A 2-pager about my company and flagship product.

1. Quad Core @ Balin
Rahul Tandon PMP is a Computer Science graduate (1992) from
University of Mysore and an IT professional with 18 years of rich
experience in managing large scale enterprise technology projects in the
Telecom, Data analytics and CRM sector. He has worked on enterprise
suites of products for Avaya and Teradata and handled project deliveries Balin Tech Labs
for several OSS/BSS businesses.
Avinash Dhumane is Computer Science graduate (1992) from University
Extreme
of Pune, India and also holds a post graduate diploma (1996) from the
National Center for Software Technology, Mumbai, India. He has over 16
years of strong technical experience in the finance and telecom verticals,
having executed several projects for Openwave, mBlox, NCR France,
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) to name a few. He specializes in
Transaction
Processing
architecting complex, distributed, massively scalable, fault tolerant
transaction processing applications.
Vinayak Pawar is a Computer Engineering graduate (2002) from SDM
College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad, India. A technocrat in (XTP)
distributed computing and application software fault-tolerance, he is also
an expert trouble shooter and expert in several technology stacks.
Customers like Openwave and mBlox have depended heavily on his single
-handed capability of delivering large volumes of industrial strength
software ahead of schedule.
Ali Mohsin Ranalvi is a Computer Engineering graduate (2003) from MIT,
Pune, India and also holds a Masters degree in Computer Science (2009)
151, Churchill Court,
from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. An astute software Clover Village, Wanwadi
professional with 4+ years of work experience, he is extremely versatile Pune 411040, MH India
in delivering the needs of the hour, may it be critical pieces of large-scale
URL: www.balinlabs.com
carrier-grade software or cross-platform mobile applications, or getting Phone: 91 20 4009 2791 The XTP Experts.
industry people at various levels to resonate with his sales pitches. E-mail: info@balinlabs.com

2. About The Company Products & Solutions
Balin Labs is founded with the sole objective of producing extreme transaction processing Balin's flagship product for extreme Mobile Business Enablement
(XTP) technologies that leverage commodity hardware and operating systems to transaction processing, SimpleTX, is Balin has used its domain expertise to produce
significantly reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of data centers deploying carrier- basically a white-box engine comprising a mobile billing and delivery solution on top of
grade IT systems. These systems are built to deliver full functionality along with the four of ready to use libraries, catalog of the SimpleTX platform, targeted towards
quintessential Quality of Service (QoS) features - reliability, availability, scalability and patterns, boiler-plate code, skeletons, mobile transaction aggregators and operators.
extensibility. APIs, partially fleshed out frameworks, This solution provides the ability to deliver any
and fully automated testware. Thus data to mobile phone and bill for any service to
Balin Tech Labs adopts a pragmatic and elastic approach for application fault tolerance
SimpleTX serves as a light weight, agile, mobile phone-account, across operators and
and horizontal scalability - scale out rather than scale up! Traditionally, fault tolerance
‘small-is-beautiful’ development geographies around the world. The solution
has been achieved in mission-critical businesses such as banking, stock exchanges and
platform for quickly transforming provides a consistent, cohesive and uniform
emergency services through the use of ‘fault
customer use cases into a fully- interface towards mobile businesses (content
tolerant boxes’. In essence, these boxes package
functional and vibrant XTP application providers); it also integrates and encapsulates
collocated Dual/Triple Modular Redundancy
with desired QoS performance. mobile operators' disparate interfaces, such as
(DMR/TMR) hardware components along with
bill-before/bill-after delivery, 1-step/2-step
specialized operating systems providing complex
Due to its un-manifested nature, this billing and signing for delivery/billing mandates
transaction and session management APIs.
product by itself is not offered out-of- over Web/WAP-based panels.
While some businesses may merit and absorb
the associated high costs of these boxes, but for the-box. Rather, Balin seeks customers'
a vast majority of businesses these remain simply use cases first, and then the application
unattainable, even overkill. Instead, Balin Tech is built by embedding the required
Labs relies on highly distributed application engine pieces for data, execution and
architectures built atop commodity hardware like desktop-class PCs and operating communication fault-tolerance within
systems like Linux to provide comparable QoS levels at the lowest possible TCO. to provide a tailor-made, packaged
solution. Thus, the customers do not
We at Balin Tech Labs, realize that there is no single ‘one-size-fits-all’ XTP technology. The have to source expensive fault tolerance Advanced features like L3 transaction routing,
whole gamut of field-deployed technologies such as TPM, DBMS, MOM, Cache, EAS and platform from one vendor, XTP delivery to ported and roaming mobile
ESB are steadily awakening to the XTP computing paradigm, rolling out associated technologies from another, and lastly numbers, automatic flow control, quota
variants of their products. Instead of moulding the customer’s use cases within the pay separately, perhaps to yet another administration, multilevel blacklist/whitelist
workable boundaries of some of these XTP-enabled technologies, Balin takes a focused vendor, for application development. across partners and operators, and externalized
customer-centric approach. The functional and QoS requirements of the desired system Balin aims to deliver a final, end-to-end transactional control flows using Decision
are thoroughly understood first, and then the requisite tools and technologies employed and integrated solution adhering to QoS Tables are supported. This solution is
to deliver an optimal solution that guarantees the lowest TCO. requirements to its customers at an customizable for mobile enablement of almost
affordable price. any business, not limited to billing or delivery.