NetHawk M5 Testing Solutions

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NetHawk M5 Testing Solutions
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NetHawk M5 Highlights

• Provides access to the network data giving an
  overview of the network quality and enabling easy
  detailed study of possible problems in
  multi-technology and vendor environments.
• Unique scalability from ultra-portable
  stand-alone platforms up to high-performance
  multi-user lab systems.
• Multi-technology support from 2G over 3G to LTE
  in one box. Correlated call and session analysis
  over multiple technologies.
• High throughput real-time user-plane analysis for
  LTE
• Graphical reporting tool showing the high-level
  overview of network quality with easy drill-down
  to the detailed messages and parameters.
• New GUI design deploying the latest technology
  for ease of use, performance and
  advanced applications.

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Playground
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NetHawk M5 solutions

• For field
• NetHawk M5 with Laptop PC The Most Portable!
• TravelHawk by NetHawk Portability and capacity!
• For sites and labs
• NetHawk M5 with Desktop or Rack-mounted PC
• NetHawk iPro capturing high speed IP traffic
• Multi-user multi-core testing system NetHawk M5
  Sampo

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NetHawk M5 Sampo multi-user solution
NetHawk M5 Sampo Server - Rack-mounted server
PC - NetHawk Adapters / iPro - NetHawk M5 Sampo
Server SW - NetHawk M5 Sampo Client SWs -
Licensing
NetHawk M5 Sampo users - Windows Remote Desktop
connection over IP to NetHawk M5 Sampo Server -
Each user has his own independent NetHawk M5
Analyser session - No NetHawk SW or HW needed -
No licensing system needed - Usage from any OS
Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, .
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NetHawk M5 Sampo benefits

• Cost saving benefits
• Monitoring hardware effectively shared between
  the users same NetHawk Adapters can be used by
  several users simultaneously.
• No special requirements for remote user PCs - no
  need to upgrade them.
• User benefits
• Location independent usage. Remote Desktop used
  to connect to the Server.
• Each Client is a complete NetHawk M5 Analyser and
  can easily access and configure all physical
  interfaces.
• Administrator benefits
• Easy to maintain All HW, SW and cabling in one
  location.
• No extra load for LAN only Remote Desktop
  Connection required, traffic is not transferred
  over LAN.
• No NetHawk licensing nor NetHawk software
  installation needed in user PCs.

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Product components

• Scalable HW platform
• Laptop PC
• TravelHawk PC
• Desktop PC
• Rack-mounted PC
• NetHawk iPro
• NetHawk Adapters cables
• NetHawk M5 Analyser SW options

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NetHawk M5 Analyser product structure
Voice Quality Measurement
Speech Playback (VoIP CS codecs)
QoS (IP-KPIs)
Network Statistics
NetHawk M5 Engine

MS Vista upgrade
IPSec deciphering
IMA
RCA
Channelised STM-1/OC-3
Hardware Adapters
D6
D5
D4 G-Pro
D4 C-Lite
N6
N5
N3
Test UE
N2
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NetHawk Adapters for desktop/rack-mounted PCs
NetHawk D4 C-Lite Adapter (PCI/PCI-X) Two
10/100 Mbit and Gigabit Ethernet
NetHawk D4 G-Pro Adapter
(PCI-X) Two optical/electrical Gigabit Ethernet
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NetHawk Adapters for laptop PCs
NetHawk N6 Adapter (ExpressCard) Two
full-duplex STM-1/OC-3 (concatenated/channelised)
links / one STM-4/OC-12 link
NetHawk N2 Adapter (PCMCIA) One bi-directional
E1/T1/J1
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Monitoring capacity with TravelHawk / desktop /
rack-mounted PC

• Supported maximum line configurations
• TravelHawk
• Up to 4 x STM-1/OC-3 or 2 x STM-4/OC-12 links
• Up to 16 x E1/T1/J1 links
• Up to 2 x optical Gigabit Ethernet
• Up to 4 x copper Gigabit Ethernet
• Dell Precision T7500
• Up to 6 x STM-1/OC-3 or 3 x STM-4/OC-12 links
• Up to 16 x E1/T1/J1 links
• Up to 4 x copper Gigabit Ethernet
• Up to 2 x optical Gigabit Ethernet
• NH Rack PC 3.0
• Up to 6 x STM-1/OC-3 or 3 x STM-4/OC-12 links
• Up to 24 x E1/T1/J1 links
• Up to 6 x optical Gigabit Ethernet
• Up to 6 x copper Gigabit Ethernet
• NetHawk can deliver these PCs with
  M5 SW and
  Adapters installed ready!

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Monitoring capacity with laptop

• Supported maximum line configurations
• FujitsuSiemens Lifebook E8420
• Up to 2 x STM-1/OC-3 or 1 x STM-4/OC-12 links
• Up to 16 x E1/T1/J1 links
• Additionally built-in Ethernet adapter can be
  used for Ethernet based interfaces
• NetHawk can deliver this PC with M5 SW and
  Adapters installed ready!

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NetHawk iPro high capture appliance for IP

• Full capture of traffic from 2 x Gigabit Ethernet
  interfaces to 4 Terabyte storage
• 1U rack-mounted server
• Physical interface
• 2 x SFP ports or 2 x RJ-45 ports
• Packet capture
• 10 ns time stamp resolution, NTP time
  synchronisation, .PCAP-format
• BPF packet filtering
• Ethertype, MAC address, IP address, Port,
  Protocol, Packet stripping, Payload
• Configuration
• Web based GUI, User authentication, HTTPS, SSH
  terminal connection

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NetHawk iPro with M5

• 1. iPro as a remote adapter
• Connect iPro directly to M5 for realtime analysis
• iPro processes packets and delivers those to M5
  using LAN or internet
  connection
• Works as any M5 adapter - All M5 applications can
  be used
• Complete solution for signalling analysis
• 2. iPro as a capturing unit
• Full line rate capture for IP based networks
• Data stored and captured in iPro
• Capture conversion is done via iPro Web UI
• Possible to extract flows as own files for M5
• M5 can be used to open the iPro capture files
• Re-recording with the Recorder application first!
• 3. iPro for User plane analysis
• User Plane Analyser application real time QoS
  measurements for LTE, PS Core, VoIP
• Results are stored to MySQL database
• Drill Down from session level to detailed
  decoding
• For pure IP connections or tunneled IP connections

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NetHawk iPro with M5 User plane analysis
Patent-pending solution for user-plane analysis
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Air interface monitoring on site

• NetHawk Air Interface Test UE is used as an
  adapter for capturing air interface signaling and
  user data.
• NetHawk M5 can combine and synchronise in real
  time the air interface signaling with the
  signaling from other interfaces (Iub, Iu) in
  Protocol Monitor application.

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Air interface monitoring in the field

• Air interface test UE stores trace file to its
  internal memory with the help of NetHawk M5 RF
  Probe application
• Trace file can be analysed as such with NetHawk
  M5 and also merged with trace files from other
  network interfaces.

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Network monitoring with the NetHawk M5

• Analysis of the captured data with the help of
  intelligent applications in real-time/offline
• Detailed root-cause analysis with Protocol
  Monitor
• Troubleshooting with Call Session Analysis
• Speech playback and recording of CS calls
• Objective voice quality measurements
• Delay, throughput, jitter, packet count and
  packet loss measurements with QoS
• Over 100 pre-defined KPIs with Network Statistics
• Data-mining Storing of xDRs, KPIs and QoS
  counters to database and doing graphical analysis
  with Diagnostics reporting tool

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Protocol Monitor

• Release 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 or 99 as protocol analysis
  baseline
• Comprehensive support for proprietary decodings
• LTE, UTRAN, GERAN, Core and IMS decoding packages
  
• Wide support for IP application protocols
• LTE NAS, IPSec, Iub, Gb deciphering options
• Several simultaneous on-line analysis sessions
• Customised layer detail settings

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Protocol Monitor GUI
Application Manager
Message Sequence Chart view, also Single Line
Decoding view available
Detailed Decoding view
Connections selected for analysis
Layer detail settings
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Adjustable views in M5
-Docking panels allows user to define the
analyser views the most efficient way! E.g. in
PM, Detailed Decoding view can be moved from
bottom to side. -Floating applications let user
to move any application out of M5 working area,
even to different screen!
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Call Session Analysis

• Real-time tracing of CS calls, PS sessions,
  handovers with phase information
• LTE S1, EPC (control plane)
• UTRAN Iub, Iu-CS, Iu-PS
• Correlation Iub with Iu
• GERAN Abis, A, Gb, A, Ater, UMA Up
• Correlation Abis with A, A, Ater, and Gb with
  Gn, Gi
• Core MAP, ISUP, INAP, CAP, Mc/Nc/Nb, Gn, Gi, Gs
• Correlation MAP with Iu, Iub, or MAP with Abis,
  A, Mc with Nc, Nb
• IMS SIP with user plane, Diameter
• Setup time measurements between user-defined
  messages.

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Call Session Analysis GUI
Calls/sessions correlated over the monitored
interfaces
Available columns, e.g. over 200 LTE specific
columns
Detailed decoding with a mouse click
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Speech Playback for Iub, Iu-CS, Abis, A, Ater and
SIP interfaces

• Listening to speech of selected voice calls
  through PCs loudspeakers.
• Recording speech to .wav-format e.g. for PESQ
  analysis.
• Abis Scanner for easy configuration of Abis voice
  listening

• Supported speech codecs
• G.711 (A-law/µ-law)
• GSM HR, GSM FR, GSM EFR
• AMR-NB, AMR-WB
• G.723.1
• G.726
• G.729, G.729A, G.729B, G.729AB
• iLBC

PESQ Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality
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Voice Quality Measurement (NINA)

• No-reference approach for evaluation listening
  quality of speech files.
• NetHawk solution is based on SwissQuals NiNA
  algorithm
• In comparison to ITU-T P.563 where SwissQual is
  also owner partially NiNA has much less
  complexity.
• Restricted to narrow-band speech
• AMR-WB signal can be analysed but only the
  narrow-band spectral parts are taken into account
  allowing to predict transmission errors of the
  AMR-WB against error-free AMR-WB transmissions.
• Minimum period of the sample speech must be of
  five seconds. Speech period can be more than 20
  seconds but the only first twenty second is
  analysed
• NiNA makes use of a sophisticated pre-processing
  step that checks for silence and sufficient
  speech activity in the signals.

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Voice Quality Measurement (NINA) parameters
Column Description
Amplitude Clipping (DL/UL) Estimated amount of amplitude clipping in percentage.
DC Offset (DL/UL) Constant value of the input signal in percentage.
MOS-LQO (DL/UL) Overview about the sound quality in a single number result. 1 bad 5 excellent speech quality.
Noise Level (DL/UL) dB Noise Level displays an estimation of the background noise floor in decibel.
Pitch Frequency (DL/UL) Hz Pitch frequency of the input signal in hertz.
Problem Code (DL/UL) Possible cause for the speech degradation.
Signal Class (DL/UL) Analyzed signal classified into Clean speech / Noisy speech / No speech
Speech Activity (DL/UL) The higher this number is the higher is a speech density in an input signal.
Speech Availability Availability of speech in symbol.
Speech Level (DL/UL) dB R.M.S. level of all frames containing active speech in decibels.
Static SNR (DL/UL) Static SNR displays the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal.
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Network Statistics

• Based on the traced CS and PS transactions at
  Iub, Iu-CS, Iu-PS, Abis, A, Gb, MAP and ISUP
  interfaces
• Call setups, dropped calls, SMS, PDP context
  activations, routing area updates
• Stored to database
• Illustrated in graphics with Diagnostics
  reporting tool
• Count of occurrences
• Success/failure rates (Key Performance
  Indicators)
• Distribution of failure causes to LAC and Cell
  level
• Own KPIs with protocol counters

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Configuration GUI for Network StatisticsNetwork
Statistics Recorder
M5 default KPIs
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Diagnostics GUI for reporting Network Statistics
Timeline of analysis
Available KPIs
Success/failure ratios over a period of time in
graphics
Selected data sources
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Quality of Service measurements

• Measurements for user plane traffic at IP-based
  interfaces
• Delay, average delay and delay variance (jitter)
• Throughput
• Packet count and packet loss
• Possibility for several simultaneous
  measurements, e.g.
• Delay over RNC and SGSN for finding bottlenecks
• Throughput values for several UEs for comparison
• Delay and throughput correlation analysis
• Stored to database
• Analysis with Diagnostics
• Diagnostics can illustrate QoS KPIs in real-time
• Calculations with iPro QoS settings or with M5
  QoS Recorder

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Configuration GUI for QoSQoS Recorder
Available KPIs shown per connection
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Diagnostics GUI for reporting QoS
Automatic update of KPIs for real-time view.
Network nodes available for analysis
Illustration of QoS counters with colorful graphs
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Use case Troubleshooting with NetHawk M5

• Drill Down from statistics into XDRs and deeper
  into signaling analysis
• 1. Open XDR view for the selected call.
• 2. Drill-down to Protocol Monitor.

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NetHawk Care service

• Software maintenance, extended hardware warranty
  and support services
• Annual fee based on the system configuration
• New functionality with software updates
• No need to update the hardware, e.g. LTE
  monitoring capability only with a SW update
• SW can be downloaded directly from the web
  www.nethawk.fi

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Conclusions

• Combined LTE, UTRAN (with HSPA), GERAN, Core and
  IMS analysis tool for multi-vendor environments
  with support for latest specifications
• Full line rate capture for IP based networks
• High throughput real-time user plane analysis for
  LTE
• Advanced applications for refining signalling
  data to support decision-making
• Scalable HW platform and flexible product
  structure for close fit of different user groups
• New functionalities with software-only updates
  downloadable at web