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Ghepardo Applications

GPRS monitoring
applications

Introduction
The impressive growth in cellular mobile telephony and
in the number of Internet users represents an exciting
market potential for a service that combines both
innovations: cellular and wireless data services. Within
the next few years there will be extensive demand for
wireless data services. In particular, users will require
high-performance wireless Internet access.
Existing cellular data services do not fulfill the needs of
users and providers. From the user’s point of view, data
rates are too slow while connection setup takes too
long and is rather complicated. Moreover, the service is
too expensive for most users. From the technical point
of view, the drawback lies in the fact that current
wireless data services are based on circuit switched
radio transmission.
GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) is a new
bearer service for GSM that greatly improves and
simplifies wireless access to packet data networks like
the Internet/Intranets. It applies a packet radio principle
to transfer user data packets in an efficient way
between GSM mobile stations and external packet data
networks. Packets can be directly routed from GPRS
mobile stations to packet switched networks. IP (i.e.
the global Internet or private/corporate Intranets) and
X.25 networks are supported in the current version of
GPRS. Users of GPRS benefit from shorter access times
and higher data rates. In conventional GSM,
connection set up takes several seconds and
rates for data transmission are restricted to 9.6
Kbit/s. GPRS in practice offers session
establishment times below one second and
ISDN-like data rates. In addition, GPRS packet
transmission offers billing that is more user
friendly than that offered by circuit switched
services. In circuit switched services, billing is
based on the duration of the connection.
In contrast to this, with packet switched
services, billing can be based on the amount of
transmitted data.
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Applications
The following diagram shows the elements of a
GPRS network. The red entries show Ghepardo
used in monitoring applications. GPRS equipment
is indicated in light blue, while GSM equipment is
in light green. The bold lines represent interfaces
with both signaling and data traffic.These are new
GPRS data transmission interfaces. The non-bold
lines represent interfaces carrying only signaling.
The interfaces for GPRS and GSM network
cooperation are the lines between the blue and
green entities. The signaling interfaces are
extensions of standard GSM interfaces.
GPRS reference model
GPRS
BSS Base Station Subsystem SGSN Serving GPRS Support Node
EIR
GGSN
Equipment Identity Register
Gateway GPRS Support Node
SMS-GMSC Short Message Service Gateway MSC
SMS-IWMSC Short Message Service
HLR Home Location Register Interworking MSC
MSC
PLMN
Mobile-services Switching Center
Pubblic Land Mobile Network
SM-SC
VLR
Short Message Service Center
Visitor Location Register
The GPRS Monitor packages are designed to
fulfill different GPRS monitor requirements.
GPRS architecture provides new challenges to
Service Providers: not only a correct flow of
signaling traffic between the different Network
Elements but also the Quality of Service for the
user traffic like TCP/IP and X.25 must be
guaranteed.
Ghepardo allows complete troubleshooting of
both the signaling and the user data
protocols while simultaneously supporting
decoding of all the main GPRS interfaces
and complete monitoring of the TCP/IP
protocol.
Ghepardo Applications
The trace features like filtering and triggering
are designed to easily investigate the problems
involving Network Elements or User Traffic.
Extensive statistics reports are designed to obtain
real-time information about network performance
and load. The Call Details Record feature allows
centralized collecting of all data relative to user
traffic in order to generate statistics about
network usage.
Ghepardo has the functions to cover all the
different aspects of the GPRS network
management:
■ Performance analysis
■ Troubleshooting of both signaling and data
(TCP/IP) protocols
■ Network Surveillance to react immediately
upon anomaly detection
■ Network planning to keep Network Element
load under control
■ Service reporting to generate
off-line statistics on network usage
Features
• Real-time decoding of all the protocol
layers in compact and expanded formats
• Upper layer PDUs reassembly
• Trace filtering
• User triggers
• Protocol and network statistics
• Recording and playback
• Call Tracing over the Gb interface, based
upon IP address (PDP Context
Call Tracing), IMSI or P-TMSI
• Call Details Records (CDRs) over the
Gb interface, locally generated and stored
• CDR-to-frames correlation over the
Gb interface
• CDRs forwarding to Centralized Server
for post-analysis service reporting
• Integrated TCP/IP monitor package
over the Gb interface
• Decoding of the IP/UDP/TCP layers
• Message filtering upon ports
and/or destination/source IP addresses
• IP statistics
• ICMP counters
• TCP connections
• Services repartition
• Total amount and percentage of User
Traffic listed by detected IP addresses
• User Traffic divided per Service, listed
by detected IP addresses
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Protocols Software Packages

■ Gb Interface Ordering Information
• FRAME RELAY (GSM 08.14)
•GP/UPS/GPRS-Gb:
• NETWORK SERVICE (GSM 08.16)
Monitor package for the Gb interface
• BSSGP (GSM 08.18)
•GP/UPS/GPRS-Gs:
• LLC (GSM 04.64)
Monitor package for the Gs interface
• SNDCP (GSM 04.65)
•GP/UPS/GPRS-MAP:
• GMM/SM (GSM 04.08)
Monitor package for the Gr, Gf and Gc interfaces
• IP
•GP/UPS/FR-MON and GP/UPS/TCP-MON:
• TCP
Frame Relay + TCP/IP Monitor package (Gi interface)
• UDP
•GP/UPS/PPP-MON and GP/UPS/TCP-MON:
■ Gs Interface
PPP + TCP/IP Monitor package (Gi interface)
• MTP
•GP/UPS/X25-MON:
• SCCP
X.25 Monitor package (Gi interface)
• BSSAP+ (GSM 03.60 and GSM 09.18)
■ Gr, Gf and Gc Interfaces
• MTP
• SCCP
• TCAP
• MAP
■ Gi Interface
• TCP/IP over Frame Relay on WAN

GPRS
interfaces
• TCP/IP over PPP on WAN interfaces
• X.25 on WAN interfaces
• TCP/IP over 10/100/1000 Mbit
LAN Interface

Specifications
■ Supported platforms:
Ghepardo S, R Small, R Large and HS.
■ Hardware options:
STB required only in case of
multi-timeslots analysis or high speed
(> 256 Kbit/sec) unchannelized analysis
on E1/T1.
■ Interfaces:
• Up to 16 framed E1/T1 ports with
signaling timeslots up to 256 Kbit/sec,
Nx64 or Mx64.
• Up to 8 framed E1/T1 ports with up to 31
signaling channels into each port, at
64/56 Kbit/sec, Nx64 or Mx64; max 64
signaling channels per system
(STB option required).
• Up to 8 unframed E1 ports at speed up
to 2 Mbit/sec (STB option required).
• Up to 16 V24/V35/RS530/RS449 ports
up to 256 Kbit/sec.
■ Physical ports granularity:
2 additional trunks per board.
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Ghepardo Applications

Ghepardo Concept
The Ghepardo protocol analyzer/server is everything you need
a protocol analyzer to be and more. In addition to being the most
versatile protocol analyzer available, it is also a powerful server,
allowing World Wide Web access and global distributed probe
analysis from anywhere.
Imagine being able to do a global network analysis from your
hotel room, or network troubleshooting from your home PC, in
complete security. With the Ghepardo system, you can. The
Ghepardo system offers you many benefits/features:

■ Web-based. Ghepardo servers are accessible from any

Web browser on any platform from anywhere in the world.
■ Multi-user. Up to 32 users can independently access and
monitor any Ghepardo analyzer/server at any time.
■ Multi-protocol.The Ghepardo system supports the
monitoring of all the main GPRS interfaces and of the TCP/IP
protocol transported over the Gb interface.
■ Multi-interface.T1, E1 and V.xx interfaces are supported, up
to 16 interfaces with two timeslots each, or up to 8 interfaces
with up to 31 timeslots per physical trunk.
■ Call Detail Record. Ghepardo Server can generate Call
Detail Records (and hundreds of other reports) and forward
them to a central database. All reports are Web-accessible.

Such a highly flexible configuration allows different physical

interfaces to be used simultaneously. The modular design and
expandability guarantee the customer’s investment for future
needs.

The revolutionary and unique client-server approach adopted

for the User Interface allows multiple users to access
simultaneously a Ghepardo while monitoring the traffic, through
any standard TCP/IP network. No need of special applications on
the client side: only a standard Internet Browser is required.

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