Mobile Network Connectivity Probe for HP BAC and HP SiteScope from ADVENAGE

Mobile Network Connectivity Probe (MNC Probe) has been designed to supply mobile network operators, service providers and MVNOs with a highly functional and reliable tool to monitor and analyze basic network quality and performance parameters from an end-users point-of-view for mobile data services in GSM and UMTS/HSDPA networks..

It turned out to be our customers Swiss Army Knife for radio network parameter optimization, network service quality reporting, KPI and SLA reporting towards corporate customers, and competitor analysis. The unique probe architecture design ensures best-in-class reliability and performance.

Mobile Network Connectivity Probe (MNC Probe) extends HP Business Availability Center or HP SiteScope with testing and monitoring capabilities for basic cellular network quality parameters regarding data services. MNC Probe simulates radio network attach, data service setup and IP target service testing from an end-users perspective and delivers detailed performance data to HP SiteScope or HP BAC. MNC Probe integrates seamlessly with HP BAC / HP SiteScope, and with other HP Business Service Management products.

As a probe plugin for HP BAC or HP OpenView Internet Services, MNC Probe enables mobile network operators, service providers and MVNOs to run basic radio network parameter monitoring using an industry standard performance management system. This avoids expenditures by running separate OSS systems or integrating non-standard systems into their performance management environments.

MNC Probe comes as a full service package including consulting, installation, support and software maintenance.

MNC Probe Features:

• Reports radio network attach times & radio network signal strength
• Documents cell-id and other environmental data
• GPRS, CSD and UMTS Bearer support
• Data service availability and setup times
• Support for IP application protocols ICMP-PING, UDP-PING, TCP-CONNECT, HTTP-GET, FTP-GET, WAP-GET
• Calculation of individual and average target response times
• Implementation of different reporting policies
• includes WSP and WBXML decoding for WAP
• supports WAP 1.x and WAP 2.x

Mobile Network Connectivity Probe gathers availability and performance data by periodically attaching to the radio network, setting up a data session/context and sending and receiving data using core TCP/IP protocols like ICMP ping, UDP ping and TCP connection setup. In addition it supports FTP file retrieval, HTTP get operations and WAP get operations.

Network attach time, IP context setup times, and (transaction-) round trip times are measured &ersand; logged to BAC or SiS along with other data concerning time-stamps, transfer rate and availability status. For HTTP and WAP protocol based status codes are used to validate results. Supported bearer services include GSM/CSD, GSM/GPRS and UMTS/HSDPA.

MNC Probe Key-Facts:

• Supported Systems:
• Windows 2000 Pro, 2000 Server, XP Pro, 2003 Server and Linux
• HP SiteScope and HP BAC (including HP Business Process Monitor)
• HP Network Node Manager (SNMP)
• GPRS/UMTS modems such as Cinterion/Siemens module based modems (including HC25 for HSDPA), a number of traditional mobile phones plus a number of specialized UMTS modems.
• Current Version:
• V 2.6.10, released on February 12th 2010
• Contact:
• per E-Mail

Further information on MNC Probe:

We would be pleased to supply you with further information, a copy of MNC Probe and a test license to test MNC Probe for 30 days. Please contact the ADVENAGE sales department directly via E-Mail.

Last update: Tue, 16 Feb 2010