2020 is going to be an exciting year for our customers. We
will update our ASN.1 and NAS Tools to support 3GPP LTE and 5G Releases 15 and
16. In addition to enhancing our existing tools with new value added features,
we will also introduce new NAS/C# Tools for LTE and 5G as well as our new S1/X2
ASN.1 API for Java.
The ASN.1
Tools will be upgraded to support LTE and 5G Releases 15 and 16. The OSS NAS/C, NAS/C++, and NAS/Java Tools, and
NAS-1Step will be available for LTE and 5G Release 16.
Following
the success of our NAS/C, NAS/C++, NAS/Java and NAS-1Step Tools, we are
releasing the first version of our NAS/C# Tools available for LTE and 5G
Release 16 in the second half of 2020. Users will be able to serialize/parse
NAS messages from/to C# objects. In addition, the Tools will provide direct
conversion of NAS messages to XML or JSON format.
This year
OSS is releasing our new S1/X2 ASN.1 API for Java supporting LTE
Releases 14 and 15. This API will significantly reduce your S1/X2 protocol
implementation efforts and provide an easier and less error prone upgrade path
to newer 3GPP Releases. In addition, OSS will be updating the existing S1/X2
ASN.1 APIs for C and Java to support LTE Release 16 in 3Q2020.
ASN.1
Studio will be enhanced to automatically create
several messages based on an input ASN.1 specification. This feature is
particularly useful for customers when testing, as it will automatically
generate several different types of test messages for their specification.
The ASN.1/C#
Tools will support partial decoding to
enable you to quickly decode preselected fields from incoming messages. A
significant advantage of using partial decoding is that, when looking for a
particular component in a large message, you can directly receive the value of
the component you are looking for without having to navigate through the large
message structure. This feature is useful in many application areas including
Lawful Intercept, routers, protocol analyzers, and Self-Organizing Networks
(SON).
3GPP is
currently working on Release 16 which is expected to be finalized by
June 2020. This Release will include support for Multimedia Priority Service,
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) application layer services, 5G satellite access,
Local Area Network support in 5G, wireless and wireline convergence for 5G,
terminal positioning and location, communications in vertical domains, network
automation, and novel radio techniques, etc. The OSS ASN.1 Tools will support
Release 16. New samples will be added and existing samples will
be updated to demonstrate how Release 16 ASN.1 based protocols can be used with
the OSS ASN.1 Tools.
3GPP Protocol Based Products
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Availability
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3GPP LTE Release 15 Support
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3GPP LTE Release 16 Support
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3GPP 5G Release 15 Support
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3GPP 5G Release 16 Support
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NAS/C
LTE
|
Now
|
1Q2020
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N/A
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N/A
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NAS/C
5G
|
N/A
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N/A
|
Now
|
2Q2020
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NAS/C++
LTE
|
Now
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1Q2020
|
N/A
|
N/A
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NAS/C++
5G
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Now
|
2Q2020
|
NAS/Java
LTE
|
Now
|
1Q2020
|
N/A
|
N/A
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NAS/Java
5G
|
N/A
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N/A
|
Now
|
3Q2020
|
NAS-1Step
LTE
|
Now
|
1Q2020
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
NAS-1Step
5G
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Now
|
2Q2020
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NAS/C#
LTE
|
N/A
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3Q2020
|
N/A
|
N/A
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NAS/C#
5G
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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3Q2020
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S1/X2
ASN.1 API for C
|
Now
|
3Q2020
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N/A
|
N/A
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S1/X2
ASN.1 API for Java
|
1Q2020
|
3Q2020
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N/A
|
N/A
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N/A - Not
Applicable
