value Editor, please visit our dedicated web pages and download a free trial evaluation license.

For more information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.




June 5-7, 2006 - GLOBALCOMM 2006: Chicago, Illinois USA


Atos Origin will be present at GLOBALCOMM 2006 with its American distributor, NE Technologies.

Visit booth #50079 to discover our MARBEN GMPLS the state-of-the-art GMPLS solution for your optical control plane, and our MARBEN Diameter, the Charging and Authentication solution for your IMS applications.




RSVP Graceful Restart and its extension for GMPLS - Available now


April 2006

Atos Origin announces that its Signaling Development Kit has been enhanced to support RSVP Graceful Restart conformance with the RFC-3473 and its Extensions to GMPLS RSVP Graceful Restart draft.

RSVP Graceful Restart provides the ability to resynchronize its states based on the updates and new RSVP messages “RecoveryPath” received from its RSVP neighbors when data/forwarding plane state can be retained across the restart of the control plane.

This new update completes MARBEN GMPLS Suite to provide the “Best-of-breed” solution for GMPLS.


Coming soon:


MARBEN GMPLS offer will be enriched with controllers on top of the GMPLS development kits to offer a higher level interface and COTS profile specific UNI, GMPLS or ASON applications.




MARBEN Diameter v1.0 - Available now


April 2006

Atos Origin announces the release of its MARBEN Diameter product.
With this product Atos Origin opens its charging data collection line of products on the IMS market. With this first version Atos Origin goal is to cover most of the AAA needs of the IMS market in authentication/authorization as well as in accounting/charging. With the full support of RFC3588, Sh, Rf and Ro in both client and server role, MARBEN Diameter is suitable for:

  • IMS network equipment like CSCF, HSS,
  • Application Servers and Service Enablers
  • OSS/BSS server/application connecting to IMS network, like offline or real-time mediation/charging systems.

MARBEN Diameter is currently available on RedHat for Intel PC. Other systems are in the works (Solaris, HP-UX, and Suse) and will be released soon.

To discover MARBEN Diameter v1.0 detailed features, please visit our dedicated web pages and ask for a free trial evaluation license.

For more information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.




March 21-22, 2006 - TelecomNEXT 2006: Las Vegas, Nevada


Atos Origin will be present at TelecomNEXT 2006 with its American distributor, NE Technologies.

Visit us on booth #464 to discover our MARBEN OSIAM & GMPLS Products and how they can help you to implement your Sonet/SDH DCN and GMPLS control plane.




February 7-10, 2006 - MPLS World Congress 2006: Paris, France


Atos Origin will be present at MPLS World Congress 2006. Meet us on booth #109.

We will be promoting our Marben products and our expertise in the MPLS/GMPLS and the UNI/E-NNI protocols. We will demonstrate our capabilities as one of the leading actors in Multi-Protocol Label Switching, as well as our expertise in the edition of protocol communication suites for the control and management planes.




MARBEN Diameter product - Announcement


November 2005

Atos Origin is pleased to announce it launches a new product : MARBEN Diameter.

MARBEN Diameter is a high performance and reliable implementation of the IETF Diameter protocol. The Diameter protocol is the next generation AAA protocol selected by 3GPP for its IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) for conveying Authentication, Authorization and Accounting information.

With full support of the IETF Diameter RFCs as well the 3GPP Sh, Rf and Ro interfaces, MARBEN Diameter is a complete solution for IMS equipments or service enablers requiring Diameter connectivity.

MARBEN Diameter is to be released February 2006.

Download the MARBEN Diameter datasheet to discover the product key features.

For additional information, please feel free to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com.




Support of OIF DDRP - Available now


November 2005

Atos Origin announces that its Traffic Engineering development kit has been enhanced to support OIF Specification for Intra-Carrier E-NNI Routing using OSPF. This new update completes MARBEN GMPLS Suite and once again proves how Atos Origin is conforming with major standard in the shortest time.

The DDRP extension as a part of the Traffic Engineering development kit of the MARBEN GMPLS suite well fits into your existing MARBEN GMPLS application.




New OSIAM minor release - Available now


September 2005

Atos Origin announces its new minor release OSIAM v2.7C1.9. This new release completes Atos Origin's GMPLS offer. It provides the handling of the main following feature:

  • LMP Link Management Protocol compliant with the OIF and IETF standard
It includes the Control Channel management [IETF], the Link property Correlation [IETF], the Link connectivity Verification which avoids any mis-wiring [IETF], the Fault localization and correlation and notification [IETF], the Trace monitoring [OIF Sonet ] and OIF UNI Service and neighbor discovery extension [OIF].

This minor release also includes these following enhancements on GMPLS and IP migration offers around DCN protocols :
  • E-NNI Signaling ( ITU-T G.7713 and OIF standard).
  • IS-IS three way handshake ( RFC 3373 ).
  • Full OSPF and RSVP restart.



June 6-9, 2005 - SUPERCOMM 2005: Chicago, Illinois


Atos Origin will be present at SUPERCOMM 2005 with its American distributor, NE Technologies.

Visit us on booth #73025 to discover our MARBEN OSIAM Products and how they can help you to implement your Sonet/SDH DCN and GMPLS control plane.




ASNSDK TCE-C v2.1 and TCE-C++ v4.4 - Available now


March 2005

In addition to the previous release of our ASN.1 tools for C, the TCE-C v2.1 brings many performance enhancements on the C ASN.1 run-times in terms of memory size and CPU time consumption. New memory management customizations have been defined that significantly improve encoder/decoder performances. Several new features have also been developed such as new debugging trace capabilities, new compilation flag to remove source code dealing with unused ASN.1 notation, and other minor evolutions.

The TCE-C++ v4.4 brings several new features such as improvements of the encoding trace capabilities, additional compilation flags to remove source code dealing with unused ASN.1 notation, enhancement of the REAL type support and other minor evolutions.

Both TCE-C v2.1 and TCE-C++ v4.4 ASN.1 run-times now contain comments using Javadoc convention. So, an HTML documentation of the TCE-C and TCE-C++ API can be easily generated using tools that recognize Javadoc comments. Moreover, the TCE-C v2.1 and TCE-C++ v4.4 ASN.1 run-times are compatible, meaning that they can be linked together in the same executable file.

To receive a free evaluation license and test our new MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C or TCE-C++, click here.

For more information about the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE product, please download our ASNSDK TCE Datasheet and do not hesitate to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com




March 13-17, 2005 - IEEE Infocom 2005, Miami, Florida


Atos Origin will be present at IEEE Infocom 2005 with its partners in the TBONES project.

Atos Origin will demonstrate a GMPLS Unified Control Plane simulator which embeds its MARBEN OSIAM GMPLS Products and MARBEN OSIAM simulator on Wednesday, March 16.




March 8-10, 2005 - NFOEC: Anaheim, California


Atos Origin will be present at OFC/NFOEC with its American distributor, NE Technologies.

Atos Origin will present its MARBEN OSIAM Products and will hold a conference on Migration to an IP Management of Sonet/SDH on Thursday, March 10.




ASNSDK TCE-Java V2.0 - Available now


July 2004

In addition to the previous release of our ASN.1 tools for Java, the TCE-JAVA v2.0 provides a pure Java Unaligned PER encoder/decoder and a Generic Java API to access the whole set of our Java ASN.1 encoders/decoders.
The Generic Java API is independent of the ASN.1 description to process. It is dedicated to applications that do not know the type of the ASN.1 data to process, as for instances, generic browsers that have to be able to display and edit ASN.1 values without prior knowledge of their types or Protocol Analyzers that have to decode various different versions of a same ASN.1 based protocol. TCE-JAVA ASN.1 encoders/decoders are compatible with all Java run-time environment from J2ME CLDC version 1.0 (or higher) up to J2EE version 1.2 (or higher).

To receive a free evaluation license and test our new MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-JAVA, click here.

For more information about the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-JAVA, please download our ASNSDK TCE Datasheet and do not hesitate to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com




ASNSDK TCE-C++ V4.3 - Available now


July 2004

The TCE-C++ v4.3 brings many performance enhancements on the C++ ASN.1 run-times in terms of memory size and CPU time consumption.
New memory management customizations have been defined that significantly improve encoder/decoder performances. The TCE-C++ product now offers a new C++ API without exception to improve the ASN.1 encoder/decoder performances on particular hardware/OS platform where C++ exception mechanism is very CPU time and memory space consuming. Several new features have also been developed such as new debugging trace capabilities, new compilation flag to remove source code dealing with unused ASN.1 notation and other minor evolution.

To receive a free evaluation license and test our new MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C++, click here.

For more information about the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C++, please download our ASNSDK TCE Datasheet and do not hesitate to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com




ASNSDK TCE-Java V1.0


May 2004

Atos Origin announces the immediate availability of its world-class ASN.1 tools,MARBEN ASNSDK TCE for Java programming language.

The MARBEN ASNSDK TCE (Time optimized Class of asn.1 encoder/decoder) for Java provides a powerful set of ASN.1 tools that will speed up the development of your ASN.1 based application and will reduce significantly the time-to-market.

This first release of our ASN.1 tools for Java encompasses an ASN.1 compiler with pure Java ASN.1 BER, DER, XER and Aligned PER encoders/decoders. A new release, planned for July 2004, will offer a pure Java Unaligned PER encoder/decoder. It will also provide a Generic Java API dedicated to applications that do not know the type of the ASN.1 data to process, as for instance, protocol analyzers or generic browsers that have to be able to display ASN.1 values without prior knowledge of their types.

ASNSDK TCE for Java also offers XML capabilities with the automatic translation of ASN.1 values in XML format and an ASN.1 to XML schema (XSD) translator, thus providing fast and cost effective solution to develop your ASN.1 based application.

To receive a free evaluation license and test our new MARBEN ASNSDK TCE for Java, click here.

For more information about the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE for Java, please download our ASNSDK TCE Datasheet and do not hesitate to contact our Sales department at sales@marben-products.com




New OSIAM OSPF routing protocol - Available now


April 2004

Atos Origin announces the release of its new OSIAM OSPF v2 routing protocol. This new product completes Atos Origin's IP routing and GMPLS offer. This new OSIAM OSPF product is designed to be easily integrated either with the OSIAM or system native IP layer. It provides the handling of the main following features :
  • ABR and ASBR roles
  • Virtual links
  • Opaque LSA (RFC 2370)
  • Stub Area and Not-So-Stubby Area (NSSA RFC 3101)
  • Latest Traffic Engineering extensions required by GMPLS and Automatic Switched Optical Networks (ASON): combined with the OSIAM RSVP-TE product, it makes you ready for implementing your control plane.



New OSIAM PPP (Point to Point Protocol) - Available now


April 2004

Atos Origin makes a new step in the migration to IP of SONET/SDH Data Communication Channel (DCC) by releasing its new OSIAM PPP product. This PPP implementation complies with the recommendations of ITU-T G.7712 . The main features are:
  • Support of the Link Control Protocol (LCP)
  • Network Control Protocols (NCP) for IP, OSI and MPLS.
  • Support of Multi-link
  • A straightforward interface for any HDLC driver
  • An easy interface for third party or native IP layers
  • A complete integration with OSIAM network layers



ASNSDK TCE-Java First Release - Coming Soon


February 2004

Atos Origin announces the soon availability of its world-class ASN.1 tools, MARBEN ASNSDK, for Java programming language.
This first release, planned for April 2004, will encompass an ASN.1 compiler together with pure Java ASN.1 BER, DER and XER encoders/decoders. The MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-Java will be compatible with all Java runtime environments from J2ME CLDC 1.0 up to J2EE. A second release, planned for July 2004, will offer a pure Java PER encoder/decoder and a Generic Java API to build generic ASN.1 applications.




ASNSDK TCE-C V2.0 - Available now


October 2003

Atos Origin announces the immediate availability of its world-class ASN.1 tools, the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE for C programming language.

The MARBEN ASNSDK TCE (Time optimized Class of asn.1 encoder/decoder) for C provides a powerful set of ASN.1 tools that will speed up the development of your ASN.1 based application and will reduce significantly the time-to-market.

Encompassing an ASN.1 compiler together with ASN.1 BER, DER, PER and XER encoders/decoders, the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE-C v2.0 offers state-of-art XML solution with the automatic translation of ASN.1 values in XML format and an ASN.1 to XML Schema (XSD) translator.

All these capabilities together with the numerous off-the-shelf XML tools offer fast and cost-effective solution to develop your ASN.1 based application.

To receive a free evaluation license and test our new MARBEN ASNSDK TCE for C, click here.

For more information about the MARBEN ASNSDK TCE for C, please download our ASNSDK TCE Datasheet and do not hesitate to contact our Sales departement at sales@marben-products.com




Atos Origin at ITU Telecom World 2003 : Geneva, Switzerland


12th-18th October 2003

ITU Telecom World is renowned worldwide as the one telecommunications show not to be missed. ITU Telecom World's ability to bring together the top decision-makers from government and industry around the world has earned it a reputation as the meeting place for doing business.

Throughout the event, experts from our Global Telecoms team will be on hand to present all our innovative solutions for the telecom industry. These include our Marben products, the areas of Billing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Datacenter Consolidation.

So come and visit Atos Origin on Stand 2071 in Hall 2 and see how we turn client vision into results.

More event information can be found at www.itu.int/WORLD2003.




July 2003 - OSIAM Distributed CLNP Forwarding feature


Atos Origin enhanced its MARBEN SONET/SDH protocol suite with a Distributed CLNP Forwarding capability.
This new feature allows high-end SONET/SDH ADM and Cross-Connect equipment to take benefit from their distributed architecture by splitting the routing and the forwarding functions of the CLNP based DCC Network. Routing is kept on the main controller whereas forwarding can be distributed on all line cards.
Therefore, most of the network traffic processing is performed by line cards increasing network throughput and reducing main controller resources consumption.
  • Based on an innovative cache mechanism of network routes, the OSIAM Distributed CLNP Forwarding feature reduces the footprint on line cards,
  • Thanks to its open concept, it is compatible with all kinds of communication layers between boards (reliable or not)
  • Combined with the OSIAM Network Entity Hot-Standby feature, your DCC has never been so resilient and efficient.


June 1-5, 2003 - SuperComm 2003 : Atlanta, Georgia


Atos Origin will be present at SuperComm 2003 with its American distributor, NE Technologies. Atos Origin will present its MARBEN Products.



April 2003 - ASNSDK TCE-C++ V4.2


The MARBEN ASNSDK TCE C++ v4.2 is now available. This new version introduces:
  • A new error management mechanism to identify precisely the ASN.1 field in error.
  • A new memory optimized constraint check mechanism.
  • A new memory management mechanism that improves significantly the run-time performances.
  • A new compiler option that allows users to split the C++ files generated in several parts.
  • New capabilities in the BER toolkit in order to ease the implementation of RAP3.
To discover the latest enhancements, click here



March 2003 - OSIAM AE-DCF product
The Auto-Encapsulating Data Communication Function for SONET/SDH DCN


Atos Origin introduces a new component in its OSI to IP Migration Solutions which allows the OSIAM SONET/SDH DCN stack to make a new step in the migration from legacy to new IP DCN: the OSIAM AE-DCF.
  • Based on the OSIAM Integrated IS-IS offer, the auto-encapsulation product ensures an automatic tunneling of IP over OSI with GRE encapsulation. Although static provisioning of tunnels is allowed, most of tunnels are created dynamically from routing information handled by Integrated IS-IS.

  • Fully compliant with the latest ITU-T G.7712 standard, the OSIAM AE-DCF product provides a highly integrated and seamless solution to solve interoperability issues.


November 2002 - Atos Origin's TAP3 Solution brings TAP3 roaming support to EDB Telesciences Sterling Mediation products.


EDB Telesciences, a world leader in mediation system solutions, has chosen Atos Origin's TAP3 Solution to expand its Sterling 5000i series product line with additional TAP3 mediation capability.
EDB Telesciences has selected Atos Origin's TAP3 Solution for its abilities to satisfy high-level performance requirements for the processing of TAP3 files and to support all TAP3 standard versions published or to be published.
The Atos Origin's TAP3 Solution robustness, reliability and easy-to-use object oriented interface, has led to the successful integration and the rapid deployment of this new Sterling Mediation solution in the billing system of a leading mobile operator in Russia.
The Sterling 5000i series together with the Atos Origin's TAP3 Solution provides all the means to meet the challenges for new generation services billing.
After the successful integration of the MARBEN CDR Collection product with EDB Telesciences Sterling product, Atos Origin and EDB Telesciences teamed up again in a new area of CDR mediation: TAP3 roaming. This new collaboration has strengthened the links between the two companies and opens significant new telecommunication customers' opportunities for both firms.



November 2002 - ASNSDK V4.1


The latest version of MARBEN ASNSDK is now available. This new version brings out an ASN.1 to XML schema (XSD) translator. Based on the input ASN.1 description, the ASN.1 compiler generates an XML schema (XSD) that conforms to XER (XML Encoding Rules) together with default XML Style sheet (XSL).

Used in conjunction with the ASNSDK TCE XER encoding/decoding engine, these features enable you to:
  • Encode any XML value, that conforms to the XML Schema generated, in BER, DER or PER encoding (and vice-versa), thus providing an "XML Interface" to ASN.1 BER, DER and PER encoding/decoding engines,
  • Use off-the-shelf XML tools to edit or modify ASN.1 values,
  • Use off-the-shelf XSL processors and the default XML style sheet generated to translate or process ASN.1 values, as for instance, to display ASN.1 values using common HTML browsers.


September 15-19, 2002 - NFOEC 2002 : Dallas, Texas


Atos Origin will be present at NFOEC 2002 with its American distributor, NE Technologies.
Atos Origin will present its MARBEN Products and its new offer GMPLS.



September 2002 - Lucent Technologies selects the MARBEN MPLS/GMPLS Solution


Lucent Technologies a leading global supplier of communications networking equipment, has chosen the MARBEN MPLS/GMPLS Solution of Atos Origin for the control plane of its next-generation optical product, LambdaUnite™ (SONET/SDH).

After the MARBEN IS-IS routing protocol for OSI & IP networks, Lucent Technologies has selected the MARBEN RSVP-TE and the Signaling & Traffic Engineering development kits for their ability to match its exact requirements. The MARBEN MPLS/GMPLS products provide Lucent Technologies with a highly integrated solution.

The MARBEN MPLS/GMPLS Solution offers signaling (RSVP-TE) and routing protocols (Integrated IS-IS) integrated in the efficient and robust MARBEN OSIAM framework. High added value development kits for signaling and traffic engineering routing complete them to offer a unique suite that dramatically ease and speed up the implementation of network elements GMPLS based control plane.

Thanks to this new success, Atos Origin strengthens its position as a leading MPLS/GMPLS solution supplier and consolidates its long-term partnership with Lucent Technologies in optical network administration and provisioning.



August 2002 - ASNSDK V4.0


The latest version of MARBEN ASNSDK is now available. This new version brings out two new components:
  • A basic and canonical XER encoding/decoding engine. This new engine fully conforms to the ITU-T recommendation X.693 (2001). It provides a C++ API, which is identical to the one used for BER, DER and PER engines. Thus, users can easily convert BER, DER and PER binary encoding into XML.
  • A Graphical User Interface for the ASN.1 compiler. The ASNSDK GUI is a powerful environment that enables you to easily construct, compile and debug your ASN.1 description, working on a friendly desktop.
Several improvements have also been made concerning value trace mechanism, ASN.1 constraints checking and BER toolkit.



Jun 2-6, 2002 - SuperComm 2002 - Atlanta, Georgia


Atos Origin will be present at SuperComm 2002 with its American distributor, NE Technologies.
Atos Origin will present its MARBEN Products and its new offer GMPLS.



May 2002 - ASNSDK V3.1


The latest version of MARBEN ASNSDK is now available. Several improvements have been made concerning the automatic decoding of open types and the reduction of the generated code size.



April 2002 - MARBEN CDR Collection brings FTAM connectivity to Telesciences, Inc. Sterling Mediation products.



Telesciences, Inc., the world leader in mediation system solutions, has selected the MARBEN CDR Collection Developer Edition product of Atos Origin to expand its Sterling 2100 series product line with additional FTAM interfaces .
Telesciences, Inc. selected MARBEN CDR Collection for its ability to interoperate with Ericsson, Siemens, and Alcatel switches. The MARBEN CDR Collection software's robustness, reliability and ease of integration has led to the successful integration and rapid deployment in major international telephone operating company networks. The Sterling 2100 product together with the MARBEN CDR Collection software is in production, collecting billing tickets (CDRs), improving telephone operators' billing data collection networks, and providing enhanced reliability and revenue assurance.
Thanks to the efficient collaboration of Atos Origin and Telesciences, Inc., the two products were successfully integrated in a very short period of time. Initial new product orders received to date for the combined products exceed $1,000,000 USD, and significant new telecommunication customer opportunities have been opened for both firms.



April 2002 - OSIAM IS-IS and CR-LDP Portable Products



Atos Origin introduces two new components of the MARBEN GMPLS Solution :
  • The widely deployed OSIAM IS-IS has been enhanced to comply with RFC1195 and GMPLS Traffic Engineering requirements. Applications now benefit from a full access to the Traffic Engineering data advertised by IS-IS.
  • The OSIAM CR-LDP signaling protocol aims at establishing, maintaining and tearing down optical paths. This new component complies with latest RFC and drafts and the OIF O-UNI 1.0 specification (1.0) .
Coming soon, RSVP-TE and new programming interfaces to ease and speed up the development and integration of GMPLS applications.

For more information, please download GMPLS datasheet.



1st Quarter 2002 - CDR Collection V2.0


Version 2.0 of the Marben CDR Collection has been released at the end of January 2002.
This new version is now available for Win NT 4.0 and will be released for Windows 2000 in the coming weeks.
Version 2.0 brings the following main new features:
  • Both FTAM and CMISE connectivity over three types of networks (X.25, TCP/IP, CLNP).
  • A free trial version.
  • A graphical user interface for configuration.
  • A simplified packaging and an improved documentation.
  • Interoperability enhancements that widen the set of switches the product interoperates with.
This new version is already deployed in the fields (refer to Telesciences news).

For more information, visit the CDR Collection product line .



3rd January 2002 - ASNSDK V3.0


The MARBEN ASNSDK v3.0 encompasses a BER and DER encoding/decoding engine providing C++ interface that fully supports ITU-T 12/97 X.690.



December 2001 - GMPLS Solution


MARBEN Products has a long experience of providing protocol suites for the administration of SONET and SDH networks. Atos Origin is extending its offer with a portable and compliant implementation of GMPLS protocols that will allow you to quickly provide GMPLS-ready optical Network Elements.

For more information, discover our GMPLS Solution.



12TH December 2001 - OSIAM V2.7C


The new OSIAM 2.7C release increases its Optical Networks administration coverage providing key components for seamless migration from legacy to new IP based management networks. Among other functionality it brings:
  • FTP implementation with High Level API, following Bellcore GR-1250 requirements.
  • File Transfer Translation Device (FTAM-FTP on-the-fly Gateway) as specified by the Network and Services Integration Forum.
    This is the perfect companion of the OSIAM TL1 Translation Device.
  • Off-the-shelf IP Tunneling integration with VxWorks TCP/IP.
  • Interfacing with Trillium LAPD implementation.
  • FTAM real-time file transfer for direct access to transferred data.
The OSIAM 2.7C release adds the following operating systems support:
  • Solaris 8
  • HP-UX 11
  • Linux Red-Hat 7.0
  • Windows 2000
  • VxWorks 5.4
For more information, visit the OSIAM product line



29th October 2001 - ASNSDK V2.1


The MARBEN ASNSDK v2.1 encompasses:
  • a BER encoding/decoding engine, providing C++ API, ready for TAP3,
  • an XML Semantic Tree generator. This Semantic Tree represents in an XML format, a synthesis of all the information contained in the input ASN.1 description. This feature enables users to develop their own ASN.1 solution (such as building generic decoding engines or ASN.1 to other formal notation gateways) based on an open XML architecture.


15th June 2001 - ASNSDK V2.0


This version fully supports Information Objects and Parameterized types (ITU-T 12/97 X.681, X.682, X.683).
PER encoding/decoding engine can automatically encode and decode open type values.



March 20, 21, 22 2001 Rennes - France : Network Developments 2001


Atos Origin is an official sponsor of Network Developments 2001.
The 8th edition of this exhibition and international conference deals with "Developing NGN for the millennium: Technologies and Business Models".



January 2001 - Nortel Networks has selected MARBEN ASNSDK product.


Thanks to Atos Origin experience in the field of ASN.1 and the reliability of its solutions, MARBEN ASNSDK product has been elected to be embedded in all Radio Access Networks elements (RNC and Node-B), deployed by Telecom Operators using Nortel's solutions.



Atos Origin Develops Innovative Solutions with Telecom OEMs to Meet the UMTS Challenge


Paris, France - November 10, 2000 -Atos Origin, a leading European IT services provider, is delivering innovative solutions to meet new telecom OEM requirements and support transition to the UMTS networks expected to revolutionize the telecom industry by 2002.

Atos Origin Strengths in the UMTS Market :

  • Teams of specialists working within the R&D labs of telecom OEMs.
  • Extensive technical skills in telecommunications, ranging from systems architecture, call processing (BSC, RNC) and network management (OMC) to data transmission protocols (ASN1).
  • A world-class UMTS OEM customer base (including Lucent, Nortel and Motorola) and experience in working with many telecom operators (France Telecom, Cegetel, Bouygues, DT Mobil...)
  • World-wide coverage.

Management of Large-Scale UMTS Network Projects

Atos Origin leverages its recognized technological expertise to manage UMTS projects and offer OEMs a full range of services from systems architecture and development to integration/validation and deployment. This ability to provide strong support in all UMTS areas represents a major benefit for OEMs, enabling them to :

  • Diminish risks associated with product installation and use.
  • Benefit from Atos Origin expertise in telecommunications.
  • Access worldwide technical support resources.

Dedicated Wireless Technology Software

Atos Origin has developed software specifically for UMTS applications, including a suite of Marben wireless telecom products supplied to such telecom OEMs as Nortel, Matra, Motorola and Lucent, as well as to telecom carriers, computer manufacturers (Compaq/Digital, IBM, SUN), banks and government organizations. Marben products enjoy a solid reputation for portability and robustness, with the capability to meet the performance and reliability requirements of telecom networks.

UMTS Specialists in OEM R&D Centers

Atos Origin quickly forged a position in the telecom OEM services market with dedicated network management products and extensive technical expertise, starting with the first mobile phone networks up to the current GSM and other digital networks. Its telecom specialists maintain a strong presence in the UMTS R&D centers of telecom OEMs and develop specialist services in the following upstream areas:

  • Call processing (BSC, PCU, RNC, Node B).
  • Technical architecture.
  • Network management (OMC).
  • Protocol encoding (ASN.1).
  • Support for the deployment of pilot networks.

Mobile Internet Services and the UMTS Challenge

The convergence of wireless and Internet technologies and their widespread use have driven a major surge in demand for telecom services. The introduction of UMTS as the third-generation mobile phone standard is therefore expected to revolutionize the delivery of multimedia services and applications.

UMTS should facilitate wireless Internet access and avoid overloading the capacity of mobile phone networks, while providing enhanced technical performance. Based on Internet-compatible technologies, the new UMTS networks will enable high data transmission rates of up to 2 MB/s with full multimedia capability and will radically transform the internal structure of mobile communication networks and terminals.

Abbreviations

ASN.1
Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) is a language that describes data structures to enable communication among heterogeneous systems. It is widely used in telecommunications for billing, network management, voice over IP, secure transactions and other functions. In UMTS networks, ASN.1 is used to encode exchanged messages. An encoding/decoding system is therefore implemented on each terminal and network infrastructure (RNC, Node B, Core Network), which requires ASN.1 products to meet specific performance and memory allocation specifications of each type of equipment concerned.
BSC
A Base Station Controller. A BSC is a switching unit that acts as an interface between the network and the BTSs it controls.
BTS
A Base Transceiver Station. A BTS is used for transmission and reception in a GSM mobile phone system.
NodeB
The equivalent of a BTS in UMTS technology.
OMC
An Operation and Maintenance Center. An OMC is used to manage GSM network elements.
RNC
A Radio Network Controller. An RNC is the UMTS equivalent of a BSC.
UMTS
Universal Mobile Transmission System.