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Enea offers a full spectrum of porting, consultation, training, certification, compliance, and customization services to meet the unique needs of OEMs, TEMs, and operators.  Leverage more than 40 years of telecom protocol development, training, standards compliance and customization experience. Contact Enea for more information about Netbricks services.

V42-BRICKS

Enea Netbricks Line of Protocols for Error Correction and Data Compression

Enea offers a wide range of highly portable telecom protocol stacks for TDM, 3G, IMS, and NGN networks, as well as fax and data transfer protocols and signal processing and analysis software. All Enea Netbricks protocols stacks are compliant with ITU, ETSI, ANSI, IETF, 3GPP, and many other standards bodies’ specifications. 

All of Enea Netbricks protocols are written in ANSI C and take advantage of a modular, portable architecture that allows hardware platform and compiler independence. Enea Netbricks protocols are provided in source code to over 400 network equipment providers (NEPs), and device OEMs worldwide, assisting them in getting products to market quickly, with very low risk and significantly reduced development costs.

  • Portable protocol stacks compliant with protocol standards as published by the key standards bodies around the world (ITU, ETSI, ANSI, IETF, 3GPP).
  • Supplied as source code.
  • Used by over 400 global, industry leading telecommunications equipment manufacturers and OEMs.
  • Backed by over 20 years of protocol development expertise and 40 years of telecom software expertise.

ENEA V42-BRICKS is a source code software product belonging to Netbricks™ product line that provides error correction (LAPM) and data compression in conformance with ITU V.42 and ITU V.42bis recommendations. Support for MNP4 and MNP5 is included.


Software components implementing error correction and data compression are under control of a control function layer according to ITU-T V.42 recommendation overall architecture description.

Featured Case Study

Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users.  As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband access, carrier and enterprise IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move.


Nortel Networks’ next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries around the world.

Featured Alliances

RMI Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company providing High-Performance Super System-on-a-Chip (SuperSoC™) Processor solutions for the Infrastructure, Enterprise, and Consumer Media markets. Applications include Wireless, Networking Security, Thin Clients, and Connected Multi-Media.

MontaVista Software invented embedded Linux commercialization in 1999 to give device designers a platform to deliver the best possible product in the shortest possible time. Since then, due to growth and innovation MontaVista has remained the leading company in this category.
  • V42-Bricks is designed to work with PSTN (ACU-Bricks) and ISDN (ISDN-Bricks) signaling provided by Netbricks and with Netbricks FAX-Bricks and ISDN Terminal Adapter architecture (AT commands driven).
  • Netbricks provided a drivers for modem chipsets (Conexant, Motorola) and a driver for supporting modem modulations : V.21, V.22, V.22bis, V.32, V.32bis using SOFTMODEM-Bricks and also Audio processing for PSTN signaling (DTMF, CNG, CED).
  • V42-Bricks architecture is based on Enea Netbricks architecture using object oriented design and amessage passing mechanism for inter-entity communication. V42-Bricks is designed to process arough synchronous byte stream or to support HDLC controller. Interfaces to most of commercial RTOS including Enea OSE are provided.

V42-BRICKS is a source code software solution that provides error correction (LAPM) and data compression in conformance with ITU V.42 and ITU V.42bis recommendations. Support for MNP4 and MNP5 is included.