SoftHawk—Flexible and Scalable
All of the Ethernet-based interfaces can be analyzed with the PC’s NIC-adapter. When offline, SoftHawk can handle and analyze trace files recorded from any transmission technology.
Equipped with a separate iPro capture appliance, SoftHawk becomes a powerful LTE packet user-plane analyzer that is capable of capturing data from 1 or 10 Gbit Ethernet interfaces at 100% line rate and perform correlated control and user-plane analysis. SoftHawk may be scaled up to the BrixHawk Distributed Analyzer to cover wider LTE network troubleshooting and statistical analysis.
A unique use case for SoftHawk is that it enables real-time analysis without any probes. For example, in Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) environments, SoftHawk can make a connection directly to the eNodeB for complete LTE monitoring (S1/LTE air interfaces, X2 interfaces) or to packet-switched and circuit-switched core network elements (i.e., MSC server, SC-MGW, SGSN and GGSN) and used to troubleshoot live networks.
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