LTE AND BEYOND

Guess who is going to cover the 5G Core for you

2021-09-17T18:42:00.002+02:00

Hey Team, Guys, Everyone,I has been way to much time since last time I wrote something meaningful here, apologies for that.Many things have changed in my life since 2013 when this website was still working. I got a new job with end of 2013. I was creating the history by virtualizing Telecom industry. The same thing that you all are probably doing now.Then even bigger player showed up on my

The 5G and Network Slicing

2020-10-29T14:31:00.000+01:00

While browsing LinkedIn I stumbled on the video by Mohamed Radwan and Karim Rabie about the 5G and Network slicing.I'm going to share it embedding it here belowIt's clear to me that Mohamed is into IT technology and I'm sure you are going to find other interesting topics on his YouTube channel./Bart

Long time no see - let us try to change it!

2020-10-29T14:23:00.003+01:00

Hey Team,It is a very long time since we seen each other on those pages.At end of 2013, I've joined a company that was on the edge of the change in telecoms and it was terribly hard to keep up with the work there. Luckily currently things are changing and the environment is becoming more organized. I hope my life will get stabilized because of it.During those years I moved towards IT more

Juniper QFX running on ESXi

2016-12-29T16:12:00.001+01:00

Because of my day to day job I'm spinning around networking more and more. Which is not that bad if you ask me. Up until some time ago I was, and I think it's not only me, taking routing/switching for granted - yet another transport layer. The more I'm getting into it.. it stays as boring as it always was. (joke, but it's boring) No matter how your views on R/S are recently I found something

LTE EPC Technology Essentials - Workshop

2016-03-22T22:47:00.003+01:00

Few days ago one of my colleagues, Hussien Mahmoud, made slide deck. He shared this slide deck with everyone, I'm here just re-sharing it with you, it's really worth it. All 157 (sic!) packed with knowledge slides, with quality graphics that shows the most important. Has anyone of you ever tried chicken consomme? It's a soup, like chicken broth but clear and reduced, where flavor is so intense

Affirmed Networks - Happy to be part of the future

2015-08-19T12:39:00.000+02:00

Some of you know, some of you may know that I work for Affirmed Networks from end of 2013. All this time to now was a fast joy ride. We got coverage in Feb/2014 because of the AT&T. [...] In addition, Affirmed Networks, Inc., has been chosen to work with AT&T on a virtualized Evolved Packet Core (EPC). [...] Source: http://www.att.com/ I was dead busy, so blog went on side track

Cable operators becoming MVNO

2015-07-08T16:34:00.001+02:00

Wanted to share good article. It's some promotional thing for their product, but it's decent piece of information. Wanted to share good article. It's some promotional thing for their product, but it's decent piece of information. I cannot say if advertised products are good or bad, but article itself is a decent one. This is where the Telecom walks now. Cable operators becoming MVNO: a

Bootstrapping server function (BSF) in LTE

2014-03-20T12:27:00.002+01:00

Recently I faced question about role of Bootstrapping Server Function (BSF) function in the LTE network, this made me thinking and digging. On the end I decided to share this woit you in case anyone has ever wondered about that. So what is the role of BSF in LTE? The BSF queries the Subscriber Locator Function (SLF) over Dz interface, which is Diameter based, to get the name of the HSS

Resource: SIM Card Forensics - Introduction

2014-01-15T08:34:00.000+01:00

Just few moments ago I have found quite interesting article that covers in details how the SIM card is build and works. Maybe for Terminal-side guys this is obvious but myself I found few new things for myself. As the title says this is just introduction, more information could be coming. SIM Structure and File Systems A SIM card contains a processor and operating system with between 16 and

Combined Attach in LTE/4G

2014-01-14T23:53:00.001+01:00

Some time ago I'v covere the Attach Procedure, from then many times I saw questions about the Combined Attach. So here it is, the Combined Attach himself. First it has to be addressed what is the Combined Attach and why it's so different from Attach procedure already covered. What Combined Attach is?