What do you need?
Reduce user plane traffic to the monitoring tools
Mobile core network switches adopt GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) to carry mobile data across the network.
In the recent years, the overall volume of the data moving through mobile networks has dramatically grown, causing several challenges to the existing monitoring tools. Rather than add new probes with the view of cope with the high traffic flow, the Operator might prefer to reduce user plane traffic sending only the relevant data to the monitoring tools.
This is where Microtel Innovation can help, improving monitoring tools efficiency and allowing Telecom Operators to stick within the budget.
How Microtel Innovation can help
Aster XGB Series and Aster XFE Streamliner
Microtel Innovation provides several solution to manage and reduce the ever growing GTP traffic in core network sites.
All our devices perform stateful correlation of the GTP- U and GTP-C traffic, load balancing the output traffic belonging to the same subscriber to a unique output port. Moreover, to reduce the amount of data sent to the monitoring tools, Microtel Innovation provides several filtering criteria (i.e. IMSI, APN, Inner IP, etc.).
All the features above mentioned are included in our solutions, the powerful XFE Streamliner, which has also the capability to execute advanced Packet Manipulation operations like deduplication, header stripping, packet slicing and source port labeling.
Choose the right product for your needs
Compare the different solutions that Microtel Innovation offers to manage GTP traffic in core network sites. To discover more download the technical datasheet or visit the dedicated web page.
| Product | Aster A-XFE Streamliner | Aster A-818 XGB GTP Load Adapter | Aster A-820 XGB GTP Load Adapter | Aster A-718 XGB GTP Load Balancer | Aster A-720 XGB GTP Load Balancer |
| Download Technical Datasheet | |||||
| PERFORMANCES | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Traffic for GTP and APM capabilities | 200Gb/s | 100Gb/s | 100Gb/s | 100Gb/s | 100Gb/s |
| INPUT/OUTPUT PORTS | |||||
| Max number of 100Gb/s ports | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Max number of 40Gb/s ports | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Max number of 10Gb/s ports | 80 | 40 | 20 | 40 | 20 |
| Max number of 1Gb/s ports | 0 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| NETWORK PROTOCOLS AND INTERFACES | |||||
| GTPv1-C, GTPv2-C, GTPv1-U | |||||
| 2G, 3G, 4G interfaces | |||||
| IPV4/ IPV6 | |||||
| IP Packet fragmentation (all fragments belonging to the same subscriber are sent to the same output port) | |||||
| GTP FUNCTIONALITIES | |||||
| GTP CORRELATION | |||||
| – IMSI based correlation | |||||
| – TEID based correlation | |||||
| GTP LOAD BALANCING | |||||
| – GTP-U and GTP-C belonging to the same subscriber are sent to the same output port | |||||
| GTP SAMPLING | |||||
| – Session aware sampling | – | – | |||
| – Output traffic after sampling (as percentage of input traffic) | Configurable | 25%, 50%, 75% | 25%, 50%, 75% | – | – |
| GTP SESSION AWARE FILTERING | |||||
| – IMSI White/Black list | – | – | |||
| – APN White/Black list | – | – | |||
| – INNER IP (IPV4, IPV6) White/Black list | – | – | |||
| – VoLTE filtering | – | – | |||
| – GTP-U, GTP-C, GTP-Cv1, GTP-Cv2, GTP-V1, GTP-V2 | – | – |
Other functionalities available with Aster A-XFE Streamliner
| ADDITIONAL GTP SESSION AWARE FILTERING CAPABILITIES | |
|---|---|
| – IMEI White/Black list | |
| – MSISDN White/Black list | |
| – ULI (CGI, SAI, RAI, TAI, ECGI, LAI) | |
| – RAT | |
| – Service network | |
| – QCI | |
| L2-L4 NETWORK PACKET BROKER | |
| Switching capacity | 2Tb/s |
| L2-L4 filtering | |
| Traffic replication | |
| Traffic aggregation | |
| ADVANCED PACKET MANIPULATION (APM) FUNCTIONALITIES | |
| Packet Deduplication | |
| Detunneling/ Header Stripping | |
| Packet Slicing | |
| Source Port Labelling |
