BROADBAND & OPTICAL NETWORKS

The Broadband & Optical Networks business unit at Blue Monitor helps telecom equipment vendors and service providers to design, develop, test and support data-communication equipments and services for SOHO, access, metro edge, carrier and enterprise networking.

• Product engineering and consulting services
• System integration and product support
• Product validation services

Residential Gateways

Home Gateway
Blue Monitor home gateway software enables OEMs to build various CPE access devices like SOHO router, VPN router, DSL router and multimedia gateway to provide data, voice and video services to end-users.

SOHO Router
Blue Monitor SOHO router software solution provides a full featured basic router with firewall package for OEMs to build router products for residential / SOHO market segments.

VPN Router
Blue Monitor VPN router software solution is a complete software packages comprising of routing / bridging, firewall and VPN features for OEMs to build VPN router / gateway products addressing SOHO / residential and SMB market segments.

DSL Router
Blue Monitor DSL router software solution includes Data over DSL, Router and VPN packages. This enables OEMs to build a complete DSL router product.

DSL IAD Solution
Blue Monitor DSL IAD solution is a feature-rich software package comprising of data over DSL, router, VPN and VoIP functionalities. This solution enables OEMs to build multi-service DSL products.

H.323 Stack
Blue Monitor H.323 stack is a complete H.323v3-based VoIP solution for OEMs building DSL IADs, VoIP access points or routers with VoIP.

SIP Call Agent
Blue Monitor SIP Call Agent is a complete SIP-based VoIP solution for OEMs building DSL IADs, VoIP access points or routers with VoIP.

Ethernet
Blue Monitor's Ethernet MAC Bridge protocol stack provides a MAC bridging software (802.1D) with QoS (802.1p), VLAN (802.1Q), RSTP (802.1w), MSTP (802.1s), authentication (802.1X), IGMP snooping along with link aggregation (802.3ad) functionality. The solution supports IETF MIBs for SNMP management. Blue Monitor Ethernet MAC Bridge solution offers OEM vendors and chipset vendors with a fully tested and integrated layer 2 protocol suite engineered for portability and scalability.

Backed by Blue Monitor’s 20-year technological expertise and billion dollar service operations, Blue Monitor helps chipset vendors and SBC vendors build high quality products with their hardware platform with standard compliant 'ready to deploy' solutions. This helps in crashing the customer's product development cycle and increasing the value at a lower cost.

Features Support for 1024 VLANs (scalable) with port-based VLAN classification

• GMRP for dynamic multicast group
• GVRP for dynamic VLAN registration
• RSTP for rapid topology reconfiguration (interoperable with legacy STP bridges)
• MSTP for load balancing
• LACP for link aggregation
• Port-based authentication
• GMP snooping
• Support for bridge ports with eight traffic priorities per port
• Easy and highly flexible protocol configuration through well defined APIs
• SNMP agent provided for bridge management
• Easily portable to different target platforms and OS through use of platform and OS abstraction layer
• Conformance - All mandatory and optional features of 802.1w and 802.1Q implemented
• Standards Supported IEEE standards
• Basic MAC Bridges (STP replaced with RSTP)
• QoS on the MAC Level
• Virtual bridged LAN
• Rapid Reconfiguration of Spanning Tree
• Maintenance of 802.1D
• Maintenance of 802.1Q
• Maintenance of 802.1w and 802.1t (till draft D2)
• MSTP
• Authentication
• Link aggregation
• MIBs Supported RFC 1493 (Bridge MIB)
• RFC 2674 (VLAN MIB)
• RFC 1213 (MIB II)
• RFC 2233 (Interfaces MIB as defined in RFC 1213)

OPTICAL TRANSPORT

• Hardware Development Multi-port line card development with rates from DS1 to OC-192 (STM-64)
• FPGA development for custom interfacing
• RoHS / WEEE compliance related re-engineering
• Re-engineering to handle component obsolescence for legacy optical products
• Software Development - OAM / Embedded Software Protection switching - Linear 1+1 / 1:1 (MSP), BLSR (MS-SPRing), UPSR (SNCP)
• GR-253/G.707 based OAM software
• Optical control plane software (G.ASTN/GMPLS)
• Northbound interfaces like TMF-814 / XML based interfaces from network management systems
• NE simulation platform / enhancements
• Ethernet over SONET / SDH using GFP, VCAT and LCAS
• Incremental feature enhancements
• Software Testing Test strategy and planning, regression testing, functionality testing and automation
• Ethernet over SONET/SDH, Packet Ring (RPR) related testing
• DWDM NE testing (OADM)

IP TRANSPORT

Metro Ethernet, Metro Multiservice Nodes & Gateways, Mobile Backhaul / Interconnection Products, BRAS, IP / MPLS Edge Router, ATM / MPLS switch, Transceiver Modules, Ethernet Switching Modules, Long Reach Ethernet, Carrier Ethernet, Core Multiservice Gateway & Switches, IP/MPLS Core Routers, IP Ethernet Router

• Hardware Development Line card development, low volume production
• FPGA development for specific interfacing
• Software Development – OAM / Embedded Software Complete system software development for multi service router
• Diagnostics and management software development for high availability features
• Protocol stack development in layer 2 (Ethernet, FR, ATM), IP routing (OSPF, BGP, RIP), Multicast, MPLS Signaling (RSVP-TE, LDP)
• QoS and bandwidth management software
• Security feature development like VPN, SSL for transport elements
• Development of IDS / IPS software modules for protecting the network against attacks like DoS
• Development of network processor based solutions based on Intel IXP 2400 / 2800 platform and Agere NP platforms
• Software Testing Integration testing
• Release management over multiple code bases
• Regression testing, functionality testing
• Test automation
• Proven test suite on layer 2 and layer 3 protocol stacks

ACCESS NETWORK

• Hardware Development Board design for access devices like IPDSLAM, BRAS, ONT / ONU among others
• FPGA development for specific functionality like DBA algorithm
• Software Development – OAM / Embedded Software System software development for access devices
• Board bring up with Broadcom, Marvel, Freescale chipsets
• Protocol stack development (OMCI, 802.3ah, etc.)
• DBA algorithm implementation in PON
• Network processor implementations on Intel IXP, Agere processors
• Device driver development
• Porting across multiple platforms including Linux, Vxworks, Nucleous among others
• Security: Development of access control lists, secure shell login, IPSec, VPN, etc.
• Software Testing Integration testing
• Release management over multiple code bases
• Regression testing, functionality testing
• Test automation using Blue Monitor’s Test Brix tools
• Proven test suite on layer 2 and layer 3 protocol stacks

SOHO & ENTERPRISE NETWORK

Hardware Development Board design for Ethernet and WiFi enabled devices like WLAN access point, Ethernet switch, enterprise router, residential gateway
FPGA development for specific interfacing

• Software Development – OAM / Embedded Software System software development for CPE
• Board bring up with Broadcom, Marvel, Freescale chipsets
• Protocol stack development
• Device driver development
• Porting across multiple platforms including Linux, Vxworks, Nucleous among others
• Software Testing Integration testing
• Release management over multiple code bases
• Regression testing, functionality testing
• Test automation using Blue Monitor’s TestBrix tools
• Proven test suite on layer 2 and layer 3 protocol stacks

SERVICE MANAGEMENT & REALIZATION

• Triple Play Testing for Various Access Technologies PON -> OLT + ONT using FTTP NEs
• DSL -> DSL variants (ADSL2/2+, VDSL2/2+) using FTTN NEs
• Ethernet -> IP / MPLS network to test FE, GE, etc., using IP-DSLAM NEs
• Triple Play Services Testing HSI Access, VoIP, VPN, IP-TV, VoD, video telephony / conferencing
• Triple Play Infrastructure Testing Broadcast head end equipments, VoD servers, routers / switches, BRAS, IP-DSLAMs, FTTNs, FTTPs, modems, STBs, Digi - TV
• End-to-end Testing Conformance tests - protocol stacks (like IGMP, PPP, L2TP, IPTV, DHCP, ping, 802.1x, L4-L7 HTTP, etc.)
• Traffic tests for performance (like throughput, BW, QoS, packet loss, latency, jitter, echo, clipping, etc.)
• Interface tests like 10 / 100 Ethernet, GE, ATM, DSL, etc. End-user service quality of experience (like channel change, concurrent channel request, etc.)

WIRELESS BROADBAND

• GSM Access
• GSM / GPRS BTS
• GSM / CDMA, IP BSC
• OMC-R for GSM
• SGSN

• UMTS Access

• WCDMA BTS
• WCDMA RNC
• Transport Element

• Core Networks

• HLR
• GSM / CDMA MSC
• WAP GW, Application GW
• MMSC, SMSC, MLC
• Wireless Data Services
• HSDPA RNC / AP
• Wi-MAX AP
• UMTS QoS
• Authentication
• Server

• IMS & Applications

• HSS, XDM server
• GIAM solutions
• Push to talk over cellular,
• SIP-AS
• IMS testing

Hardware
Design / development of boards, add-on / line cards for BTS, BSC like CPRI, ATCA HW boards, RoHS / WEEE compliance.

Platform
Development of BSPs, diagnostics, porting of BSC / RNC application SW to Linux, CLI development.

Protocols and SW
Development of BSC node SW (BSSAP, RF-Mgmt), RNC SW (RRC, NBAP, PDCP, MAC, RANAP), element managers, SGSN SW like GTP-U, GTP-N, API development for QoS, AAA.

Application Development
Development of IMS and core network NE like HLR, HSS, global identity management solutions using IBM Tivoli, Sun IM, authentication solutions, XDM servers, applications like PoC, SIP-AS based applications