Summary

We have 10 years of uninterrupted experience in full IT solutions design, implementation and technical support, such as core network (routing, servere, web, email,database, virtualization)and IP Convergence (SMS, voice, streaming/IPTV).


For maximum uptime we have invested in research to find high-availabilty solutions and in our own datacenter.

We've put a lot of passion and resources in the IT security of our clients.

Based on the internal work tickets we've made out a list containing the fields and the technologies that we hold experience in:

1. IP and basic Internet/Intranet technologies

  • NOC for ISP/Datacenter (support and monitoring)
  • network interconnections
  • routing
  • routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, RIP)
  • tunneling, VPN (IPSEC, openvpn, l2tp, PPTP)
  • firewall (NAT, SNAT, DNAT, Cisco ACL, packet inspection, packet modification, priority set-up, TOS)
  • traffic shapping
  • transport technologies: Wireless, VSAT/satellite, GPRS/3G, CDMA, Bluetooth, dial-up/POTS, rented lines, xDSL (ADSL,SDSL,VDSL), optic fibre
  • equipment: Linux, Cisco, Nortel
  • switching: VLANs, VTP, STP, trunking, bonding/teaming
  • DNS name servers (dynamic updates, views, zone, delegation, TTL), DHCP, FTP, SSH, NTP, NFS, VNC/RDP, SNMP, PPP, PPPoE
  • Proxy, reverse proxy
  • resource allocation, item development and update in the Internet Registry (e.g.: RIPE)
  • IP capture portals
  • IPv6 migration

2. Servers and other equipment. Installation and maintenance

  • server installation and configuration (OS installation, drivers, firmware updates, base configuration and security)
  • procedure development
  • Linux (RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Mandriva, etc), Cisco, Windows
  • software updates
  • configurations and optimizations specific to the most common server brands (IBM, HP, Intel, Supermicro, Dell)
  • hardware: sizing, acquisition, installation, diagnostics, repair
  • parameter monitoring (hardware condition, connectivity, temperature, etc)
  • backups, RAID, LVM
  • embedded systems: remote printing, wireless printing (EPSON, Siemens TC45, wireless access points)

3. SMS and cellphone services

  • direct interconnections in SMSCs for short numbers (e.g.: 12XX, 18XX) in Romania, Switzerland, Spain
  • protocols: UCP/EMI, SMPP, CIMD
  • interconnection with other systems over the Internet (e.g.: web applications, payment systems, monitoring applications)
  • routing and billing
  • SMS applications (e.g.: biorhythm, horoscope, chat, contests, hangman, couple-meter, games, sms2email, lottery, email2sms, ringtones, logo, message filtration/rating)
  • interactive applications for television and radio (Atomic TV, National TV, Realitatea, OTV, Kanal D, Party TV, Taraf TV, Europa FM, Radio 21, etc)
  • reverse billing (charge through MT)
  • special functionalities: multi-part messages, flash SMS, delivery reports
  • support for billing and clearing activities
  • interconnection with the graphical television machines
  • support and monitoring (NOC (network operations centre)
  • SMS payment services
  • WAP/WML services, charged through WAP
  • MMS services

4. Voice (VoIP/TDM)

  • TDM and VoIP interconnections on 4 continents
  • Call origination, transit and ending services implementation and maintenance
  • VoIP (SIP, H.323, IAX)
  • TDM (E1, ISDN PRA/BRA, R2, E&M)
  • telephone equipment installation and support (Alcatel, Siemens, Iskratel) and IP (Asterisk, Cisco, Quintum, Nextone, Gnugk, ser, yate etc)
  • ATA-based origination solutions implementation (Cisco, Linksys, Sipura, Audiocodes) and softphones (Xlite)
  • NOC services for ITSP (route configuration and testing, monitoring and intervention based on ASR/ACD)
  • support for billing and clearing activities
  • IVR (Interactive voice response) (company applications, interconnected with databases, call centre, call record, CLI change, voice transformation/mixing)
  • voice operation applications, voice recognition
  • fax services, call-back, videoconference over IP

5. Streaming / IPTV

  • RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPE (Adobe FMS, Wowza Media Server) and Shoutcast-based, Darwin and video and audio streaming
  • codec: H264, MP3, MPEG, AAC+
  • containers: FLV, MP4, MPEG, etc
  • encoding, transcoding, container recording/replacement, registration
  • audio live broadcasting system national level via IP
  • STB (Set Top Boxes) - Amino, LG. IP multicast technology, IGMP, IGMP snooping
  • Content protection and DRM
  • load testing

6. WEB

  • web applications installation and configuration
  • HTTP, HTTPS, virtual hosting, mass virtual hosting
  • Apache, varnish, ngnix, lighttpd, thttpd, squid
  • debugging, web applications optimization for intense traffic
  • massive setups, caching, reverse proxies
  • optimization and support for common applications (Wordpress, Typo3, Joomla, Drupal, Mediawiki, phpBB, phpMyAdmin/phPgAdmin)
  • uploading tests
  • plesk/cpanel
  • php acceleration and web services

7. EMAIL

  • SMTP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP relays
  • server side antivirus and antispam technologies
  • e-mail deliverability
  • DKIM, SPF, grey listing, RBL, whitelists/blacklists
  • Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, MS Exchange
  • webmail interfaces
  • e-mail lists
  • transport security (SSL/TLS (Secure socket layer/Transport Security)) and client/server authentication based on certificates
  • e-mail signing/encryption solutions

8. Databases

  • planning and implementation
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL
  • LDAP
  • replication and clustering
  • optimization
  • proxy, query rewriting, r/w splitting, sharing

9. NOC (Network Operations Center)

  • monitoring
  • SLA (Service Level Agreement) monitoring
  • fast intervention and incident management
  • installation and expansion of automatic monitoring and warning system capabilities (e.g.: warning through messenger, telephone voice call, SMS)
  • incident ticket systems
  • work procedures
  • knowledge base system documentation

10. IT security

  • servers and infrastructure securing against IT attacks
  • security audit, pen testing
  • SSL certificates for client or server authentication
  • hardware token authentication
  • card transactions
  • IT solution security monitoring procedures
  • security incident intervention (tiger team)
  • IDS (Intrusion detection support) / IPS (intrusion prevention support) systems
  • mitigation against SQL injections, flood, DOS, DDOS, buffer overflows, XSS
  • honeynet systems
  • public keys sharing infrastructure (key server)

11. Clustering/HA (High-Availability)

  • server and router clustering for high availability
  • load-balancing
  • automatic failover
  • scalability, virtualization for fast deployment
  • SPFs (Single Point of Failure) removal
  • experience in traffic spikes management
  • shared file systems, shared storage
  • private cloud/public cloud solutions

12. Server virtualization

  • technologies: openvz, Parallels, Xen, Vmware, Hyper-V
  • migration, live migration (without stopping the service)
  • cloning
  • templating
  • physical machines conversion into virtual machines

13. Datacenter/Dataroom

  • planning the electrical infrastructure, grounding works
  • generating sets, automatic start-up
  • HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), BTU (British Thermal Unit) planning
  • fireproof protections
  • temperature, humidity, smoke sensors monitoring
  • UPSs (uninterruptible power sources)
  • rack, KVM, KVM IP systems
  • physical security systems (access control/against house breaking) and warning
  • video monitoring, movement detection

14. Programming

  • network applications programming
  • programming languages: (C, Perl, PHP, Java, regex)
  • Linux kernel changes
  • web applications programming (CRM, ERP, other Intranet applications, billing, complex websites)
  • programming optimization and securing
  • Internet information harvesting (spiders/bots)
  • applications for card transactions (e.g.: Romcard)

15. Other technologies

  • GPS technology
  • GIS, postgis, mapping
  • graphical television machines interconnection (Playbox, Magicsoft), SDI/ASI
  • upload TV signal on satellite
  • API messenger
  • audio processing, frequency analysis

16. Consultancy and Project Management

  • consultancy
  • planning, solution specifications and project plans
  • research
  • assistance and/or acquisitions of complex IT technologies
  • project management


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