Custom tailored cellular solutions

Services

We are the creators and main developers of the Osmocom OpenBSC and other cellular network infrastructure software. Our engineers have first-hand software development and deployment experience in virtually all areas of cellular networks.

Based on this in-depth protocol-level knowledge, we are providing custom-tailored cellular solutions to our customers. If you are tired of hearing your vendor claim "this is not possible", "you are too small a customer to rectify a change in our product" or similar statements, please feel free to contact us. We are happy to implement exactly what you need, as long as the cellular protocols and the laws and our ethical code of conduct permit it.

Services

We provide professional design, development, engineering, consulting and support services within our areas of expertise as listed below

Areas of Expertise

We are proud to be able to cover a very wide range of topics, from Analog RF Engineering to Digital Electronics design into firmware, drivers and (cellular) protocol stacks - from deeply embedded Cortex-M0 base devices all the way up into

Cellular Protocol Stacks

We have worked extensively on custom implementations of:

  • GSM/GPRS/EDGE Baseband software (MS side, Um sniffer)

  • GSM BTS (LAPDm, A-bis/E1, A-bis/IP, RSL, OML)

  • BSC (A-bis/E1, A-bis/IP, A/IP, BSSMAP, BSSAP)

  • MSC (A/IP, Iu-CS, L3 Mobility Management, Call Cotnrol, RANAP)

  • PCU for GPRS and EGPRS (RLC/MAC, NS, BSSGP)

  • SGSN (NS, BSSGP, LLC, SNDCP, GMM, GTP, RANAP, Iu-PS)

  • GGSN (GTP)

  • GAN-C (UMA / GAN Protocols)

  • HNB-GW for UMTS Small/Femtocells (RUA, HNBAP, RANAP)

  • UMA/GAN

  • LTE EPC (S1, PDCP, NAS, GTPv2, DIAMETER)

  • 5G UPF/SMF

Cellular Core Network

  • SS7 (MTP3, ISUP, SCCP, TCAP, MAP and CAP)

  • SIGTRAN (M2UA, M2PA, M3UA, SUA)

  • STP / SGW

  • HLR / HSS

  • SGP / PGW

  • Media Gateway (MGCP, RTP, AMR transcoding)

M2M/IOT Applications

We have been developing products for telematics, remote sensing and logistics tracking, covering the whole stack from

  • Electronics Design

  • Firmware + Application software on the device

  • Application-layer communications protocols over SMS, USSD, GPRS, UMTS

  • Back-end software for data consolidation and aggregation

SIM / USIM / UICC Cards

We have been working with SIM card related

  • ISO/IEC 7816 based smart cards

  • ETSI 102 221 based UICC

  • GSM SIM Cards (TS 11.11)

  • 3GPP USIM

  • 3GPP ISIM

  • GSMA eUICC / eSIM

  • Java Cards (Global Platform)

  • SIM card protocol tracing

  • SIM card forwarding (remote SIM)

  • SIM card emulation

eUICC and eSIM

We have in-depth first-hand developer knowledge on

  • SGP.21/22 Consumer eSIM

  • SGP.31/32 IoT eSIM

  • SimAlliance/TCA Interoperable Profile Format

  • SM-DP+ and SM-DS

  • eIM + IPAd

  • eSIM profile creation, personalization

  • Consumer eUICC

Satellite Communications

We have worked on sytem integration of communications technology with a variety of satellite operators to develop applications such as cellular back-haul optimization to least-cost-routing on:

  • Thuraya

  • Iridium

  • Inmarsat

  • Various VSAT providers

Linux BSP Development

We've been creating and maintaining OpenEmbedded / poky based Linux Board Support Packages for both our own products as well as some customer products.

Embedded Electronics Development

We do embedded electronisc development both for our in-house products as well as for customer products / projects, based on the following technologies:

  • IEEE 802.3 Ethernet (MAC, PHY, Switches)

    • Ethernet over Plastic Optical Fibre (POF)

    • Synchronous Ethernet

    • Power-over-Ethernet PSE and PD (up to full LTPoE++ 90W)

  • ARM9 + Cortex-A Embedded ARM SoCs (Samsung, TI)

  • ARM7 + Cortex-M Microcontrollers (Atmel SAM3/SAM7/SAMD/SAME, STM32)

  • USB, SPI, I2C, SD, SDIO, eMMC, NAND, HSIC

  • GSM/UMTS/LTE Modems (Sierra, Gemalto, Quectel, ...)

  • GNSS Receiver Modules

  • 13.56 MHz RFID / NFC (ISO14443, ISO15693)

  • 2.4 GHz Untra Low Power Wireless (nRF24x01)

  • RF Step Attenuators, Splitters, Distrbution networks

  • Li-Ion Battery Charging Controllers / Gas Gauges

  • IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi Access Points and Clients