PacketScanPX™ - Wirespeed filter, capture and analysis

Overview

GL's PacketScanPX™ application combines the features of PacketScan™ analyzer with the capabilities of PacketExpert™ hardware capture and filter features.

PacketExpert™ Hardware (PXN100) is a versatile Ethernet testing tool, with various testing functionalities, one of which is the wirespeed capture functionality. This is a quad port unit, of which 2 are 10 Gbps SFP+ based ports, and other 2 are 10/100/1000 Mbps Electrical/Optical ports. For some of the functionalities, the 10 Gbps SFP+ ports can be downshifted to support 1Gbps ports, thus offering 4 Electrical / 4 Optical 1 Gbps ports for ethernet testing. SFP ports can be used as RJ45 ports by plugging in the appropriate Electrical (Copper) SFPs. The same 10Gbps ports can also be converted to 2.5Gbps Electrical interface using appropriate SFPs.

The application captures on either 10 Gbps ports or 1 Gbps ports. PacketExpert™ hardware allows user to capture either at full wirespeed of up to 10 Gbps up to a limit of 8 GBytes (using the built-in 8 GB DDR3 memory) or apply a filter and capture continuously at a reduced rate of around 2 Gbps (actual rate may vary depending on the capture conditions). Traffic can be captured on both ports simultaneously (i.e in each direction).
For more information refer to PacketExpert™ webpage.

GL's PacketScan™ - an All-IP Network Monitoring software offers powerful features to capture and monitor live signaling and traffic over IP (version 4 and 6). The application can capture, segregate, monitor and collect statistics of all types of calls over IP. Almost all VoIP and Wireless protocols and traffic types over IP network, as listed here, can be captured, and decoded for troubleshooting network problems.

• Supports decoding of almost all industry standard signaling protocols – See Protocol List for more details.
• SIP, SIP-I, SIP-T, H.323, MEGACO, MGCP, Skinny (SCCP)
• IMS-SIP, Diameter
• LTE (requires additional licensing)
• SIGTRAN – SS7, ISDN (requires additional licensing)
• GSM A and Abis over IP (requires additional licensing)
• GPRS Gb and Gn over IP (requires additional licensing)
• UMTS IuCs and IuPs over IP (requires additional licensing)
• T.38 and Video calls
• ED-137/ED-138  (requires additional licensing)

For more information refer to PacketScan™ webpage.

PacketScanPX™ allows to set hardware level filters for capture flexibility. Up to 16 hardware level filters can be defined per port. Filters can be set for various header fields like Source/Destination MAC/IP addresses, UDP/TCP ports, 802.1Q VLAN Id/Priority fields, IP ToS/DSCP fields, Frame size etc. and also a user defined raw hex filter of 120 byte length, with an offset (to filter 120 bytes of raw hex data anywhere within the packet). Further, the individual filters can be combined into groups and the groups can be further combined into super groups for additional flexibility.

Main Features

• Capture and analyze Ethernet/IP traffic on either 1G ports or 10G ports (two 1G ports or two 10G ports).
• Capture and analyze at full wirespeed, up to 8 Gbytes of traffic utilizing the onboard 8 GB DDR3 RAM.
• Capture and analyze continuously at reduced rates of up to 2 Gbps (depends on the conditions).
• Complex Filtering capabilities to filter incoming wirespeed traffic at the hardware level, and forward to packet analyzer.
• Create up to 16 user defined hardware filters per port to filter-out traffic based on MAC, VLAN, IP, MPLS, TCP, UDP, Framesize and Raw Hex Bytes parameters.
• Precise hardware timestamping with accuracy in microseconds.
• PacketScanPX™ can monitor progress of up to 2000 simultaneous calls with bidirectional RTP traffic
• Capture and analyze packets through real-time analysis. Save the captured trace to a disk
• Statistics can be obtained for any fields or parameters in the protocol to study the performance and trend in the VoIP network.
• Provides frame count, byte count, frames/sec, and bytes/sec etc of any of the protocol fields
• PacketScanPX™ can work with GL's VoiceBand Analyzer (VBA) and Call Data Records (CDR) applications to provide useful call detail records. These records can be investigated for bad calls using custom Excel® addins.
• PacketScanPX™ can send protocol fields, and call detail records, along with traffic summary of captured calls to a central database. NetSurveyorWeb™ displays the data from the database in a simple web-based browser, featuring rich graphics, custom search, report and filter configurations.
• PacketScanPX™ can work with GL's VoiceBand Analyzer (VBA) and Call Data Records (CDR) applications to record voice files for each direction.