Microtronix and Marben Products team to Deliver a Single Box Solution for Migrating Legacy Network

Marben Products, an established provider of portable protocol suites for the control and management plans of New Generation Networks, announced today that it has signed a formal distribution agreement with Microtronix, a world leader in X.25 integration and migration with operations in North America, Europe and Latin America to distribute Microtronix Access 3000 and 4000 X.25-TCP/IP gateway products worldwide.

“In a context where carriers are phasing out their X.25 networks and where X.25 networks gets less and less market support, it is imperative for all x.25 users to find alternative solution”, said the Marben Products Marketing and Sales Director Michel Perin. “We do believe that Microtronix Access 3000/4000 products will enable us to offer our customers a solution to transparently move from X.25 to TCP/IP networks while preserving their current investment”.

Many legacy applications like CDR Collections using FTAM or CMISE/CMIP and X.400 messaging systems in various markets such as banking, defense, local and federal administrations still use X.25 networks. “By replacing the X.25 network modems and eliminating the need to lease expensive dial-up costs, Access 3000/4000 X.25-TCP/IP gateways reduce the amount of protocol overhead support, lower operating costs and increase efficiency” said Blair Bryce, Product Manager for Microtronix.

The Access 3000 Gateway offers comprehensive solutions to a migration from X.25 networking to TCP/IP networking. The product supports both X.25 to TCP conversion and X.25 over TCP encapsulation via XOT over IP (RFC 1613). By tunneling the X.25 packet layer over TCP, the gateway allows for seamless integration without modification or re-configuration of the X.25 devices. All network addressing is preserved. By transporting the packets, the gateway preserves all of the options of the X.25 protocol.

The new Access 4000 CDR Collection Manager offers a Call Detail Records (CDRs) collection platform in addition to an all-in-one X.25-TCP/IP protocol conversion gateway. It resides between the network elements and OSS management applications providing a complete end-to-end Switch (PSTN switches like Alcatel E10, Ericsson AXE10, Siemens EWSD, …) to Billing solution for service providers and large enterprise networks. Marben Products will present Microtronix Access 3000 and 4000 X.25-TCP/IP gateways during the OSS Billing & OSS World in Washington, DC on June 9-10 at the booth number #320.

About Microtronix

Microtronix began as a design and embedded engineering firm for custom networking equipment for the Telco marketplace, pioneering the X25 protocol. Today, Microtronix uses these same engineering skills to develop and support their own line of embedded products, specializing in the rapid development of FPGA based hardware, IP cores, printed circuit board and software solutions for embedded products. Microtronix provides a turnkey design-development service, with proven expertise in taking products from initial concept through to production.

Press Contact:

Blair Bryce
Microtronix
(888) 690-0091 x297
sales@microtronix.com

About Marben Products

For more than 25 years, Marben is providing key software solutions to telecom equipment manufacturers and services application providers for next generation service-driven networks. We deliver interoperable, robust and efficient solutions to help our customers accelerate their time to market. Our key products include:

• MPLS/GMPLS control plane solution to improve the network capability and to offer new added-value services (fast path provisioning, bandwidth on demand…);
  
• AAA solution to quickly connect your application to IMS and NGN control plane for dealing with Authentication, QoS, Policy and intelligent charging services;Efficient ASN.1 and XML data optimization tools to speed up the transfer of information over low-bandwidth network.
  

Over a half million MARBEN protocol stacks have been deployed in Telecom, DOD, financial and auto industries to name a few. Telecom players know for dependability such as Adtran, Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, HP, Nortel, Oracle, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Tellabs have trusted MARBEN products for its high quality performance products, expertise and industry leading support.

Marben Products is located in Puteaux near Paris in France with sales office in Atlanta (Norcross) US and India.

Press Contact:

Robin Rice
Sales Director
Office: +1-770-709-7230
Mobile: +1-404-667-1936
robinrice@netechinc.com
Marben Products is an affiliate of NE Technologies, Inc.