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Distributed Analyzer—BrixHawk DA

Enables effective network service optimization and live network troubleshooting to assure the subscriber's quality of experience in a multitechnology environment.

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Live network troubleshooting
Network service optimization

Key Features

Single tool to help equipment manufacturers and service providers develop and operate multitechnology 4G/LTE, 3G and 2G mobile networks
Reduce customer churn with timely network testing; verify functionality of new network elements, interoperability between elements from different manufacturers and across multiple technologies/baselines
Measure user- and application-level QoS to visualize the true QoE from a customer’s perspective
Invest as required; seamless scalability from protocol analyzers to complete monitoring systems
The most detailed customer experience view, from signaling to user-plane data; support for over 400 protocols, and deep packet inspection (DPI) technology for detailed application-level analysis

Much More than Just a Protocol Analyzer

As mobile networks are moving to an all-IP model in order to meet the increasing bandwidth requirements and subscriber growth, it is more essential than ever to gain real-time, end-to-end insight into the performance of the network. This insight is necessary to enable effective management of the quality of service throughout the whole network lifecycle. With the introduction of packet networks, key performance metrics are more difficult to demonstrate. Instead of measuring only the transmission, network service providers need to focus more and more on subscriber- and application-based QoS measurements which enable customer experience management (CEM) and a high quality of experience (QoE).

Optimizing the Network with BrixHawk DA

BrixHawk DA enables network service optimization and troubleshooting with real-time KPIs and detailed user-plane analysis. Multiple probes remotely capture network traffic at line rate from the 1/10 G Ethernet interfaces. A KPI generator processes the network traffic and stores it to a database for analysis with the M5 Analyzer client software. BrixHawk DA correlates both control- and user-plane traffic across all interfaces to show a full, end-to-end view of both signaling and user-plane data. All this empowers the user to troubleshoot both functionality and quality issues in a single view. Any problems can be identified and located immediately.

Unique Scalability: Growing the System as Needed

BrixHawk DA can grow seamlessly as your network grows. In a network trial phase, a single testing instrument such as SoftHawk or PowerHawk may be used to verify network element functionality with real-time detailed analysis. After a successful trial the tool can be scaled up to BrixHawk DA, which provides unique features to ensure successful deployment and service optimization of a complete network cluster. The scale-up path provides maximum reusability of components—all software licenses and hardware components can still be utilized and none of the existing functionality is lost.

BrixHawk DA System Architecture

BrixHawk DA consists of probes—one or several according to your needs—a KPI server and database, and M5 Analyzer client software running on a laptop or a desktop PC. For a multi-user system, a client server is added, each supporting up to 10 simultaneous users.

The M5 Analyzer client software is equipped with the chosen technology package that includes all applications and other special functionalities for full analysis. The KPI server also comes with different KPI technology packages and can support up to four probes. The multi-interface probes can vary in their procedure-processing capacity—from 100 000 evolved packet core procedures per hour to millions—and optionally include the deep packet inspection (DPI) feature for more detailed application-level analysis.

Thanks to this flexibility, BrixHawk DA is a safe, future-proof investment that matches your specific needs at each stage of the network lifecycle. In addition, with a simple software upgrade and the addition of a BrixWorx correlation and analysis engine, BrixHawk DA can be expanded into the BrixHawk Service Assurance (SA) solution for 24/7 network-wide monitoring.

Software Applications

Diagnostics Suite: Statistics and user-plane analysis for network diagnosis of QoE; see signaling KPIs, full xDRs, subscriber and application-level QoS, IP and user-plane analysis with DPI
Call and Session Analyzer: Call and session tracing and analysis for troubleshooting; see how individual calls or sessions evolve over multiple interfaces with phase information
Protocol Monitor: Detailed decoding for root-cause analysis; see how the elements communicate with each other and the sequence of messages, as well as the full decoding details

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