IPXPlorer®

January 2009

Product Family Brochure

Analysis for Next Generation Networks, Services, and Applications

Product Family Overview

Next Generation Networks and Applications Demand Next Generation Analysis

IPXPlorer® is the first of a new generation of communication test and measurement solu-tions for Legacy and Next Generation Networks, Services and Applications.

Increase revenue

To manage the tremendous growth in traffic and ser-vices, Enterprises and Carriers continue to invest in next generation network technologies that promise greater capacity and increased revenues through the delivery or the use of new data services.

The need to realize a return on investment forces many teams with diverse skills to overcome levels of complex-ity while still meeting tight deadlines.

Improve TIme To markeT

IPXPlorer® has the simultaneous and transparent sup-port of Data Communication and Telecoms applica-tions including legacy IP traffic, Web 2.0, VoIP-telepho-ny and multimedia, IMS, IuPS-Gn-Gi, NGN, IPTV, VoD and circuit switch applications like Signalling System N.7 and SigTran.

Only one test equipment for circuit and packet switched, and transport networks, one complete unit for the past and for the future- Facilitates server migration to Next Generation Networks. Collecting and analyzing data is extremely efficient in legacy and next generation high speed networks.

Since any IPXPlorer® product is a compact unit with no need of any external tool, it guarantees outstanding network coverage data and quality and capacity data in an exceptionally quick time frame.

Increase producTIvITy

This new generation of test and measurement equip-ment has been designed to be highly user-friendly and immediate so that a user without test-equipment ex-pertise can perform daily tasks. IT and Telecoms engi-neers are challenged by tight time lines and by a mas-sive technological revolution: they need to work with an easy and powerful tool able to address today’s new challenges.

Network engineering and IT groups are constantly chal-lenged to keep up with an increasing number of tech-nologies while supporting the growth requirements of the existing services.

The IPXPlorer® FamIly

IPXPlorer® products family has three main models: � IPXPlorer® One: Portable and Battery Operated Unit. In less than 2.5 Kg (5.5.lbs), the User has one the small-est and powerful service and network analyzer available today. Battery operated with over 3 hours autonomy, it has a colour TFT and touch screen, and supports multi-ple GE LAN, SDH, and PCM interfaces. With 60 Watts/hour, over six times less than competitive products with similar performances, IPXPlorer® One has set a new record in the market for energy and environment saving.

� IPXPlorer® Mod: Compact Portable and Rack mount probe. Directly derivated from the portable unit IPXPlorer® Mod with a rugged metal case operates in small to medium size data or switch centres for table top or rack mount operations. Like the portable unit, the Mod hosts multiple LAN, SDH and PCM interfaces and it has a built-in Web-based GUI.

� IPXPlorer® Flex: Modular and Flexible Configurable Rack mount probe with built-in Storage. With over five Gigabit/sec analysis capacity in real-time, many terabytes storage, and several Giga Ethernet, SDH/SONET, and PCM ports, IPXPlorer® Flex operates in medium-large size data and telecoms centres where power, scalability, and multi-ple clients access are necessary to monitor busy networks.

All the three models share the same MT-OS, the MuTech Operating System, and are built around the common MuTech Data-Service Capture and Qualification Hard-ware design.

The combination of these elements put the IPXPlorer® products family on top of their class for power, flexibil-ity, performance, energy consumption, and applica-tions. The innovation of IPXPlorer® is also in the com-petitive price with a unique price-performance ratio in the market today.

IPXPlorer® One - Portable Unit

Innovation with no Compromise

decrease operaTIonal cosT

IPXPlorer® is available in compact and light form to al-low fast and easy monitoring transportation and instal-lation issues and with massive resources saving. Rack mounts units are also available.

MuTech provides you an innovative and scalable solu-tion compliant with worldwide standards related to the legacy and latest generation of protocols. The modular architecture of the IPXPlorer® products guarantees ex-tremely high reliability.

our cusTomers

MuTech offers solutions to support:

y Network Operations Centres in monitoring traffic distribution and resources usage;

y Installers and Maintenance Engineers in install-ing, monitoring and troubleshooting networks over multiple technologies and vendors;

y Telecoms and IT Vendors in verifying the inter op-erability between different equipment by evalu-ating the information flow through not homoge-neous technologies.

y Mobile and wireline operators in merging cir-

cuit and packet switching technologies, which includes services deployment, Service Level Agreements verification and billing;

y Enterprise organizations in ensuring security, im-proving performances and deploying services over all their infrastructures;

y Internet Services Providers in guaranteeing qual-ity of service for data and new multimedia serv-ices;

y Security Teams in recording and alarming possi-ble infringements to their network security sys-tem.

measuremenT InTerFaces and sTorage

IPXPlorer® products support multiple measurement interfaces for Local and Wide area networks monitor-ing. This includes LAN Fast and Giga Ethernet, SDH/STM1 and OC3/SONET, and PCM E1/T1/J1. Number and combination of simultaneous interfaces depends by model.

IPXPlorer® products have built-in hard disks for the storage of configuration, data, result, packets-frame, reports, and xDR recording. Storage size from 100 GB to 16 TB depends by model.

External eSata disks or Storage Area Network solution can be added to extend the data storage capacity.

PerFormances

IPXPlorer® combines hardware and software to set new performances records in the industry, such as:

� Wire speed traffic capture and filtering. � from 600,000 to 1,5 Millions packets per second real-time analysis. Analysis performance figures vary depending on model.

� For SS#7 LSL and HSL, 1 Erlang per signalling link is sup-ported.

� Frame and packet off-load and filtering technology M-CEF™ (patent pending) allows maximum network resources without slowdowns or outages. The MuTech Cognition Engine Filters M-CEF™ combine high speed dedicated flows tagging system, signalling and payload pattern comparison hardware logic, software algorithms for protocol events and programmable recognition of specific data stream sequences.

� Over 300 Mbps data recording on disk for IPXPlorer® One and Mod models, and over 2Gbps for IPXPlorer® Flex.

� 10GE ready

IPXPlorer® Mod - Table Top or rack Module Unit

IPXPlorer® provides analysis of services like VoD, IPTV, VoIP and simply TCP/IP data ap-plications such as pop3, smtp, http, ftp, telnet, sql, and over 300 others

New Tools and Concepts for Fast Problem Solving

muTech’s InnovaTIons

The products developed by MuTech are a combination of new technologies in hardware and software with the purpose to cut costs and improve productivity and quality in IT and Telecoms industries.

Innovation is the most important word for MuTech, and IPXPlorer® is an example of multiple new ideas com-bined in the same product for the next decade net-works traffic and services. ASDR™ here presented is an example of this innovation.

asdr™: The comprehensIve deTaIls record

Application Service Details Record-ASDR™ is an ag-gregation of the procedures running at the different protocols layers to allow an application or service to be deployed from a supplier to a consumer.

ASDR™ concept is similar to the Call Details Record -CDR concepts for a call based service in Telephony or the IPDR in the data environment, with the difference that ASDR™ works for every type of services: voice, data –only, or video based. In some ways ASDR™ is the evo-lution of the CDR and IPDR concepts, merging and ex-tending them into one new concept.

MuTech has extended the Details Record fields by add-ing useful information for diagnostic, troubleshooting, network planning, QoS assessment, services, applica-tion and content delivery.

IPXPlorer® generates an Application Service Details Record-ASDR™--for each end-to-end communication at application level for the most significant services.

ASDR™ is aggregation of all the important information related to a session, or a call, or a service or an applica-tion running between two hosts or users. ASDR™ links all the xDR generated from 2 through layer 6 of ISO-OSI architecture. An ASDR™ also includes values for traffic exchanged, bandwidth utilization, connection dura-tion, quality, and possible communication problems.

IPXPlorer® products also provides standard IP, Calls, and Transaction Details Records (IPDR, CDR, and TDR) without aggregation into ASDR™, for backward export compatibility to existing systems.

An example of ASDR™ is represented by a complete VoIP session that generates an ASDR™ combining to-gether the IPDR for TCP connection between the hosts, the IPDR of SIP Agent registration to proxy, the CDR of the SIP call, and the IPDR generated by the RTP connec-tion carrying the voice packets.

ProTocols & servIces

Simultaneous analysis of different protocols over mul-tiple interfaces and technologies, such as:

� IP-Datacomm: PPPoE, VLAN, UDP, TCP, RTP/RTCP, SCTP, RSVP, Multicast, and over 300 IP-based services including DNS, Radius, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, IM.

� Voice over IP: SIP and H.323-H.225-H.245 based with RTP and RTCP support and Quality of Service real-time scoring system (see below).

� IPTV, Video on Demand, and Video Communication based on Unicast such as RTSP and Multicast with Transport Streams over RTP, UDP. Different coding systems like MPEG2, MPEG4, H264, H263, MP3, WM9 are supported. Quality of Service real-time scoring system (see next).

� Audio and Video not intrusive quality of service scoring system based on ITU G.107 E-Model. IPXPlorer® products

run a G107 algorithm running on each RTP packet car-rying audio-voice information. Medium Opinion Score is made per connection in real time and results are stored together with ASDR™.

� MDI measurement on video streams. The RFC4445 –MDI is totally supported, and IPXPlorer® products provide alarms and results on Delay Factor (DF) and Media Loss Rate (MLR) that are stored together with ASDR™.

� Signalling Core Network on circuit and packet switching technologies includes SS#7 TUP, ISUP, SCCP, TCAP, MAP (multiple releases), CAMEL, INAP (CS1+CS2), SigTran: SCTP, M2PA, M2UA, M3UA.

� IMS: Diameter, SIP-3GPP for video and audio calls, SIP-I. � Next Generation Network with SIP, RTP/RTCP, Megaco-H.248, MGCP, NCS, SIP-T, ISUP, SIgTran, and BICC.

� UMTS-3GPP-GPRS (Packet Switching Plane): IuPS, Gi, Gn, and Gp.

IPXPlorer® Flex - Flexible Rack Unit- version 1u with 4 TB storage IPXPlorer® Flex - Flexible Rack Unit- version 3u with 16 TB storage

Improve Productivity in Critical Success Areas

Plus ASDR™ contains the information about voice qual-ity score like MOS, the network and the application response time typical of IP sessions, and the IP impair-ments that may cause degradation of the quality.

If the User or Network Manager needs to see the VoIP traffic in terms of quantity and quality, it is sufficient to recall the VoIP ASDR™ and ask to MT-OS of IPXPlorer® to combine the data as call completion analysis, voice quality, traffic trend, and network response time to get a complete picture of the service delivery.

The alternative is combine manually, creating complex queries or accessing multiple sources data from xDR, with statistics from counters and QoS score from qual-ity analyzer, and finally link and correlate all together.

With IPXPlorer® all this job is not necessary and every-thing is made transparently to the User and instantly.

analysIs and resulTs

Result type varies from network performance, usage, and host-to-host, or user-to-user traffic, statistical analysis, dashboard with speed and performance indi-cators for the most active hosts, users, destinations, or top called-calling end points.

� Traffic Breakdown for the most significant network and service parameters splits by host-device, application, site, and programmable groups.

� Trend Analysis: This group is similar to Traffic but based on historical data that allow the operator to have a view of how events, parameters, and traffic figures are changing through a determined period.

� IPDR generation for the most significant services trans-ported by the data stream. IPDR are components of ASDR™ (see the dedicated section).

� Quality of Service scoring for Datacom, Voice, and Video over packet based on latency, response time and packets loss measurements, ITU G.107-EModel, and MDI RFC4445.

� Over 3000 Key Performance Indicators -KPIs and pro-grammable aggregation are generated based on IPDR and ASDR™ for the alarming system.

� Alarms: IPXPlorer® generates and dispatches alarms based on programmable conditions to the operator, a

centralized syslog server, or to the µQXManager Centrex Viewer Server.

� Troubleshooting features such as protocol decodes and data stream correlation with graphical representation of end-to-end data flows.

� Integration of data coming from NetFlow v5, v9, and IPFix providers.

� Built-in reporting engine for graphical and tabular reports of the key statistical and analysis results. Reports are ex-portable in various standard formats such as pdf, cvs, and xml.

� Multimedia streams analysis of live as well as playback of captured data for all the most popular codecs.

� Data import and export to PCAP and ENC format files. � Data recording on hard disk drives. Packets and Frames are stored in PCAP 2.4 format.

� Data and Results Transfer between IPXPlorer® and exter-nal centralized system or server are handled by FTP or XML-RPC protocols over a dedicated Ethernet port.

� All the models of IPXPlorer® can be integrated into the MIP-DMA “MuTech IP-Distributed Monitoring Architec-ture” as probes. With this configuration and together with the µQXManager Centrex Viewer Server, the User has sur-velliance and vision for the entire network.

IPXPlorer® fits into different scenarios such as the NGN area for Signalling, Media, and Trunk gateways analysis, troubleshooting

and Quality of Service verification.

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