Achieving Complete LTE Readiness

Accelerating The Connected World

Worlds First Large-Scale LTE Network

"As we maintain and deploy America's most advanced 4G LTE network, we knew we needed a monitoring solution that helps assure that our services perform seamlessly for our customers. Tektronix Communications' customer driven innovation approach resulted in a solution uniquely capable of meeting our business and operational requirements.

Nicola Palmer Vice President of Networks

Achieving Complete LTE Readiness ?

Its not enough to build and deploy a functional network
OSS and BSS must also be set up from day one to minimize technical and financial risks Operators must recognize a return on their huge investments FAST

Its too expensive and inefficient to deploy systems for LTE as independent silos
LTE networks are going to operate in parallel with 3G networks for quite some time
Operational Readiness
Functional network with all necessary OSS for performance management, troubleshooting, etc. from lab testing through FOA to live network

Commercial Readiness
Integration with mission-critical BSS such as billing, fraud, customer experience, etc.

Operational Readiness
Conformance and operation within the LTE network
Interoperation with other networks Troubleshooting tools and processes for Tier 2-3 Proactive performance monitoring Manage traffic growth and continuous network expansion

Commercial Readiness

Early, efficient integration with BSS and processes Empowering customer care

Manage new revenue and service strategies

Track subscriber behavior and service usage

Carriers Concerns EPC/LTE

Carriers rated integration and handovers their #1 concern Policy control rated #2 with carriers showing concern on the growth of data services Interoperability between vendors rated #3 as carriers show concern over NEM implementations

Addressing LTEs Unique Challenges

Cross-Network Visibility
LTE is not an island. As many other networks play an important role, interoperability carries great significance. Setup alone for an LTE session requires at least 10 hops and hand-downs to 3G only extend the required visibility.

Unless a system can capture all the hops you will miss critical pieces of information needed to manage interworking networks.

The Solution 1. Provides complete visibility to hand downs from LTE. 2. Enables reporting, monitoring and troubleshooting across technical borders from one system. 3. Supports an unlimited number of hops.

Multi-network, Multi-hop Support

Addressing LTEs Unique Challenges

Full Subscriber-based Correlation
GUTIs provide the key to associating activity with a particular subscriber IMSI. In LTE environments, this temporary ID changes less often than in 3G due to inherent security measures and may remain unchanged for more than 24 hours.

Failure to capture, decrypt and correlate the IMSI to the GUTI when it occurs compromises data integrity and visibility to the subscriber.

The Solution 1. Patent-pending mapping algorithm efficiently decrypts and correlates subscriber identities including GUTI, IMSI, MSISDN. 2. Real-time capture is superior to samplingelimination of postprocessing ensures critical messages are captured.

Complete and Quick Retrieval of all Associated Messages

Addressing LTEs Unique Challenges

Automatic Network Discovery
As LTE networks are rolled out, engineering resources turn up 100s of eNodeBs each day. The communication of these voluminous field activities impacts a monitoring systems performance. The Solution
eNB

Without the ability to automatically detect and monitor new nodes, visibility to the nodes performance is either delayed or lost.

S1-MME

MME

S11
SGW MME

1. Auto-discovery eliminates the manual and error-prone intervention otherwise required to begin monitoring. 2. Auto-discovery accelerates visibility to new node activity.

X2
eNB

S11

S1-MME

New Monitored Nodes are Reflected Immediately in the System

Addressing LTEs Unique Challenges

Real-time Visibility to Change Control
LTE networks undergo frequent change due to software updates and expansion of LTE coverage and the support of IMS, DIAMETER and other services. LTEs complexity requires visibility to these changes in order to prevent failures and outages.

Without real-time proceduralbased KPI visibility to a nodes behavior before, during and after a change is committed can delay the triggering of alarms.

The Solution 1. Critical performance metrics are presented and updated every 60 seconds in a single dashboard view. 2. Degrading service is detected immediately allowing rollback or other corrective actions to be taken to minimize the impact.

Minute-by-minute Analysis Highlights Failures Needing Action

Addressing LTEs Unique Challenges

Integrated VoLTE Service and Media QoE
As mobile voice services are a leading source of revenue, ensuring service QoE for VoLTE and fallback networks is imperative. Subscribers have high expectations around voice quality that must be met. The Solution 1. Provides for end-to-end signaling and media visibility across multiple network domains. 2. All mobile voice QoE measurements are available for each call and node. 3. Proven experience in assuring voice in any domain.

Without flexible and secure media capture, analysis and playback within the same system, productivity in troubleshooting is reduced.

Voice Quality Analyzed in LTE Networks

Addressing LTEs Unique Challenges

DNS Traffic Discrimination
DNS-managed routing selections require interaction with the IMS Core. When not working, nothing gets routed. Heavy DNS is also used for User Plane traffic. As DNS is a critical function, it has major impact if it is not working properly.

Without DNS Discrimination, messages can get lost in the noise. If the ones that matter cannot be found in a timely matter, network outages can Result

The Solution 1. Tagging and separation of User DNS from Infrastructure DNS allows for a better view of what matters most. 2. Support for DNS Timeouts including provisioning and IMS core changes.

Ladder Filtering Provides Focus on Key DNS Messages

Addressing LTEs Unique Challenges

Subscriber-based Control Plane
While over 90% of LTE bandwidth is User Plane, the correlation of UP to CP remains critical to solving complex LTE issues. Reveal how your bandwidth is being used and analyze destinations and subscriber use in detail over time. The Solution
1. 2. 3. Troubleshoot sessions with complete user plane data. Eliminate need to recreate issues by retrieving automatically captured data. While data summaries keep data readily available, complete drillthrough to full UP detail is only a few clicks away.

Without near-line rate deciphering capabilities, a system cannot accurately and consistently associate control plane data with individual subscribers.

Complete Visibility into Subscriber Service Performance

RAN Intelligence
Insight into Radio Management
In LTE network, the RAN intelligence (i.e radio resource management) is built within eNodeBs

24*7 RAN Monitoring without probing hardware at eNodeB sites. Full range of Layer 3 RAN and E2E KPIs in IPI Application
SGW

eNodeB trace data forwarded to probe sites The Solution

1. Supports Monitoring the LTE RAN via eNodeB Trace Port, 24*7 2. Multiple protocol correlation capability by including radio resource management information on per subscriber per session basis 3. Trouble shooting eased by correlation of all interfaces from RAN to core network in Call Trace
S1-U

eNodeB trace data

S1-MME

No requirement for probing hardware at eNodeB site MME

Addressing LTEs Unique Challenges

Deep Packet Classification
Complete visibility to the data pipe is required to maximize the return on deployed assets and improve the subscriber experience. Drive better PCRF and charging model decisions, fine tune the network for growth and resolve complex issues.

Without a common view of CP enhanced with DPC UP, service by handset/subscriber visibility is limited.

The Solution 1. Onboard, integrated solution with minimal performance impact. 2. Best-in-class classification leverages behavioral analytics. 3. Frequent update of signature library ensures applicability in everchanging environment.

Informed decisions and effective actions require visibility.

Addressing LTEs Unique Challenges

Support for Commercial Readiness
While BSS integration accelerates LTE commercial readiness from day one, the cost and complexity of capturing critical business data must be minimized. Programmable, tailored data feeds allow multiple applications to utilize information from a single, reliable source.

Without flexible data record generation and tailored outputs, BSS systems must rely on incomplete or inconsistent information.

The Solution
1. Detailed flexible xdr data feeds. 2. Includes multi-domain, multi-hop, multi-data sources. 3. Provides full UP + CP record correlation, normalization and mapping. 4. Can support multiple applications including TekComm CEM offerings.
Monitored Network Data

Single Mediation Platform

Finance

Sales / Network / IT Marketing Operations

Network / IT Planning

Rich Information for BSS

Whats Next? The Customer Insights

Manage the Customer Experience of data services with a unique view of the consumption and quality of the data pipe as experienced by individual customers and devices.
Adjust charging models to align with high-bandwidth, high demand services. Recommend policies that give priority to monetized streaming services

Create service tiers to fill usage gaps.

Tune service experience based on the most popular devices. Bundle device upgrades with new service offerings

Enabling the Smart Pipe as a key carrier differentiator

Expertise You Can Trust

Proven experience with wireless technology Thought Leadership: Drive industry leadership turns
From 2G through 2.5G, 3G and 4G

Recognized leadership and expertise

Involvement with NEM developers from initial development and testing stages

Proven ability to scale for large mobile deployments

Nationwide mobile voice and data network serving 92.8 million subscribers

and direction through the following forums: TMF GSMA 3GPP IETF The highest annual R&D investment in our market

Patents:
2 granted & 4 pending covering QoS improvements, cell congestion & policy enforcement

18 LTE Wins
Worldwide participation in LTE network trials

We accelerate the connected world

Our solutions and services simplify network complexity, ultimately to assure the personalization of customers connected experiences

Company Overview 2011

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