Microtel Innovation

Company and Product presentation

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 Microtel Innovation a Cinetix Group Company

Microtel Innovation (previously Telena since 1982)

joined Cinetix Group in 2013

 Privately held company with headquarter in Padova

 Commercial and technical offices in Roma, Trento, Legnano, Vercelli
 Founded in 2003 by a team of highly skilled engineers
 Solution Provider in the Telco market
 Close cooperation with several Italian Universities
 Strongly focused in technology research and applications

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 Microtel Innovation Mission

Enabling Service Providers

to adapt their Network Visibility Layer

to the next technology challenge

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 Network Visibility
Network Visibility

Network visibility is:

• how data is collected, aggregated, distributed and served to the monitoring and
analytics tools
• Create a stable foundation for your security infrastructure: remove blind spots and
improve security tool performances

TDM
Network Mobile Network
Data
Network

Data Access & Capture

Monitoring and security tools Security

Performance Troubleshooting
Monitoring

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 We help Companies like these

SERVICE
PROVIDER

PROBE
VENDOR

TECHNOLOGY
PARTNER

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 Microtel Innovation portfolio

OPTICAL , ELECTRICAL & NETWORK PACKET GTP BALANCER & TDM to IP SIGTRAN
VIRTUAL TAP BROKER LOAD ADAPTER

Optical Link 16 x 1G/10G interfaces Load Balancer E1 interfaces (Signaling only)

Copper Link 32 x 1G/10G interfaces Load Adapter STM-1 interfaces (Signaling only)

10G/40G/100G interfaces A-XFE STREAMLINER STM-1 interfaces (Voice&Signaling)

Microtel
M-vTAP

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 Aster Packet Broker:
1G/10G/40G/100G
Total Network Visibility

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 Aster Packet Brokers
The whole family
GTP subscriber based
intelligent
Network Complexity and Data Applications

Advanced Packet
Manipulation (APM)
A-630C
Capabilities
32X100G
32X40G
128X10G
A_XFE Streamliner

20X100G
20X40G
A-620 80X10G
Volume

A-618 32X1/10G

16X1/10G Aster
Network Packet Brokers

Network Infrastructure 1Gb  10Gb  40Gb  100Gb

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 Advanced Packet Manipulation features:
 Packet deduplication
 Header Stripping (VLAN, MPLS, VXLAN, GRE,
VnTAG)
 Conditional slicing
 Source Port Labelling

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 Aster XGB and Streamliner
GTP Stateful applications
Session Based GTP Balancer and Load Adapter,
best performances at the most competitive price

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 Business Drivers: Dramatic growth of data traffic

Dramatic growth of data traffic

 “Global mobile data traffic will increase Microtel Innovation XGB

sevenfold between 2016 and 2021” GTP Load Balancer A-718/A-720
GTP Load Adapter A-818/A-820
from Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile
Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2016–2021 White
Paper

Microtel Innovation A-XFE Streamliner

A-XFE GTP Top Performing Load Balancer
A-XFE GTP Advanced Load Adapter

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 XGB and Streamliner GTP Applications:
Why

 In Core Network, GTP traffic can’t be divided in a simple way, as each probe has to receive the whole
sessions associated to a single subscriber
 Monitoring probe capability is usually from 10G to 30G: when data traffic exceeds that, the operator has
usually 2 choices:

1 Save money, keep the actual probe and add 2 Add another probe: the XGB Load Balancer
a XGB Load Adapter to Offload the not is needed to balance the GTP traffic between
needed traffic several probes

Aster XGB Aster XGB

GTP GTP
Adapter Balancer

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XGB and Streamliner GTP Load Adapter
Offloading methods

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 A-XFE Streamliner: GTP Advanced Load Adapter

 Additional filtering criteria are added:

• MSISDN (standard international telephone • TAI (Tracking Area Id)

number )
• RAT (Radio Access Technology) Type
• ULI (User Location Information)
• CGI (Cell Global Id)
• SAI (Service Area Id)
• RAI (Routing Area Id)
• ECGI (E-UTRAN Cell Id)
• LAI (Location Area Identity)
• Serving Network
• IMEI (International Mobile Equipment
Identity)
• QCI (Bearer QoS Label)

AsterXFE
Advanced
Load
Adapter

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 Ethernizer
to monitor TDM links with IP probes,
to through away the old costly TDM probes

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 TDM to IP solutions: Ethernizer

Yesterday TODAY

As many mobile and fixed

FR
networks, driven by a growing FR

demand for Internet services are ATM ISDN ATM ISDN

gradually migrating to
IP based architecture, Microtel E1/T1 STM-1
IP Network
E1/T1 STM-1
IP Network
Ethernizer enables operators to
manage a mixed infrastructure,
monitoring both IP and Groomers &
Concentrators Packet Broker ETHERNIZER Packet Broker
Legacy links using the same IP
Probe
Legacy Probe
IP Probe IP Probe

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 TDM to IP solutions: E series Ethernizer
Legacy protocol conversions:
E-313SA Upon these protocols,
several network interfaces
Legacy Protocol Protocol Conversion
can be converted. Examples
SS7 Signalling (over HDLC) SIGTRAN (M2UA)
are:
• Interface A, B, C, D, E, F, H,
E-613B SS7 Signalling (over ATM) SIGTRAN (M2UA) IN, Gb, Gc, Gd, Ge for mobile
networks
Frame Relay UDP/IP • Interfaces around the STP
nodes, in fixed networks
• IMS MGW/SGW
interworking interfaces
towards PSTN networks

Model Input Interface Output Interface Protocol Conversion

E-313SA up to 32 E1/T1 2x1G Ethernet SS7 (HDLC and/or ATM) to SIGTRAN

E-613SA up to 128 E1/T1 2x1G+2x10G Ethernet SS7 (HDLC and/or ATM) to SIGTRAN
E-313B up to 4 STM-1 2x1G Ethernet SS7 (HDLC) to SIGTRAN
E-613B up to 16 STM-1 2x1G+2x10G Ethernet SS7 (HDLC) to SIGTRAN

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 Network Visibility
Copper and Optical TAPs

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 Full Access TAPs solutions: T-200C
10/100/1000 Mbps Dual link Copper TAP Full Access Tapping for a single link
Node A

Rx
Output
1GbE
Tx Rx Monitoring
Rx
Ports
1GbE Tx
Tx

Node B
PluriTAP T-200C
 Power Source
• Primary: PoE, AC, DC
 Density
• Secondary: hot swap Backup Battery Power in each TAP
Up to 4 dual TAP modules in 1U chassis or
module
Single Unit standalone version
 Power Supply
 Output ports • Standalone/1RU : from 2 external wall plug-in adaptors
4 output ports for each dual TAP module, • 1RU: from external redundant Power Supply Tray (1U)
on front panel, with RJ45 connectors
 Alarms
 Modular compact solution • SNMP/TRAP alarms
only 4RU for 32 TAP links hosted • Led indicators for Link Up/Link Down/Activity, Power Status
(or 5RU with external Power Supply Tray) and Backup Battery Power level

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 Optical TAPs solutions: T-20

PluriTAP T-20 1/10/40/100 Gbps

 Non-intrusive monitoring
 No-power and no points of failure

PluriTAP T-20
High density

 up to 24 single link TAP (LC) singlemode / multimode

Complete range  up to 12 single link TAP (MTP/MTO) multimode

 mixed configuration singlemode / multimode
 100 Mbps, 1/10/40/100 Gbps speed
 50/50, 60/40, 70/30, 80/20, 90/10 split ratios Both for Ethernet and SDH-SONET links

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Visibility in Virtual environments:
Microtel Innovation path to Virtualization

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 Microtel Innovation M-vTAP

 Virtualized Network Tapping

• VNF / VM Tapping
• East – West (E-W) Traffic (with in compute) Components
• North – South (N-S) Traffic (across computes)
 Advanced traffic filtering
• based on MAC, ARP, MPLS, IP, IPv6, TCP, UDP, ICMP
 Packet slicing Centralized M-vTAP
 Support tunneling encapsulation for traffic forwarding Controller
• VxLAN, GRE, and VLAN
 VM migration & vMotion support (Dec ‘18)
• Follow tapping after VM migration in Openstack environments
• Follow tapping after vMotion in VMware environment Distributed M-vTAP Agents
 Interworks with existing physical network monitoring
 Microtel Innovation M-vTAP: Platforms

 Orchestrator Supported:
• Openstack Ocata and later versions
• Red Hat Openstack Platform version 10 (Dec ‘18)
• vSphere 6.5 and 6.7

 Hypervisor Supported:
• OpenStack KVM
• Red Hat KVM (Dec ‘18)
• VMware ESXi
M-vTAP – VMware deployment scenario

vCenter Server

Microtel vTAP deployment in VMware ESXi environment using vSphere

M-vTAP – OpenStack deployment scenario

Microtel vTAP deployment in KVM environment using OpenStack

Thank You

www.microtelinnovation.com
info@microtelinnovation.com

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