Overview

Mobile service providers need to optimise their performance, and when issue occur, NetScout's Mobile intelligence helps the rapid identification of faults, and rapidly reduces the time to resolution.

Mobile service providers require a solution for IP-based service assurance to analyse service quality and improve performance. Ultimately they require a solution that minimizes operational expenditures while improving subscriber experience. 

Sniffer® Mobile Intelligence enables mobile wireless carriers to test, deploy, and operate 2.5G, 3G, and emerging 4G mobile wireless data networks by providing a means of examining subscriber sessions and performing protocol analysis.

Utilized on the wired/core side of Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems (UMTS), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 2000, WiMAX, and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) networks, Sniffer Mobile Intelligence helps mobile operators resolve issues related to subscriber registration, network latency, dropped packets, and application response times, as well as Mobile IP and GPRS Tunnelling Protocols (GTP).

 Capabilities include:

• Utilizes nGenius InfiniStream to provide insight into the following mobile protocols:

  • 2.5G, 3G, and 4G mobile wireless networks
  • Tunnelling and Routing Encapsulation Protocols – GRE, IP-IP, GTP-U, Radius, and Diameter
  • CDMA Accounting and Control Protocols – Mobile IP, RADIUS, and Diameter
  • GSM/UMTS Accounting and Control Protocols – GTP-C, Radius, Diameter, and DNS
  • SIGTRAN – SCTP, M3UA, ISUP, etc.
  • IMS, SIP and SIP-T
  • IPv4 and IPv6
  • Broadcast and Multicast Services (BCMCS)
  • Wireless Application Protocols (WAP)
  • Short Message Peer-to-Peer Protocol (SMPP)
  • Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
  • Wireless Session Protocol (WSP)


• Efficiently mine wide timeframes of traffic to discover mobile sessions for specific subscribers. Filtering on mobile core network controls protocols, International Mobile Subscriber Identifier (IMSI), Network Access Identifier (NAI), Mobile Station ISDN (MSISDN), and Access Point Name (APN).


• Provides a list of subscriber session data sessions that match the subscriber and time-based filters selected in the mining console.


• Discover network inefficiencies before they lead to more substantial deterioration in network performance. Sniffer Mobile Intelligence integrates with nGenius InfiniStream to provide Expert analysis for GTP, Mobile IP and RADIUS.


• Present subscriber data sessions in a ladder diagram as a graphical depiction of specific communications. For each subscriber session total elapsed time is presented along with individual delays associated with individual messages and commands.