Datacom & Networking
The leading Networking OEM firms now leverage global sourcing to the maximum. It has enabled them to cost cut their way out of a big slump in the networking and communications market. In the current market scenario startups and OEMs automatically choose global sourcing for manufacturing, software development and support in order to remain competitive. As the lines blur between various product vendors, the key to gaining a competitive edge remains the speed and quality of innovation.
Calsoft labs mission is to enable our clients to gain a competitive edge in delivering innovative products in a consistent manner. Calsoft labs not only helps client R &D team focus their energies on new product development but also provides core engineering expertise and talent to develop new products while sustaining existing ones. Calsoft labs has expertise in various network and communication technologies and applications including Network Management, Routing & Switching, Network Security, Wireless, VoIP, Storage and IPTV.
Expertise Areas
Calsoft labs’s core areas of expertise in the network and communications domain are as described below:
Covering the full spectrum, from agents and back-end implementations on the devices to Element management systems and integrated network management systems. Technologies include SNMP, Java, XML and other web-based technologies.
Network Security
SSL and IPSec VPNs, firewalls, Checkpoint, authentication protocols like RADIUS, NAT, NAP.
Switching & Routing
Protocol implementations, expertise on standard routing protocols like RIP and OSPF, implementation of Layer 2-3 protocols like RSTP and LACP as well as Layer 4-7 systems.
VoIP
IP Telephony, Softswitch, SIP and related integration of security and switching components.
IPTV, VoD & Cable
IPTV solutions including Set-Top-Box and client, Video-On-Demand, broadcast TV, pay-per-view and related skills such as streaming media server porting and QoS frameworks for PacketCable and 3G.
Wireless Networking
WiFi, WLAN, QoS configuration in WiFi networks to support multi-media services.
Development of server and client side components, MicroSAN protocol, storage class filter drivers, iSCSI.
Content Caching
TCP/IP stack optimization, protocols like HTTP, ICAP, ICP, WCCP, WPAD, MPEG4, tools like Webbench, Polygraph, Microsoft WebStress, load simulators like WmLoad.
Dedicated QA Lab setup. Testing of IP and routing stacks, scripting and test automation. Performance testing using tools such as Ixia, Caw, Winrunner.
Solutions
- Diameter Application Development Kit
Calsoft Labs unveils a diameter based application development kit for its customers enabling quick integration and deployment of AAA applications and AAA based applications over mobile and fixed networks.
- PCMM GATE CONTROL API
SDK that provides high-level APIs to implement the QoS control components of Application Manager, Policy Server and the CMTS.
- COPS-PR - Software Development Kit (COPS-PR SDK)
SDK to develop Policy Decision Point (PDP) and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP), the key components of IETF’s framework.
- PPP Protocol Suite
The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP, RFC 1661) provides a standard method for transporting multi-protocol datagrams over point-to-point links.
- MLP Protocol Stack
Multilink-PPP (MLP) protocol stack from Calsoft labs is a full featured, standard implementation of RFC 1990 for aggregating multiple links into a single big pipe.