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MobileStack
Visibility intelligence tailored for the mobile carrier evolved packet core
Introduction to MobileStack
Keysight's MobileStack provides subscriber-level traffic visibility inside mobile core networks. By deploying MobileStack to correlate the user and data planes within both GTP and SIP traffic, your monitoring probes are able to work more efficiently while you gain a higher degree of control of your mobile networks.
Keysight’s Mobile Core Visibility
As the world moves to 5G, the number of mobile subscribers is increasing rapidly, and subscribers are using their mobile devices for much more complex tasks than ever before. To address these concerns, service providers are implementing mobile core visibility.
Keysight’s 5G visibility solutions now include MobileStack on Vision X, the highest performance mobile core visibility platform in the market today, built for transitioning your service assurance platform to 5G.
MobileStack can correlate hundreds of millions subscriber sessions and almost 2000 gigs of user plane traffic per chassis and is built from the ground up for 5G performance.
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MobileStack Features
GTP/SIP Correlation
To monitor quality of service (QoS) and assure quality of experience (QoE) for a mobile subscriber, you need complete visibility for all of a subscriber’s data sessions. QoS and QoE are monitored with probes that generate relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) based on subscriber traffic. Probes, however, are not designed to correlate session traffic. With their resources dedicated to other functions, a capacity limitation ensues in regards to the number of subscribers, throughput, and packets per second (pps) they can support. With the GTP/SIP session correlation feature, you can recreate a subscriber's full data session by tapping the various control and data plane interfaces and directing all traffic belonging to a given user to the same monitoring probe. Offloading the correlation to Vision X, Vision ONE, GTP Session Controller (GSC) or CloudLens can free probe resources by up to 50% — allowing you to scale out your monitoring infrastructure.
- True correlation covers at least S1-U, S11 interfaces, as well as handovers from LTE to 4G to 3G, etc.
- Other interfaces usually covered by probes are S5/8, S6a, S1-MME
GTP and SIP Load Balancing
To scale a monitoring infrastructure, load balancing is required to ensure network probes get distributed traffic or sessions. Distribution ensures multiple probes can split the load of monitoring quality of service (QoS) without exceeding a given probe's capacity.
- Enabled by load balancing GTP/SIP data plane traffic based on probe throughput capacity
- Enhanced by GTP/SIP session correlation function, assuring that traffic for one subscriber’s control and data sessions always reaches the same monitoring probe
Coupled with GTP/SIP correlation functionality, load balancing can be done on more than just throughput – one can load balance based on the number of supported subscribers per probe or by the supported packets per second (pps), which are often exceeded long before throughput.
Subscriber Filtering
Subscriber aware filtering enables two crucial use-cases for operators. First, it can be used as a debugging technique. Data from users who are using new features can be selectively filtered and analyzed. Second, it can be used with the subscriber sampling feature to assure always-on monitoring of high value subscribers.
You can get the same globally relevant statistics without losing visibility of key customers. This allows flexibility in ensuring visibility of user experience by different subscriber segments. It reduces costs associated with infrastructure while allowing an operator to provide customer's different SLAs.
Subscribers can be identified either by IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) or IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity).
Subscriber Sampling
Reduce costs by sending only a certain percentage of the subscriber traffic to the monitoring infrastructure. Help improve throughput and limit load on tools, while still getting the insight needed to manage QoS and monitoring quality of experience (QoE).
- If a representative sample of data is selected, the variation in Probe KPIs (e.g. the percentage of calls dropped over a given period) will not be statistically significant.
- This feature can be used together with subscriber aware filtering to provide allowlist capabilities for high value customers that are never sampled out.
Subscriber Allowlisting
Do you have a VIP customer that always needs to be included in your sampling? No problem. Keysight offers a allowlist capacity of 8 million customers based on IMSI or IMEI. You don't have to worry about losing visibility for your high-value customers as subscriber allowlisting ensures these customers are always included in the session sample sent to probes for monitoring. To obtain the full call for monitoring, you have the option to allowlist by caller or callee so that the cause of an issue can be pinpointed if something were to go wrong.
Packet Core Filtering
Reduce monitoring costs by selectively sending traffic to probes based on traffic type. For example, you could send only voice over IP (VoIP) / voice over LTE (VoLTE) traffic or 4G traffic to probes, but not 2G, 3G, etc. This makes the monitoring infrastructure more efficient, allowing faster resolution of issues based on traffic types.
Parameters for filtering include:
- Radio Access Technology (RAT) – 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G
- Bearer QoS Class Identifier (QCI), which can distinguish for example between regular data, voice and video conferencing
- APN (Access Point Name, which can further be used for differentiating between the data APN and VoLTE IMS for example)
MobileStack Enabled Products
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| FEATURES | |||||
| GTP Correlation | X | X | X | ||
| GTP Load Balancing | X | X | X | X | |
| GTP Flow Distribution | X | ||||
| Subscriber Filtering | X | X | X | X (Deny-by only) | |
| Allowlist | X | X | X | ||
| Sampling | X | X | X | ||
| Subscriber Filtering | X | X | |||
| Fragmentation |
X | X | X (SIP only) | ||
| Backup and Restore | X | X | |||
| GRE Origination | X | X | X | X | |
| GRE Termination | X | X | X | ||
| Simultaneous PacketStack functionalities | X | X | |||
| 3GPP INTERFACE SUPPORT | |||||
| S1/S11 | X | X | X | X | X |
| Gn |
X | X | X | X | |
| S6a | X | ||||
| S1MME |
X | ||||
| S5 |
X | X | X | X | |
| S8 | X | X | X | X | |
| S2b | X | X | X | ||
Visibility for the Mobile Core
Subscriber satisfaction drives a mobile operator's business health. Operators need a monitoring structure that provides them the information they need to reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) of key issues. An infrastructure that allows them to manage quality of service (QoS), monitoring, and quality of experience (QoE).
Specialized visibility, tailored for the evolved packet core (EPC), whether in physical, virtual, or hybrid deployments, is required to create a scalable monitoring infrastructure. MobileStack capabilities provide the subscriber-aware visibility an operator needs. These capabilities are offered on Keysight's GTP Session Controller (GSC), Vision ONE with VoIP, Vision X, and in CloudLens.
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