MB XENO-LINK
Personalization Software for Chip Personalization
MB XENO-LINK is a platform that provides an integrative and distributed approach to chip personalization. The distributed nature of MB XENO-LINK improves the scalability and maintainability of chip personalization solutions for larger personalization centers and for a number of small personalization offices spread across a large geographic region. In both cases, MB XENO-LINK helps keep the cost of maintaining MB MCES encoding applications independent of the number of personalization units involved.
Key Features
- MB XENO-LINK job manager user interface (GUI) to generate and distribute personalization jobs
- Connectivity for XenoLink clients on personalization equipment
- Unified coding application code base throughout personalization center
- Execution of Mühlbauer coding applications
- Provision of connectivity to Key Management System and HSM
- Administration of clients and licenses
- Centralized Chip Coding Application
- Centralized Hardware Security Module (HSM)
MB XENO-LINK Server
MB XENO-LINK is the Chip Coding Server that uses Mühlbauer Coding Applications and runs them on any hardware that is integrated to support MB XENO-LINK server. The MB XENO-LINK client implements the connection from the MB XENO-LINK server to the chip coding hardware. It encapsulates the communication from and to the card reader and communicates it to the MB XENO-LINK server. This allows the remote personalization of cards through the Coding Application from the XenoLink Server.
Mühlbauer Coding Applications
XenoLink utilizes the concept of Mühlbauer coding applications in order to reuse coding logic already developed within existing coding applications, and brings in separation layer between the generation of APDUs and the execution of the APDUs.
This layering concept enables the reuse of Mühlbauer coding applications on 3rd party personalization platforms by supplying native coding application which which implement the XenoProtocol and execute all commands received from XenoServer on a target platform using the native smart card communication framework.
XenoLink Client – 3rd Party Machine Integration
MB XENO-LINK enables personalizers to run the same code base on Mühlbauer personalization equipment as on 3rd party personalization machines. Moreover it provides the opportunity of setting up a unified operation of chip coding processes for the MB MCES personalization platform in heterogeneous personalization centers. The MB XENO-LINK client is installed as a coding application on the personalization system and it can be run in parallel to normal coding applications on the target platform.
Mühlbauer Group
Josef-Mühlbauer-Platz 1
93426 Roding Germany
Phone: +49 9461 952 0
Fax: +49 9461 952 1101
