Solutions for LTE/4G

Tektronix Communications’ best-of-class network management, optimization and assurance products and solutions for LTE allows operators to maximize profitability while minimizing costs.

Your Challenges

LTE requires a massive financial investment, putting operators under considerable pressure to achieve aggressive revenue targets. To achieve this, operators need to ensure their LTE networks are successful from both an operational and a commercial standpoint. Achieving operational success requires overcoming key challenges presented by LTE technology, such as (1) interworking with legacy 2G, 2.5G and 3G networks and IMS (2) interoperability between new and existing equipment, between equipment provided by different LTE vendors, and between various software and firmware releases and (3) ensuring a high Quality of Service (QoS) end-to-end across all networks and services. From a commercial readiness perspective, operators need to quickly monetize the investments they’ve made in services, applications and network infrastructure. The underlying key to commercial readiness is having a deep understanding of customer needs, which are constantly changing in today’s face-paced multimedia environment.

How We Can Help

Tektronix Communications offers a complete suite of LTE products and solutions to meet the challenges of the LTE deployment cycle, beginning with the network equipment manufacturer (NEM) labs, then proceeding to the carrier labs, to field trials and finally to full network-wide deployment. Tektronix Communications products and solutions help ensure operational readiness by ensuring conformance within the LTE high-speed mobile data network; validating interoperation with other networks (3G, cdma, IMS); troubleshooting new LTE protocols and signaling flows and proactively managing traffic and subscriber growth.

Tektronix Communications suite of LTE tools enables commercial readiness by ensuring efficient integration with business support systems (BSS) and associated processes, and tracking subscriber behavior and service usage to quickly adapt to changing subscriber and usage trends by managing new revenue and service strategies. Tektronix Communications tools monitor Quality of Experience (QoE) at the group or individual subscriber level while empowering customer care to minimize escalations and to capture troubleshooting data for further analysis.

Solution in Detail

Tektronix Communications offers a suite of featured products that can help provide operational and commercial readiness for LTE high-speed mobile data networks. Tektronix Communications LTE solution covers the key areas of performance management, monitoring and diagnosis, and optimization and advanced troubleshooting.

TouchPoint provides the ability to proactively monitor and manage, in real time, the lifecycle experience of every customer that comes into contact with the business or infrastructure of a communications provider.

Iris Performance Intelligence (IPI) combines proactive network performance monitoring with in-depth real-time analysis and historical reporting to deliver the visibility needed to maintain Quality of Service and the profitability of the network

The Iris Session Analyzer (ISA) call trace tool identifies and diagnoses the specific calls and sessions that violate specified performance criteria while providing improved usability and workflow efficiencies.

Iris Traffic Analyzer (ITA) allows users to view and analyze high-speed mobile data network transport layer issues, router/firewall issues and application performance issues within their network.

Protocol Analyzer (PA) troubleshooting tool offers network engineers a composite view across mixed protocol stacks and sub-networks, supporting both real-time and historical Protocol Data Unit (PDU) investigation from a common platform.

OptiMon suite provides key mobile data performance indicators, geo-location reporting and drill down tools that enable radio access network engineering and operations to substantially reduce the cost of 3G optimization and network troubleshooting.

Network and Service Analyzer (NSA) is a suite of fully-automated network and service assurance software applications that improves the performance and efficiency of 2G test, 2.5G test, 3G troubleshooting and Long Term Evolution (LTE) troubleshooting as well as mobile network optimization.

Benefits and Capabilities

Operational readiness requires the transformation of a diverse array of brand-new components into a fully-functioning high-speed mobile data network. Advanced tools are needed to support your network planning and engineering organizations in managing this transformation. Tektronix Communications’ suite of LTE tools subjects the LTE network infrastructure to rigorous conformance and interoperability testing — both within controlled lab environments and pilot deployments. These tools validate the compatibility and configuration of new mobile broadband devices to ensure that subscribers can connect to the network from day one.

Tektronix Communications tools help manage traffic growth and network expansion by confirming interoperability between LTE and legacy networks to ensure seamless mobility and fail over availability. These tools monitor network resources deployed with high-efficiency pooling, dynamic resource allocation and non-mobile wireless offloading techniques. High speed mobile data network bottlenecks caused by retransmissions, unknown applications and device misconfiguration can be identified and resolved. Users can rapidly measure the impact of network expansions and changes.

Tektronix Communications suite of tools augments troubleshooting processes by accelerating the notification, isolation and resolution of emerging and unpredictable problems. These tools make it possible to re-engineer your troubleshooting processes and extend your toolkit with real-time intelligence that provides contextual visibility and focus to resolve the most critical issues first.

Mobile operators can utilize Tektronix Communications tools to meet accessibility, retainability and performance goals for voice, messaging and data services. Thee tools also help operators deliver throughput and latency to match Quality of Service (QoS) requirements and ensure media service QoE for VoLTE and circuit-switched fallback networks.

Tektronix Communications LTE tools help ensure commercial readiness by integrating high-speed mobile data networks efficiently and early with existing BSS and processes. These tools prevent costly silo or duplicate systems and processes and minimize exposure and risks due to delay in implementation of revenue- and security-impacting systems. Operators can develop new revenue and service strategies by maximizing the profitability of direct pricing and third-party opportunities.

Tektronix Communications LTE tools strengthen customer care organizations and overall subscriber satisfaction. Detailed, efficient data sharing can speed resolution and communications with other staff to reduce the MTTR. Operators can track subscriber behavior and service usage to gain intelligence that can be crucial when adapting to unpredictable and rapidly changing conditions in mobile broadband networks. Operators can monitor the quality of experience at individual and subscriber group levels.

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