Product category: Stand-Alone Instruments
News Release from: Tektronix | Subject: NET-GPRS V4.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 8 February 2002
GPRS monitoring system
checks quality of service
Tektronix has added significant extensions to its monitoring system for deployment and performance verification of GPRS networks
The new Version 4.0 (V4.0) software for Tektronix' NET-GPRS monitoring system enhances the product's integrated set of optimisation and troubleshooting tools for GPRS networks, adding features that enable correlation and analysis of messages from both telecomms and Internet protocol (IP) based interfaces within the GPRS network.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 February 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Framework to automate compliance testing
The combination of Tektronix instruments and the open nature of NI TestStand software gives customers a platform to rapidly characterise new products and bring them to market faster
Software has scope for ultrawideband testing
Package extends the debug and analysis capabilities of DPO/DSA70000 oscilloscopes to include real-time analysis of ultrawideband RF and electrical signals
In addition, the NET-GPRS system is the first of its kind to offer automatic deciphering, which is required for specific GPRS interfaces.
"By providing an advanced monitoring system that addresses a combination of telecom and IP based interfaces, Tektronix is enabling operators to more efficiently address next-generation mobile network requirements", said Johannes Schaedel, vice president, Mobile Business Unit, Tektronix: "With the NET-GPRS system's V4.0, telecom and IP based interface information is presented in one integrated analysis environment, providing a unique convergent view, and network operators monitoring specific interfaces can use the automatic deciphering feature to provide subscribers with enhanced quality of service".
It is common practice to encipher the content on the Gb (telecomms) interface in a GPRS network (this is in addition to any encryption that may be applied to the transmission at its origin).
Further reading
Software simplifies RF waveform generation
Advanced software package provides a user interface that makes creation and management of general purpose digital RF waveforms far more intuitive
HDMI compliance tests come up to date
Tektronix reckons it now offers the most complete and cost effective test suite for performing HDMI 1.3b compliance testing
Enciphering makes some GPRS procedures and subscriber activities invisible to most monitoring tools, and the function must be switched off to allow proper monitoring and analysis.
The NET-GPRS system's V4.0 is the first solution of its kind that can automatically decipher information, providing unhampered access to all protocol messages.
Enciphering remains "on", and subscribers receive the security and privacy they expect, even as the NET-GPRS system's V4.0 speeds troubleshooting on the network.
The NET-GPRS system's distributed network-wide monitoring approach allows it to acquire information from diverse interfaces, protocol stacks and geographical areas of the network.
With V4.0 software, the system gains procedure trace and protocol analysis capabilities for a host of IP interfaces including Gn, Gp, and Gi, as well as telecomms interfaces including Gb and Gr.
A procedure trace tracks, collects and stores the history of subscribers' activity throughout a network.
With the NET-GPRS V4.0 procedure trace capability, operators can quickly determine whether inefficiencies are originating within their GPRS network or elsewhere in the external IP realm.
The procedure trace, therefore, is a key tool for maintaining quality of service (QoS) and reducing customer churn in an emerging GPRS network.
• Tektronix: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Electronicstalk email newsletter
• NEW
• Electronicstalk Home Page
Related Business News
Ni Labview Real-time Now Targets Wind River Vxworks Rtos
National Instruments has extended the NI LabVIEW graphical programming environment to now target the Wind River VxWorks real-time operating system , which has been deployed in more than 350 million devices worldwide including the lat
Keithley intros 6.5-digit USB digital multimeter
Keithley Instruments Inc. has released the Model 2100 6.5-digit USB digital multimeter (DMM), a high precision, low-cost USB-based instrument.
Taiwan stocks end down in biggest...
...drop in over 1 yr. Taipei, July 27 (Reuters) - Taiwan shares fell 4.22 percent on Friday to their lowest close in three weeks, marking their largest one-day percentage drop in more than a year, after a sell-off on Wall Street hurt big exporters such as TSMC .
Nippon Oil Aug refining seen flat, eyes Sudan crude
Tokyo, July 27 (Reuters) - Japan's top oil refiner Nippon Oil Corp. will keep its August processing volumes steady versus a year ago to meet summer gasoline demand and is seeking more Nile Blend crude to meet higher utility use.
Fluor Gains Eastman Chemical Gasification Plant Feed Work
Fluor Corporation announced today that it was selected by Eastman Chemical Company to provide front-end engineering and design work for a $1.6 billion gasification project along the Texas Gulf Coast.
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
