PacketScan™ HD - Network Monitoring Appliance

Capture and analyze high speed Ethernet traffic over
1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps networks.

Overview

PacketScan™ HD is a high density Ethernet monitoring appliance with specialized network interface cards, large storage capacity and protocol analysis software. Customers can choose the specific Ethernet data rate for the network interface cards including 4 x 1 GigE (PKV120), 2 x 10 GigE (PKV122), 2 x 40 GigE (PKV123) and 2 x 40 / 2 x 100 GigE (PKV124) variations. Almost all VoIP and Wireless protocols over IP transport layer can be captured and decoded for troubleshooting network problems.

PacketScan™ HD includes the PacketScan™ software which can provide in-depth real-time and post-process data investigation with its Packet Data Analysis (PDA) feature. The PDA view assists in comparing multiple RTP sessions. The PDA view displays call information in graphical format and tabular format.

PDA feature is available for SIP, H323, MEGACO, MGCP, GSMA, Skinny, and IuCS based calls. PacketScan™ HD can work with NetSurveyorWeb™, a central monitoring system for a comprehensive view of network performance. It features rich graphics, ladder diagrams and CDRs (Call Detail Records). A web server is deployed in a central location along with an Oracle® database. Multiple PacketScan™ HD probes can be deployed in remote locations across the network to passively monitor VoIP traffic and send data to NetSurveyorWeb™.

GL's FastRecorder™ and PacketExtractor™ applications can capture and record packets on 1, 10, 25, 40, and 100 Gbps networks at wirespeed. The traffic is recorded from the FastRecorder™ application and extracted by the PacketExtractor™ which is then analyzed using PacketScan™ HD. The PacketScan™ HD can contain several terabytes of storage as requested by the customer. The PacketScan™ HD application supports decoding of eCPRI protocol. It also supports eCPRI protocol analysis tool which enables analysis and statistics of eCPRI message types such as IQ Data, Bit Sequence, Generic Data Transfer, Remote Memory Access, One-way Delay Measurement, Remote Reset, and Event Indication.

GL's IP Analytics™ tool along with FastRecorder™ and PacketExtractor™ application ensure Quality of Service (QoS) by analyzing IP-based data streams to meet performance standards. GL's IP Analytics™ offers detailed statistics for various parameters such as Layer 3, COS, Layer 4, IPv4/IPv6 Endpoints, UDP/TCP Endpoints, and conversations, enabling precise analysis of network performance. Capable to compute and visualize network metrics with millisecond precision, including Packet Count, Byte Count, Packets/sec, and Bits/sec, provides real-time insights crucial for optimizing network efficiency.

GL’s PacketScan™ 5G protocol analyzer supports monitoring of 5G networks. It captures, segregates, monitors, and collects statistics on all calls over N1/N2, N4, N8, N12 and N13 interfaces of the 5G network. The 5G Protocol Analyzer is an optional module that can be acquired with PacketScan™.

GL’s TCP Analytics application analyzes TCP connections between both internal Local Area Network (LAN) and external Wide Area Network (WAN) computers including servers and clients. The application helps troubleshoot large bandwidth consumption, failed TCP sessions, packet loss, poor TCP throughput and more. TCP Analytics (PKV400) is an optional application with PacketScan™ HD - Network Monitoring Appliance.

Main Features

Capacity	PacketScan™ can monitor up to 2000 simultaneous calls with bidirectional RTP traffic PacketScan™ HD can monitor 20000 simultaneous calls with bidirectional RTP traffic from 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps link rates. Up to 50000 calls can be achieved by scaling with higher configurations. Circular buffer with capture and view filters Monitor networks for long time periods spanning weeks or months at a time Users can deploy multiple PacketScan™ HD systems throughout a network and send data to a centralized database for complete network visibility Decrypt and analyze Voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE) calls over Internet secured Protocol Security (IPsec) connection Provides VoNR call statistics such as caller, callee, MOS scores, discarded packets and voice storage
Real-time and Offline Analysis Screen Shot of Real-time Analysis	Capture and analyze packets at wirespeed. Save the captured trace to a disk Analyze in real-time or analyze recorded trace files off-line Export captured files in CSV or ASCII file format All or filtered traffic can be recorded into a trace file Options to control the saving of trace file - user-defined prefixes, trace file with date-time prefixes, slider control to indicate the total number of files, file size, frame count, or time limit. Basic view comprises of – Summary, Detail, and Hex Dump view Any field from the protocol headers can be added to Summary view, i.e, user-configurable summary fields User can select a frame in Summary View to analyze and decode each frame in the Detail View. Options provided to hide/display, and copy content to clip board The Hex dump view displays the frame information in HEX and ASCII octet dump format Ability to export data to a comma delimited file for subsequent importing into a database or spreadsheet
Call Detail Records Screen Shot of Call Detail Record and Statistics View	Calls and sessions are classified as active, completed or failed giving the user an idea about the calls and its status in the network View call specific information such as duration of the completed call, source & destination addresses, type of call, release cause, conference id, call identifier and more Option to search for a particular call detail record from the captured traces PacketScan™ 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 Ability to export completed calls summary report of PDA in CSV file format, and analyze using custom Excel® addins
Statistics	Aggregate statistics can be obtained for any field or parameter in the protocol headers to study the performance of the overall VoIP network Provides frame count, byte count, frames/sec, and bytes/sec etc of any of the protocol fields
Supported Protocols	SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) RFC 3261- MAC, IP, IPv6, UDP, TCP, SMPP SIP ED-137 for Air Traffic Monitoring (Ground-to-Air, and Ground-to-Ground) SIP-I, SIP-T 5G N1N2, N4, N8, N12, and N13 Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) - RFC 4975 SCTP and Tunnel Filtering Megaco- RFC 3525, RFC 3015 MGCP – RFC 3991 H.323/H.225 RTP - RFC 3550, RTCP, T.38 and Video SS7 SIGTRAN – SS7 over IP (ISUP, MAP, CAP, TCAP, INAP, CNAM, CAMEL) SIGTRAN ISDN over IP - Q.931, DASS2 and DPNSS over DUA (ISDN Q.921-User Adaptation Layer) GSMA over IP - BSSAP+, BSSMAP, CC, MM, RR, GCC, BCC, SMS GSM Abis over IP - BTSM, CC, MM, RR, GCC, BCC, SMS GPRS - GPRS-Gb interface (BSSGP, LLC, SNDCP, GMM, SMG) GPRS – GPRS-Gn interface (GTPv2, GTP-IP, GTP-TCP, GTP-UDP) T.38 Fax and Video calls UMTS IuCS and IuPS over IP - RANAP, RNSAP, NBAP, CC, MM, RR LTE - S1AP, X2AP, NAS, eGTP Diameter – S6a, S6d, Cx, Dx, Zn, Zh, Wx, Gq, Gy, Sh, Dh, Gx, Rf, RO, Wg, Wm, Pr, Wa, Wd, Rx interfaces Skinny Call Control Protocol (SCCP) PacketScan™ supported Protocols
Supported Codecs	Almost all industry standard codecs supported. For more information, please see "Voice Codec" webpage.
As a stand-alone tool	Capture calls in real-time for infinite time In-depth real-time and post-process data investigation using Packet Data Analysis feature Monitor adherence to protocol standards and report Flexibility to add any protocol field to the summary view, filtering, and search features Analyze with rich graphics, ladder diagrams, call trace Complex Filtering and Search capabilities to record all or filtered traffic into a trace file Option to create multiple aggregate column groups and prioritize the groups as per the requirement to display the summary results efficiently Consolidated interface allows access to all the important settings, and auto-startup actions; all the configurations done in any of these options can be saved to a file, and later loaded back to perform automated and repeated testing Ability to connect to a central database for remote monitoring. The database may be accessed through a web browser for convenient viewing and analysis
As a Probe with Central Monitoring System - NetSurveyorWeb™	PacketScan™ 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.
As a Single Point Packet over IP CDR Analysis System	PacketScan™ HD can work with GL’s VoiceBand Analyzer and Call Detail Records applications to generate call detail records as CSV files and voice files for each direction. The call detail records are used for further analysis using built-in Excel® tools.
Filtering and Search Screen Shot of Real-time Capture filter Screen Shot of Offline View Filter	Filtering and search capabilities add a powerful dimension to the SIP analyzer Allows the user to automatically create search/filter criteria from the current screen selection Analyze frames of interest, user can select real-time capture filters which also includes protocol filter Isolate required frames from original frames in real-time/offline Set filters on Data Link layer, MAC layer, IP, TCP/UDP and more Any protocol field can be added to the filtering, and search features providing users more flexibility to monitor required protocol fields The offline filter allows filtering based on frame number, time, length, message types, etc User can create their own filters using custom filter option which provides flexibility to the user to check the fields and use the logical conditions more efficiently
Packet Data Analysis	SIP, MSRP, RTP, H.323, MEGACO, MGCP, GSMA, IuCS, and Skinny (SCCP) protocols supported RTP packet statistics for each direction of a call Full RTP Analysis with audio capture/playback supported for all common codecs Supports decoding of AMR and AMR_WB codec with IuUP Header Supports decoding of Voice over LTE A host of counters gives the user an instantaneous snapshot of the VoIP traffic on the network Graphical representation of statistics including ladder diagrams of VoIP calls Save calls in HDL, PCAP, or PCAPNG file format for further analysis Ability to export PDA summary and detail reports of selected or all calls in PDF file format. Ability to export completed calls summary report of PDA in CSV file format, and analyze using custom Excel® addins The RTCP-XR (Real-time Transport Control Protocol Extended header) VoIP Metrics Report Block 7 provides the information about the voice quality (i.e MOS score) of the opposite traffic channel Provides a complete call flow of a 5G session
Performance Metrics	Signaling, audio, and video QoS parameters for each call T.38 Analysis - The application has the call graph and T.38 ladder diagram display. User can decode T.38 frames received over VoIP calls and can have ladder diagram for T.38 traffic flow, reassemble the fragmented data and to identify the T.30 message from it Displays a summary of signaling, audio, and video parameters such as Source/Destination Video Channels, Media Type, SSRC, Average Delay/Gap, Packet Counts, Media Delivery Index and Frame Rate for all video calls Minimum, maximum and average round trip delay Inband (DTMF & MF) events, Outband events as per RFC 2833 or RFC 4733 events, RFC 2833 events, RTP/RTCP packet count and reports per direction
QOS Parameters	E-model (G.107) based MOS/R-Factor scores Media Delivery Index (Delay Factor: Media Loss Rate) for video calls H.263, H.264 codec support Measure jitter, delay and gap for audio and video traffic
Triggers and Actions	Trigger intelligent actions based on signaling and traffic conditions Filter incoming packets based on occurrences of particular signaling or traffic parameters followed by a set of actions for the completed calls
Traffic (Digits, Audio, Video, Fax) Handling	Segregation of IP traffic, VoIP, and Fax calls Filters based on WhiteList Calls, Criteria based Voice/Trace Recording All traffic supported – Digits, Tones, Voice, Video, Fax Capture Fax calls and extract fax images in TIFF format Audio capture/playback - Listen and Record RTP (Audio) streams
SIP Registration Details	Registration statistics and trace messages depicted graphically Provides the registration summary of each SIP registration including the user agent, registrar, status, registered time, expiry time, time to live, remaining time, and Registration Request Delay (RRD)
Utilities	Provides HDL File Conversion Launcher to convert Ethereal format file (.PCAP, .CAP, and .PCAPNG) to GL's file format (.HDL) and vice-versa Includes Excel® Addins to import CDRs into Excel® to analyze using Pivot Table, and Pivot Charts

Platforms

PacketScan™ HD - Network Monitoring Appliance

Specifications
Supported Interfaces	4x 1 Gbps – 850/1310 nm SFP Module; Ethernet/Optical SFP modules 2x 10 Gbps – 10GBASE-SR SFP+; Optical only 2x 40 Gbps – MTP/MPO Connector for CFP2; Optical only 2x 40/2x 100 Gbps – MTP/MPO Connector for CFP2; Optical only
Hardware Filters Screenshot of Hardware Filters	Supports defining up to 10 filters at Layer 2, 3, 4, and 5 MAC: Frames can be filtered out based on Ether Type and FCS Error VLAN 0, 1, 2: Filters frames based on Tag protocol ID, User Priority, CFI, and VLAN ID IPV4: Frames can be filtered based on Source IP Address, Destination IP Address, Protocol Type, Header Length, Differentiated Services, Ds_ECN, DS_CodePoint, Total Length, Check Sum Error, IP Datagram ID, Fragmentation Offset, Flag_DontFragment and Flag_MoreFragments IPv6: Frames can be filtered based on Source IP address, Destination IP address, Next Header, and Payload Length Tunnel Traffic: Tunnel filter provides a method to filter the packets of one protocol within another protocol. GTP, GRE and VXLAN are available tunneling methods. Hardware filters can be applied to Tunnel 1 and Tunnel 2 layers ARP: Frames can be filtered based on Sender MAC Address, Target MAC Address, Sender IP Address, Target IP Address and Option Code TCP: In TCP layer Frames, can be filtered based on source port, destination port and check sum error UDP: In UDP layer Frames can be filtered based on source port, destination port, check sum error, UDP length and payload. For more details, refer to SCTP: SCTP packets can also be filtered based on source port or destination port SIP and RTP: SIP and RTP packets can also be filtered based on source port or destination port
OSI	MAC, ARP, IP, IGMP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, SCTP, FTP, HTTP, TLS, SMTP
Protocols	GSM, UMTS, LTE, IMS, SIP, RTP, T.38, RTCP, and much more (some protocol support requires additional licensing)
Capture Timestamp	Absolute, Relative, Difference, NTP 4 Nano-second resolution
Captured Trace Format	GL’s Proprietary HDL, PCAP, PCAPNG Frame Decodes can be saved to TXT file format
Filter	Hardware Filter at line rate, Application Level Capture Filter, and Post Processing Filter and Search
Performance	4 x 1GigE - 20000 calls with bi-directional RTP traffic 2 x 10GigE - 30000 calls with bi-directional RTP traffic Extracting/recording voice 2500 simultaneous calls (maximum) Option to record filtered calls of interest only

Retrive Data: Failed

Codecs

Resources

Item No.	Item Description
PKV120	PacketScan™ HD – High Density IP Traffic Analyzer w/ 4x1GigE includes PKV100 – Online (not Offline) for temporary audio codec support Accessories SFP Transceiver for 1 Gbps, Electrical, RJ45 (2) Ethernet cables (2)
PKV120p	PacketScan™ HD w/4 x 1GigE - Portable Accessories SFP Transceiver for 1 Gbps, Electrical, RJ45 (2) Ethernet cables (2) Pelican Carry Case (1) Power Cable with international standards (1)
PKV122	PacketScan™ HD – High Density IP Traffic Analyzer w/ 2x10GigE includes PKV100 – Online (not Offline) for temporary audio codec support Accessories Multirate SFP+ (SM or MM) (2)
PKV122p	PacketScan™ HD w/2 x 10 GigE - Portable Accessories Multirate SFP+ (SM or MM) (2) Pelican Carry Case (1) Power Cable with international standards
PKV124	PacketScan™ HD w/40/100 GigE Accessories QSFP+ (SM or MM) (2) Optical cable as required
PKV124P	PacketScan™ HD w/40/100 GigE - Portable Accessories Multirate SFP+ (SM or MM) (2) Optical cable as required Pelican Carry Case (1) Power Cable with international standards (1)
PKV121	PacketScan™ FB - (Offline Analyzer)
PKV123	PacketRecorder™ HD & PacketRePlay™ HD
PKV400	TCP Analytics (Optional with PacketScan™)

Specifications are subject to change without notice.

Brochures
PacketScan™ HD Brochure
PacketScan™ 5G Protocol Analyzer Brochure
TCP Analytics Brochure

Presentations
PacketScan™ HD Presentation
PacketScan™ 5G Protocol Analyzer Presentation
TCP Analytics Presentation

Webinars

IP/VoIP Analysis & Simulation

PacketScan™ HD - Network Monitoring Appliance

Overview

Main Features

Platforms

Resources