As broadband technologies continue to evolve, service providers strive to provide faster and more reliable service to a growing customer base. Successful broadband deployments and expansions depend on the ability to quickly test and troubleshoot the access network, between the end-customer sites and the network operations center (NOC).
For more than a decade service providers and equipment manufacturers have been utilizing TraceSpan's powerful non-intrusive tools to get on top of their access networks and cut significant time from development, deployment, troubleshooting and interoperability testing.
TraceSpan's Xpert analyzers provide full visibility into all protocol layers of access networks in every major broadband technology: Wireless (LTE Advanced), Fiber (GPON, NG-PON), Copper (xDSL and G.fast) and Cable (DOCSIS). The analyzers capture and analyze the signals passively without affecting data transfer on the lines and without using any commercial broadband chipset, making them fully independent and unbiased.
Operators' lab engineers and equipment developers use the Xpert analyzers to identify, verify and solve the most complex issues in their access networks:
Multi-layer probing - detailed information of the physical layer, MAC layer and upper layer messages of upstream and downstream data.
Comprehensive reporting - intuitive filtered displays of network elements status, parsed messages, errors, alerts and performance graphs.
Real time analysis - continues mode with advanced triggering to track specific patterns and intermittent issues.Standard-compliance verification of network elements.
In today's highly competitive landscape, quickly identifying and solving complex day-to-day issues in the access network is a fundamental capability for telecom operators in ensuring their end customers are experiencing a great service. Often such capability involves dispatch of technical staff to end customer sites and local aggregation points, requiring adequate tools for efficient and accurate troubleshooting in the field.
TraceSpan delivers the "eyes and ears" for field engineering and support teams with advanced portable solutions specifically built to speed up on-site troubleshooting. Designed for field deployments, TraceSpan handheld analyzers provide a rich variety of real time indications in convenient textual and graphical formats. From data rates and power levels to transmission errors and service interruptions, our compact battery-powered devices provide automatic correlation of the measured parameters with typical problems and their root causes.
In many countries Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) such as local or state police and federal security agencies have a legally sanctioned power to access private communications of individuals or organizations in the agency's jurisdiction, for the purpose of preventing crime and terrorism.
TraceSpan's Phantom™ lawful interception systems provide non-intrusive monitoring for LEAs looking to capture the data from the access network between the service provider's site and the target individual or organization's premises. The systems are completely non-intrusive and enable information collection without detection and generating files that can be used as clear evidence of the tapped information.
The Phantom systems can be installed at virtually any location (e.g. central office, communication room, basement or street), while the data can be monitored either locally or remotely. They can be used as stand-alone units or in conjunction with other lawful interception systems.
Provide GPON Tracer and GPON Xpert optical communication protocol analysis and testing equipment;
Provide NG-PON protocol analysis and testing equipment NG-PON Xpert for next-generation optical communication (10G to 40G); Support XG-PON, XGS-PON, 10G-EPON, NG-PON 2, 50G-PON;
Provide traditional broadband communication analysis and testing equipment VDSL Xpert; DSL Xpert;
Provide G.fast Analyzer, a broadband communication analysis and testing equipment for converting optical to copper cables;
Provide DOCSIS 3.0 protocol testing and analysis equipment D-Cable Xpert;
Provide LTE Advanced protocol analysis and testing equipment LTE Advanced Xpert;
Provide GPON Phantom, a device for lawful interception, monitoring, and collection of broadband communication; VDSL Phantom; DSL Phantom；
Provide various testing solutions for network communication broadband equipment
| Table 1: Comparison Table of GPON Testing Instruments | ||||
| Device Model | Support packet capture | Support protocol parsing | Support OLT simulation | Main Features |
| GPON Xpert | √ | √ | √ | Support GPON packet capture, real-time or non real time parsing protocols, support upper layer network protocol parsing, support verification testing, support simulating OLT to test ONU BBF-247 protocol compliance, support custom OLT to test ONU, support playback based on packet capture, configure specific ONT models based on logs, and other functions |
| GPON Tracer | √ | × | × | Supports GPON packet capture, basic testing and measurement of ONU, and can export logs for GPON Xpert or Xpert Lite to parse Ploam, OMCI, and other functions |
| GPON Xpert Lite | × | √ | × | Support GPON protocol parsing, Ploam parsing, OMCI parsing, upper layer protocol parsing, and verification testing |
| Table 2: Comparison Table of NG-PON Testing Instruments | |||||
| Device Model | Support packet capture | Support protocol parsing | Support OLT simulation | Support ONU simulation | Main Features |
| NG-PON Xpert | XG-PON XGS-PON 10G-EPON 50G-PON | XG-PON XGS-PON 10G-EPON 50G-PON | XG-PON XGS-PON 10G-EPON 50G-PON | XG-PON XGS-PON 10G-EPON 50G-PON | Support packet capture, real-time or non real time parsing protocols, support upper layer network protocol parsing, support verification testing, support simulating OLT to test ONU BBF-247 protocol compliance, support custom OLT to test ONU, support playback based on packet capture, configure specific ONT models based on logs, and other functions |
| 10G-EPON Xpert | 10G-EPON | 10G-EPON | 10G-EPON | 10G-EPON | Supports 10G-EPON packet capture, basic testing and measurement of ONU, and can export logs for 10G-EPON Xpert or Xpert Lite to parse Ploam, OMCI, and other functions |
| NG-PON Tracer | √ | × | × | × | Supports packet capture, basic testing and measurement of ONU, and can export logs for NG-PON Xpert or Xpert Lite to parse Ploam, OMCI, and other functions |
| NG-PON Xpert Lite | × | √ | × | × | Support protocol parsing, Ploam parsing, OMCI parsing, upper layer protocol parsing, and verification testing |
