IPXPlorer - Analyser
Test legacy and next generation networks, services and applications (IP, VoIP, IPTV, SS#7, Sigtran, IMS, Media Gateways and UMTS-3GPP-GPRS.
The IPXPlorer family:
IPXPlorer One - The personal Portable Solution
- Compact portable instrument (pictured right)
- Up to four FE/GE and/or STM1/OC3 with ATM support SFP based
- Four or eight PCM E1/T1/J1
- Netflow-IPFix Ethernet interface
- 2.5Kg with built in touch screen 7" LCD
- 3 USB and 1 eSata interface for keyboard, mouse etc
- Headphone and microphone jacks.
IPXPlorer Mod - The Remote Portable Solution
- Table top or rack mount unit
- 2.2Kg weight
- 320 GB hard drive
- Application as Probe or Single appliance
- Data and result delivery to external system by FTP through the management port
- Client server web based control.
IPXPlorer Flex 1 and Flex 2 - The Network Solution
- 1u or 3u 19" rack mount models available
- 4 to 16 LAN GE/SDH-SONET analysis ports
- 2 management ports
- Built in storage
- Web interface for up to 6 or 12 clients.
- 1.5Gbps or 2.5Gbps packet recording
- 4.5Gbps or 6Gbps data capturing.
Coming soon: IPXPlorer VR - The Voice Recording solution.
Measurement Interfaces
Number and combination of simultaneous interfaces is model dependant.
- LAN Fast and Giga Ethernet
- SDH/STM1 and OC3/SONET
- PCM E1/T1/J1
Protocols
Supports simultaneous analysis of different protocols over multiple interfaces and technologies such as:
| IP-Datacomm | PPoE, VLAN, UDP, TCP, RTP/RTCP, SCTP, RSVP, Multicast, and over 300 IP-based services including DNS, Radius, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP/FTPS, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, IM. |
| Voice over IP | SIP and H.323-H.225-H.245 based with RTP and RTCP support and Quality of Service real-time scoring system. |
| IPTV | Video on demand and video communication based on Unicast such as RTSP and Multicast with Transport Streams over RTP, UDP . Different coding systems like MPEG2, MPEG4, H264, H263, MP3, WM9 are supported. Quality of Service real-time scoring system. |
| SS#7-ITU: | TUP, ISUP, SCCP, TCAP, MAP (multiple releases), CAMEL, INAP (CS1 + CS2). |
| SigTran: | SCTP, M2PA, M2UA, M3UA, SUA. |
| IMS: | Diameter, SIP-3GPP for video and audio calls, SIP-I, COPS. |
| Media Gateways: | Megaco-H.248, SIP-T. |
| UMTS-3GPP-GPRS | IuPS, GPRS Gb, Gi, Gn and Gp. |
Analysis and Results
- Traffic breakdown
- Trend analysis
- IPDR generation for the most significant services transported by the data stream
- Quality of service scoring for the datacom, voice and video over packet based on latency, response time and packet loss measurements
- Key performance indicators
- Alarms: IPXPlorer generates alarms based on programmable conditions to the operator or a centralised syslog server
- Protocol decodes and data stream correlation with graphical representation of end-to-end data flows
- Integration of data coming from Netflow v5, v9 and IPFix providers
- Built in reporting engine for graphical and tabular reports (exportable in various standard formats)
- Multimedia stream analysis of live or previously captured data
- Data import and export to PCAP and ENC format files
- Data recording to hard disk. Packets and frames are stored in PCAP 2.4 format.
Storage
- IPXPlorer products have built in hard disks for storage of configuration, data, result, packets-frame, reports and xDR recording. Storage size from 100 GB to 8 GB depending on the model.
- External eSata disks or Storage Area Network solution can be added to extend the data storage capacity.
Performance
- Wire speed traffic capture and filtering
- Minimum of 600,000 packets per second real-time analysis. Analysis performance figures vary depending on the model
- For SS#7 LSL and HSL, 1 Erlang per signalling link is supported
- Frame and packet off-load and filtering technology M-CEF allows maximum network resources without slowdowns or outages. The Mutech Cognition Engine Filters M-CEF combine high speed dedicated flows tagging system, signalling and payload pattern comparison hardware logic, software algorithms for protocol events and programmable recognition of specific data stream sequences.
- Over 300 Mbps data recording on disk for IPXPlorer One and Mod models and 2Gps for IPXPlorer Flex.