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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 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

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 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.



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.

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.



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