CORE IMS and EPC

Passive Monitoring Solution

CORE Passive Monitoring Solution

Services
In-depth end-to-end Network, service &
troubleshooting customer monitoring

True End-to-End Scalable

multivendor, Core to RAN, Keep UP
NFV compliant 5G ready
multitech network to monitoring
support subscriber under control

The trusted solution for Service Assurance

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Intelligent capture

Massive & real time

+ Use cases
Flexible & scalable monitoring
End-to-end network monitoring
+ NFV compliant
Measure service quality
Assure NFV infrastructure

+ Advanced QoE metrics

Customer experience analysis

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Massive & real-time traffic capture & processing
Generate high value xDRs including network, Features
service & subscriber info Plug & Play capture
– Auto discovery of interfaces
xD R ata ecords
Enrichment
x = procedure, macro-procedure, session, bearer
– IMSI, IMEI, MSISDN, charging type, . .
.
– DPI traffic classification: Hostname,
protocol, application, . . .
Filtering
– Radio: Geolocation, indoor/outdoor, . . .
Deciphering
Context tracking
Context tracking
– EPS bearer / PDP context
Geolocation
Cross Deciphering
Enrichment Enrichment DPI
enrichment – S1-MME NAS deciphering using
xDR generation xDR generation ciphering keys retrieved from S3, S6a,
S10, GnMobility
Real-time aquisition Real-time aquisition

CP / radio call trace UP

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Provide a holistic view of the customer. . .
What service or applications?
Experience? CENTER OF INTEREST
PERCEPTION OF
QUALITY - QoE -

Which device?
PROFILE

How?
NETWORK

Date, duration?
Location WHEN
WHERE?
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. . . through a set of rich data

KPIs
KPI

Meta CDR

Multi-interface
XDR correlation

CDR eSDR appDR FlexBDR Radio CDR Geo NBI

DATA radio
CP UP
SOURCE call traces

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EPC—Interfaces monitored
Domain Interface
S1AP/NAS: S1-C
Service & network GTPv1: GnCore
performance GTPv2: S2a, S2b (WLAN) S5-C, S11, S10, S4-C
Diameter: S6b, SWx, SWm (WLAN) S6a, S6d
User Plane analysis GTPv1: Gn-U, Gp-U, S1-U, S4-U, S12, S5-U, S8-U
GTPv1: GnMobility
Inter-system GTPv2: S3, Sv
SGsAP: SGs
Policy Management Diameter: Gx, Rx, Sy
Radius
Charging
Diameter: Gy, Gz
GTPv1: Gp-C
Roaming GTPv2: S8-C
Diameter: S6a

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Core CS/IMS—Interfaces and protocols
Domain Protocol
CS Service & network
MAP, SMS
performance
CS service analysis CAP, INAP
CS inter-system ISUP, BICC
MM session analysis SIP, SIP-T/SIP-I: all interfaces Gm, Mw, ISC, Ma, Mw, Mm, Mg, Mi, Mj, Mk, Mx, Mr…
DIAMETER:
MM authentication,
AAA : Cx, Dx, Sh, Dh, Zh
authorization, accounting,
Charging: Rf, Ro
charging, policy
Policy: Rx
IP resolution DNS, DNS ENUM
MGW control H.248 (Megaco)
Media RTP/ RTCP

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Flexible and scalable monitoring
Keep your monitoring budget under control, even with data traffic booming

Targeting Load balancing Sampling

Subscriber IMSI towards several probes Define maximum output rate
Handset types TAC towards probes
Service bundle APN all frames (UP and related CP)
Location Cell related to one subscriber are Algorithm is based on IMSIs
PLMN always routed to the same guarantying all the traffic
Out Roamers
probe related to a specific subscriber
Network node @IP is followed up over time

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Manage customer QoE despite NFV complexity

100% virtualized service assurance

Manage increasing
NETWORK complexity Analytics
GOES VIRTUAL Troubleshooting

Adapt to virtualized
environment Virtual agent (active, passive)
as VNF

Discover a dynamic Real-time topology

ecosystem in real time discovery and modeling

Orchestrated virtual agent lifecycle

Automate scale
on-demand Instantiation on-demand
Always on thanks to self-healing

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A unique platform for service assurance
into a NFV environment
Monitoring, Analytics
& Troubleshooting

MANO
OSS/BSS
Orchestrator

VNFs
Passive Virtual Active Virtual VNF
VNF 1 VNF 2
Agents Agents manager

NFVI

Virtualization
VIM
manager
Hardware resources

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End-to-end and geolocated
troubleshooting
Massive troubleshooting
100% subscriber activity Use cases
+ End-to-end
Customer complaint resolution
End-to-end call flow from core to RAN Black spot investigation
+ Geolocated investigation
Troubleshoot underperforming
network elements

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Massive troubleshooting
Deep investigation at call/session/procedure level Features
xDR sorting and filtering
– Retrieve activity of a customer or
cell or area
– 100% of customer activity

Distribution and charting

– Analyze call distribution with
automatic charting

Deep investigation
– Visualize call flow details
– Detailed protocol decoding
– Termination causes

Data export
– Share your thoughts with other
teams, vendors or 3rd parties

Drill-down
– Native drill-down from the other
Nova applications

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 Detailed Cell, CDR and Call Flow Analysis
▪ Drill through analysis from massive maps to CDRs and L3Analysis

Individual Cell Coverage

Massive Call/KPI Analysis

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 CDR and L3 Troubleshooting
Massive CDR Analytics and Drill down to Location and L3 Analysis
▪ Retrieve and analyze CDRs
▪ Geolocate calls & mobility (point to point)
▪ Decode frames to analyze L3 messaging

Cluster Massive Call/KPI Analysis Process Troubleshooting and L3 Analysis

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 VoLTE Troubleshooting
Investigate Voice status and inter-system redirections
▪ Analyze 3GPP and Vendor release causes and radio metrics
▪ Analyze CSFB and SRVCC and end network technology and carrier

▪ Analysis
Analysisof
ofall
failures
voice and
CSFB/SRVCC
connections redirections
▪ Voice Call Distribution
CSFB/SRVC to UTRAN by or
GERAN
Status, Cause
Associated
and with end
Carrier
Redirection Type (CSFB,
SRVCC)
▪ Distribution of SINR indicates
 Specific
large proportion
calls geolocated
caused byon
maplevels
low

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 VoLTE Troubleshooting
Drill down to call message flow for detailed investigation
▪ Correlated events with intuitive call diagrams and radio measurements

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 E2E Troubleshooting
E2E call flow from RAN though to EPC, IMS and Inter-RAT
▪ Retrieve and analyze xDRs
▪ Display multi-interface call flows E2E
▪ Decode frames

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Multi-dimensional business intelligence

Business Intelligence for

Use cases
performance monitoring
+ Multidimensional data correlation
Network performance

Service Quality

+ Advanced algorithms
Customer Experience

Usage analysis

Advanced CEM

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BI for performance monitoring
Business oriented libraries Features
Dashboards
– Overview, detailed
– KPI status and trending

Top worst lists

– NEs, services, clusters…

KPI mapping
– Visualize underperforming
elements on a map

Reporting & alerting

– Export: XLS, PDF
– KPI below threshold
– Automatic email generation

Automatic drill down

– From network/service overview
to detailed level
– From KPI to call level

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Native drill down to root cause
Identify low performances and associated root causes Benefits
as fast as possible Increase operational
Built-in workflow efficiency
Alert – low performance Root cause identified
Focus your efforts on
low performing
Overview Detailed Cause distribution elements/ areas/
subscribers

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 Network performance

Filters: Troubleshoot:
Core IMS CORE EPC KPI, RAT, Interface Link to Nova Explorer

Procedure efficiency Node performance

Color code indicating per direction of the flow
KPIs’ performance (either source or destination).

Trend overtime
for the selected filters

Cause category and cause detail

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Multidimensional data correlation
Correlate multiple dimensions into the same dashboard Dimensions
FILTERS Time
– Hour, day, week, month

Cluster
– Region, city, road

Frequency
Vendor
Network element
Traffic type
Procedure
Handset
QCI
Static/mobile
Multiple filtering criteria
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 Manage network and service performance
within a virtual and physical environment
APPLICATIONS Third party systems
and applications
Supervision & management

PROCESSING

KPI generation geolocation Filtering

Published APIs
Enrichment correlation Context tracking

Real Time
xDR generation Deciphering
acquisition NFV orchestration
OSS/BSS

DATA ACQUISITION

OSS radio Network/service

CP UP
call traces inventories

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