Democratize data for network operations teams, network IT teams and business users alike.

Decode, transform and analyze your network CDRs right from the source all the way to analytics.


Reprocess.

Use CDR decoder to catch up on backlogs or to reprocess records in case of sytem corruption. 

Troubleshoot.

Investigate and correct errors in records using CDR decoder single mode. 

JIT insights.

Visualize and get insights from your data as soon as they leave the network element.

Serverless.

Complete serverless solution with pay per use model, no servers to manage. High availablity built-in.  

History of ASN.1

Abstract Syntax Notation One is a standard interface description language for defining data structures that can be serialized and deserialized in a cross-platform way. It is broadly used in telecommunications and computer networking, and especially in cryptography.Wikipedia/ASN.1

 

 

Universal Tag Number Description
0 reserved for BER
1 BOOLEAN
2 INTEGER
3 BIT STRING
4 OCTET STRING
5 NULL
6 OBJECT IDENTIFIER
7 ObjectDescriptor
8 INSTANCE OF, EXTERNAL
9 REAL
10 ENUMERATED
11 EMBEDDED PDV
12 UTF8String
13 RELATIVE-OID
16 SEQUENCE, SEQUENCE OF
17 SET, SET OF
18 NumericString
19 PrintableString
20 TeletexString, T61String
21 VideotexString
22 IA5String
23 UTCTime
24 GeneralizedTime
25 GraphicString
26 VisibleString, ISO646String
27 GeneralString
28 UniversalString
29 CHARACTER STRING
30 BMPString

 

Trulli
ASN.1/BER Tag Length Value
Trulli
Decoded file without data definition

 

The specification started in 1995 and still going strong. it is predmoinantly used in 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G.

Example usage:

- GSMA Transferred Account Procedures - TAP (GSMA TD.57)

- GSMA Near Real Time Roaming Data Exchange -NRTRDE (GSMA NRTRDE TD.3)

- 3GPP Charging Function - CHF CDR (3GPP TS 32.298 V16.8.0)

- Vendor (Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, ZTE,...) proprietry CDRs

Comercial (Paid) tooling:

- GSMA  TTT (TAP Testing Toolkit)

- OSS Nokalva (asn1.io)

- Marben

- Objective Systems, Inc 

 

CSP status quo

Typical workflow

*** NEs/ CCS -> Mediation system -> ETL system –> DWH/Billing/RA -> BI/Analytics  ***

 

• Nightly Batch jobs, reports are available 24 hours later. 

• Complex CDR types, schemas require special software and business logic. 

 

Solution benefits:

 • Works as single and batch modes (at scale).

 • Serverless, pay when used (almost).

 • Open-source tooling for ASN.1 decoding (break free from licensing).

 • User friendly ETL services, no expensive software licenses.

 • Processing of a copy of the data from the source data doesn’t burden mission critical systems.