IPXPlorer Flex

January 2010

Product Brochure

The Solution For Total Network Visibility

Product Overview

Competitive Advantage within Network Services requires Flexible Analysis Tools

IPXPlorer Flex is a rack mount solution for data and telecommunication centers. The Performances, Large Storage, and Analysis capabilities make IPXPlorer Flex the perfect tool for Network Monitoring of high speed and volume services such as: Mobile Broadband IP-MBB, Next Generation IP -NGN based tele-phony applications, Video on Demand and IPTV, Calls and Data centers, IP Core, and any network carrying User, Control, and Transport planes data.

Reduce OpeRatiOnal cOstsIPXPlorer Flex is a rack mount probe system ca-pable of hosting a large number of physical ports and multiple Terabytes of disk storage for long term data recording, storage-forward function, or simply as a remote monitoring unit.

IPXPlorer Flex is available in 19 inches rack from 1 to 4 units height, hosting multiple monitoring interfaces, from 4 to 24 Gigabits Ethernet, STM1/OC3, 2 or 4 10 Gigabits Ethernet, and from 8 to 48 E1, T1, and J1.

IPXPlorer Flex has a built-in disk storage size from 0.5 to 48 Terabytes depending by model.

IPXPlorer Flex remotely analyzes, measures traffic and quality of services; pro actively discovers problems in communication systems; provides in-depth service analysis; and generates protocol traces and filtering for legacy TCP/IPv4 and IPv6 data and telecommunication networks AND Next Generation Networks NGN includ-ing IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS and Packet Switch-ing planes for 2,5G, 3G and 4G mobile networks. Enables monitoring with an all-around approach of Trunk, Me-dia and Signaling Gateways for signalling and payload traffic analysis and events correlation.

Models and MeasureMent Interfaces

Supports multiple interchangeable Small Form Plug- SFP for FE/GE and SDH/SONET, SFP+ for 10GE, and PCM physical in-terfaces. Physical ports can be a combination of: Fast and Gigabits Ethernet LAN:

Supports 10 and 100 Mbps half and full duplex and GE FDX. Electrical, Single and multiple mode Optical Ethernet SFP available.

10 Giga Ethernet LAN: Supports 10 GE full duplex.. Optical 850nm Multiple mode and 1330nm Single mode Ethernet SFP+ available.

SDH/SONET in Frame Mode: ITU G.707 SDH STM-1 and GR-253 SONET STS-3/3c. VC11/VC12 demux to extract 256 bidirectional time slots from eight E1/T1 tributaries.

SDH/SONET in Cell-ATM Mode: ITU I.361 and I.363.5 Cell Operation with ATM Adapta-tion Layer 5- AAL5.

PCM E1-ITU G.703, T1-ANSI T1.408, and J1: Terminated and High Impedance operations. Balanced 100-120 Ohm and unbalanced 75 Ohm. PCM Time slots Framed operation with capabilities to analysis 248 bidirectional time slots as Low speed SS#7 Signalling Links- LSL or A-law and mu-law voice channels.

Unframed or aggregate 1,920 Mbps as for ITU Q.703 Annex A, High speed Signalling Links- HSL for B-ISDN SS#7 system.

The FE/GE ports can also collect Cisco NetFlow v.5/v.9 and IPFix (RFC3917-3955) streams for data acquisition and analysis.

All the Flex models with the exception of Flex 0 are equipped with redundant AC Power Supply. DC Power Supply is avail-able as option.

Please refer to the table in the next page for ports and stor-age configuration.

PerforMance

IPXPlorer Flex combines hardware and software to reach the highest performance within the market for IP and NGN probes, such as:

Wire speed traffic capture and filtering. Physical and Link Layers statistics including bandwidth and traffic calcula-tion exceed the 6 Gbps running speed. From 0.9 to 2.5 million packets per second real-time analysis (*) Packets and Frames recording speed (PCAP format): from 0.5 Gbps to 4.5 Gbps (*) For SS#7 low and high speed signaling links, 1 Erlang per signaling link is supported.

(*) Figures vary depending by model and disk configuration

Quality is what the Customer Perceives

IPXPlorer Flex allows the Service and Network Providers to monitor remotely virtually any kind of data, video or voice applications running in a network. Thus reducing truck-rolls and windshield-time.

pRedict YOuR custOmeRs expeRience IPXPlorer Flex generates alarms for service and network anomalies that provide Customer Service Teams a pro-active approach to problem detection before the fault is perceived by the customer.

IPXPlorer Flex is a turnkey probe that is ready out of the box to deliver results to a centralized system and server. It supports multiple Clients simultaneously and any user can access the remote IPXPlorer Flex through a simple and immediate Web-based Graphical User Interface run-ning on their own computer.

The most significant IPXPlorer Flex deployment meth-ods are:

y As a standalone troubleshooting and monitoring unit controlled remotely with a web browser.

y As an unattended continuous data recorder or program-mable alarms based start and stop data recording.

y As a remote probe operating as a component of the QXManager Centrex Viewer as part of MIP-DMA the MuTech IP-Distributed Monitoring Architecture.

y As a probe delivering results to third-party NMS, surveil-lance, or monitoring systems.

The most significant network services and applications supported are:

y Data Networks: IP v.4 and v.6 traffic distribution, network performance, applications alarming, and trend analysis.

y Multimedia Services: IPTV and Video on Demand -VoD in-depth traffic investigation with QoE scoring including MDI and MOS.

y WEB 2.0 Service: support of http, smtp, pop3, imap, ftp, rtsp, radius, diameter, dns, and other over 300 services for data, audio, and video streaming on IP v4 and v6.

IPXPlorer fleX 1

It is 1 unit 19 rack mount probe with 4-8 GE or STM1/OC3, or 8-16 PCM physical ports. It hosts from 0.5 up to 8 TB storage with hot-swappable hard-drives.

IPXPlorer fleX 2

It is 2 units 19 rack mount probe with 4 GE or STM1/OC3, and/or 8-32 PCM physical ports. It hosts from 0.5 up to 6 TB storage with hot-swappable hard-drives.

To Data Collector Serveror Network Management System

Operator

Administrator

Operator

IPXPlorer Flex 2 has been designed as low cost probe for SigTran, SS7/MTP, IuCS/A, OLOs, and Roaming Applications

IPXPlorer Flex 1 supports 8 Ethernet and/or SDH/SONET ports in 1 unit rack mount

IPXPlorer Flex can be deployed widely in the Network for Multiple Applications and Operator accesses

General MonitoringPorts Storage Accesses HotSwappable

Model FormatFE/GE

EthernetSFP

STM1-OC3SFP

10GESFP+

E1-T1-J1 TBytes

Users&Sessions ACPS DCPS

DiskBays

IPXPlorerFlex1 Rack191U 8 8 - 16 0.58 5 Redundant Notredundant 4

IPXPlorerFlex2 Rack192U 4 4 - 32 0.512 5 Redundant Notredundant 6

IPXPlorerFlex3 Rack193U 16 16 - 32 432 10 Redundant Redundant 16

IPXPlorerFlex4B Rack194U 24 24 - 48 848 10 Redundant Redundant 24

IPXPlorerFlex4A Rack194U 16 - 4 - 848 10 Redundant Redundant 24

Understanding Historical and Current Network Traffic Decreases Revenue Leakage

y Voice over IP Service: SIP and H323 analysis, audio on RTP with MOS calculation, recording and playback.

y Signalling Networks: Monitors over Circuit (MTP) and Packet (SigTran) switching technologies of ISUP, MAP, CAP, and INAP.

y Next Generation Networks: control plane (signalling), transport plane, and user plane (payload) analysis for packet switching services including Megaco.

y IP Multimedia Subsystem: analysis of IP-based services on IMS for voice, data and video in according with 3GPP specifications

innOvatiOnThe IPXPlorer product family has many innovative solu-tions that provide the user with the best and most easy to use tool for traffic analysis, service quality measure, and for troubleshooting unusual network situations.

ASDR-Application Service Details Record, AFE- Anomalies Finder Engine, and M-CEF- MuTech Cogni-tion Engine Filters for high speed traffic and signaling patterns comparison are just some examples of the in-novations inside IPXPlorer Flex. Correlation is another example of an innovative function.

tRaffic cORRelatiOnCorrelation in the IPXPlorer Flex is the ability to link to-gether data exchange sessions such as TCP transactions for services like HTTP, DNS, RADIUS, RTSP,-VoD, MMS, WAP, IPTV, IP and legacy telephony calls, IMS and IuCS calls and transactions, PDP context from GnGp and IuPS interfaces, and any signaling based-procedures which belong to different protocols running on different types

of physical interfaces and are part of the same end-to-end user communication.

When IPXPlorer Flex is connected to the different net-work element monitoring points, it has the ability to analyze the data and find the message parts belonging to the same session. With this, the user can see the com-plete end-to-end data exchange.

The correlation in the IPXPlorer architecture is always based on xDR or better on ASDR. The intrinsic capabili-ty of ASDR to link packets and frames, allows the corre-lation engine to show the complete end-to-end process flow and the packet-frame flow as well.

All the xDRs are linked together in a single ASDR for every session and end-point activities.

From the ASDR, IPXPlorer extracts the xDR part of the same communication process. Then from the xDR it links the every packet or frame of the flow, including payload carrying the user traffic.

This xDR is linked with the others of the same end-point by the ASDR. Therefore, from the ASDR the IPXPlor-er Flex can link the traffic exchanged during a session over multiple interfaces being monitored and the logi-cal links between the different addresses existing in the system.

In the case of geographic distribution of probes, there are two levels of correlation: Site level and Network level.

The correlation at site level is managed by the MT-OS running on IPXPlorer Flex and all the data coming from different interfaces and protocols that are part of the same flow can be correlated together into an ASDR as explained previously.

IPXPlorer fleX 3

It is 3 units 19 rack mount probe with 16 GE or STM1/OC3, and/or 8-32 PCM physical ports. It hosts from 2 up to 32 TB storage with hot-swappable hard-drives.

IPXPlorer fleX 4a and B

It is 4 units 19 rack mount probe with 24 GE or STM1/OC3, and/or 8-48 PCM or 4 10GE physical ports (A Model) . It hosts from 8 up to 48 TB storage with hot-swappable hard-drives.

With 16 GE/STM1-OC3 and up to 32 TB IPX-Plorer Flex 3 is an attractive solution for high traffic volume analysis

With over 2 millions packets per second in real-time, IPXPlorer Flex 4 is one of the most performant pssive monitoring probe in the market.

Network Visibility Provides Insight

IPXPlorer Flex has a User-friendly GUI with a top down approach. All the results are shown divided by layers: from correlation, to applications,

down to network and physical analysis. The User navigates through the menu with a tree view presentation by clicking the specific node then selecting the

required analysis result screen.

The correlation at network level is delegated to the QX-Manager system or other customers server. The IPXPlor-er Flex generates xDR and delivers them to the central server that provides correlation between networks.

Key features

Real Time analysis is performed along with historical-recordedtrafficanalysis. IPXPlorer Flex records traffic and stores statistical data for long term monitoring and analysis. This function allows the users to navigate back in time and obtain statistical counters, like session attempts, or packets per seconds for a specific period of time. Results type varies from network performance, usage, pairs and services based traffic statistical analysis to a dashboard with speed performance indicators for the most active hosts, users, destinations, or top called-calling end points. IP and generic Details Record (IPDR and xDR) generation for the main services transported by the data stream being monitored. The xDR are aggregated in the Application Ser-vice Details Record, or ASDR. The ASDR gives a snapshot of the entire service session including traffic, quality, timing, and possible errors during the transportation, signaling, and payload exchange. Quality of Service scoring for Datacom, Voice, and Video over packet based on latency, response time and packets loss measurements, ITU G107-EModel, and MDI-RFC4445. Over 3000 Key Performance Indicators and programmable aggregation are generated based on xDR and ASDR for re-porting and alarming purposes. Alarms on service and network anomalies with Users pro-grammable thresholds and conditions. Troubleshooting features such as protocol decodes and data stream correlation with graphical representation of end-to-end data flows. WEB access to results and analysis. A browser supporting Adobe Flash Player is required. Built-in VNC remote control by browser. Multiple Users Operation. Users Operation. Up to ten Clients can access the unit at the same time.

IPXPlorer Flex manages dashboards that the User can create combining dif-ferent views of results, ASDR reports, alarms, real-time status, and historical

data analysis on the same screen. Each client can save multiple views and recall when necessary. IPXPlorer Flex provides the results of the analysis in tabular

and chart formats in 2D and 3D.

sPecIfIcatIons

Operating Temperature: 10 - 40C (50 - 100F) Operating Humidity: 0-85% at +40 C (100 F) not con-densed. Redundant hot swappable Universal AC 90-230Vac pow-er supply. DC power supply non-redundant available as option IPX-FLX-A-PLT1

Height: 43 mm. (1.7 in) Width: 437 mm. (17.2 in) Depth: 650 mm. (25.6 in) Gross Weight: 20 Kg (44.1 lbs)

IPX-FLX-A-PL2A: same of PX-FLX-A-PLT1 but: Height: 88 mm. (3.5 in) Gross Weight: 27 Kg (60.5 lbs)

IPX-FLX-A-PL3A: same of PX-FLX-A-PLT1 but: Height: 132 mm. (5.2 in) Gross Weight: 32,5 Kg (72 lbs)

IPX-FLX-A-PL4A: same of PX-FLX-A-PLT1 but: Height: 175 mm. (6.9 in) Gross Weight: 41 Kg (90 lbs)

IPX-FLX-A-PL4B: same of PX-FLX-A-PLT1 but: Height: 175 mm. (6.9 in) Gross Weight: 39,5 Kg (87 lbs)

Integration of data coming from Netflow v5, v9, and IP-Fix generators. Built-in reporting engine for graphical and tabular re-ports of the key statistical and analysis results. Reports are exportable in various standard formats such as pdf, csv, and xml. Multimedia streams analysis of live as well as playback of captured data for all the most popular codec. Data recording on hard disk drives. Packets and Frames are stored in PCAP 2.4 format. Data import and export from/to PCAP and ENC format files. Data Transfer between IPXPlorer Flex and external serv-er is made by FTP, SSH, or XML-RPC protocols. Optional GPS for site synchronization. Embedded Linux OS with Multiple-processors architec-ture

aPPlIcatIon suItes

A wide range of application suites are available for IPXPlorer to satisfy the requirements of various Users. ENTERPRISE Suite: Analysis Suite for IP services and En-terprise Environment. It includes Application Packages for the following services and protocols: Datacom over IPv4 and IPv6, Web, Ftp, Email, Dns, Access and Authenti-cation, Peer to Peer, Multicast, Voice-Telephone Services over IP (VoIP), and Quality of Service with MOS and MDI scoring. SIGNALLING CORE NETWORK Suite: Suite: Analysis Suite for SS#7 Signaling System over circuit and packet switching networks. It includes Application Packages for the following services and protocols: IPv4 and IPv6, Sig-Tran with M2UA, M2PA and M3UA, ISUP and TUP User Parts, SS#7 MAP 2G/3G, SS#7 CAMEL 2G/3G, SS#7 INAP, H248 and MGCP Controller to Media Gateway(s). MOBILE BROAD-BAND IP Suite: Analysis Suite for IP Mobile Broad Band over Packet Switching Planes. It in-cludes Application Packages for the following services and protocols: IPv4 and IPv6, Gi Interface, GTP -Gn and Gp Interfaces, Correlation between Gn, Gi, and Authen-tication (Radius, Diameter, Ldap), User Plane analysis for Web, Ftp, Email, Dns, Video streaming, and Peer to Peer Traffic. MOBILE CS Suite: Analysis Suite for Control and User Planes of Circuit Switching Mobile Network. It includes Application Packages for the following services and pro-tocols: IPv4 and IPv6, GSM A-Interface and IuCS traffic on IP for mobility, sms, and voice services based on circuit switching, H248 Controller to Media Gateway(s), IMS with SIP-3G and RTP/RTCP, SigTran with M2UA, M2PA and M3UA, ISUP and TUP User Parts, Bearer Independent Call Control -BICC, SS#7 MAP 2G/3G, SS#7 CAMEL 2G/3G, and Quality of Service with MOS and MDI scoring.

FULL MOBILE Suite: Analysis Suite for CS, PS, and IMS with Control and User Planes analysis. It Includes the MOBILE CS and the MOBILE BROAD-BAND IP suites to-gether with Application Packages for the following ser-vices and protocols: IuPS interface between RNC and SGSN, Gb interface between BSC and SGSN, correlation between IuPS, Gb, Gn and Gi. MULTIMEDIA Suite: Analysis Suite for Images, Voice, IPTV, and VoD with Quality of Services Scoring. It in-cludes Application Packages for the following services and protocols: IPv4 and IPv6, Web and Ftp, Video on De-mand -VoD based on RTSP, RTP with/without Transport stream, IPTV on Unicast and multicast with MPEG trans-port stream over RTP, Voice-Telephony Services over IP (VoIP), and Quality of Service with MOS and MDI scoring. NGN Suite: Analysis Suite for Next Generation Networks with Signaling, Interworking, Media, and QoS support. It includes Application Packages for the following services and protocols: IPv4 and IPv6, Web and Ftp, H248 and MGCP Controller to Media Gateway(s), Voice-Telephony Services over IP (VoIP), SigTran with M2UA, M2PA and M3UA, SS#7, ISUP and TUP User Parts, Bearer Indepen-dent Call Control -BICC, and Quality of Service with MOS and MDI scoring. TELEPHONY LEGACY Suite: Analysis Package for Legacy Telephony Environment. It Includes the following Appli-cation Packages: IPv4 and IPv6, H248 and MGCP Control-ler to Media Gateway(s), Voice-Telephony Services over IP (VoIP), SigTran with M2UA, M2PA and M3UA, ISUP and TUP User Parts, Bearer Independent Call Control -BICC, SS#7 MAP 2G/3G, SS#7 CAMEL 2G/3G, SS#7 INAP, and Quality of Service with MOS and MDI scoring. ROAMING and GRQ Suite: Analysis Package for Roaming and OLO (Other Licensed Operator) links. This suite provides a comprehensive analysis of the roaming activity of mobile user into a PLMN, the r call analysis between OLOs and the SMS and Data activities between operators, PLMNs, and APNs. The package includes the analysis specified in the IR.81 GRQ Measurement Implementation from GSM Associ-ation for Voice, Data, SMS, and IPX. With this suite, opera-tors can generate the SLA reports as stated by GSM-A. The package allows analysis over: SS7-Sigtran with ISUP for calls and traffic analysis over the OLO and international links, MAP and CAMEL for roaming and SMS and Calls activ-ity. Gp interfaces over Ethernet for data traffic between PLMNs. NGN/VoIP interfaces over Ethernet for SIP, RTP/RTCP, and H248 analysis of the traffic related to the NGN gateway between operators.

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