PacketScan™ – Real-Time Network Traffic Monitoring and Analysis

PacketScan™ is a powerful, carrier-grade network monitoring and analysis solution designed for telecom service providers, equipment manufacturers, VoIP operators, and mission-critical communication environments. PacketScan™ offers scalable, continuous, and protocol-rich monitoring across next-generation and legacy networks.

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Overview

With most carriers rolling out multi-services, including voice, video, fax, and data transported via packet networks, there is need for constant testing and monitoring of Quality of Service (QoS) and Network Performance of Next Generation Networks (NGN).

GL's PacketScan™ - an All-IP Network Monitoring software offers powerful features to capture and monitor live signaling and traffic over IP (IPv4 & IPv6). The application efficiently decodes, segregates, and troubleshoots network issues across VoIP and wireless protocols, supporting diverse traffic types over IP networks.

The PacketScan™ is available in the following variants -

PacketScan™ Real-time Network Monitoring software
PacketScan™ HD (High Density) Network Monitoring Appliance w/ 4x1GigE, 2x10GigE , 2x40/100GigE – includes Online PacketScan™ for temporary audio codec support

GL’s PacketScan™ HD is a high-density, multi-protocol 2U rack-mounted network monitoring appliance designed to capture and process IP packets on high-speed Ethernet links, supporting both 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps links.

Packet Data Analysis (PDA) is an outstanding tool for live monitoring of signaling and traffic over IP. Packet Data Analysis (PDA) is distributed with GL’s Packet Analyzers, allowing users to monitor live IP networks including capture, analysis, and reporting of every call in detail. Supported protocols include SIP, MSRP, MEGACO, MGCP, H.323, SCCP, RANAP (UMTS IuCS), GSM A, CAMEL, BICC, ISUP, MAP, Gb, and GTP. It can capture IP packets over different transmission lines, including IP, T1, E1, T3, E3, and OC-3 STM-1 / OC-12 STM-4. PDA then processes the captured packets, identifies, and segregates calls based on signaling and traffic parameters.

Key Features

End-to-End Visibility Across Multi-Generation Networks

PacketScan™ provides unmatched network intelligence by seamlessly correlating signaling and media flows across multiple nodes and interfaces. This delivers a comprehensive, subscriber-centric view of each session—from initiation through termination.

Unified Multi-Technology Monitoring
Monitor signaling across a broad range of technologies, including 5G (N1/N2, N3, N4, N11–N13), 4G (S1AP, eGTP, Diameter), IMS (SIP), 3G (IuCS, IuPS), 2G (GSM A, Gb), and SIGTRAN (ISUP, MAP, BICC, CAMEL). Generate intuitive call-flow diagrams that visualize the complete subscriber journey across these technologies
Encrypted Control Plane Visibility
Decrypt 5G and 4G NAS signaling on monitored interfaces to eliminate blind spots in encrypted control planes
Automated CDRs and Centralized KPI Analytics
Automatically generate structured Call Detail Records (CDRs) for each session. These can be fed into NetSurveyorWeb™ to create enterprise-wide dashboards, perform historical trend analysis, enable root-cause filtering, and deliver cross-network KPI reporting
PCAP Export for Forensic Analysis
Extract complete signaling sessions into standard PCAP files for offline troubleshooting, vendor escalation, or compliance archiving. With PacketScan™, operators gain true, end-to-end visibility into subscriber sessions—enabling proactive monitoring, faster troubleshooting, and reliable performance assurance across all network generations

High-Performance Continuous Capture

Continuous real-time capture and decoding without interruption
Handles very large trace files, up to terabyte sizes, ensuring scalability for long-term monitoring
Designed for 24/7 operations in live carrier networks and enterprise environments
Simultaneous monitoring of up to 30,000 calls, scalable beyond 50,000 calls. (PacketScan™ HD)

Advanced Voice & Media Analysis

In-depth VoIP call monitoring including call flow, call quality, and failure reasons
Support for a wide range of audio codecs: AMR, AMR-WB, EVRC, EVRCB, EVRCC, EVS, OPUS, and more. Option to record and playback the voice
Real-time computation of voice quality metrics such as:MOS (Mean Opinion Score), R-Factor, Jitter, Delay, and Packet Loss
MOS is periodically calculated during the call to highlight Good, Average, or Poor quality calls
Extract fax images from T.38 sessions

Intelligent Event Triggers and Automated Actions

Automatically detect and act on events of interest:
Send email alerts, Save call trace or call detail records (CDR) in CSV, Record calls selectively
Apply conditions such as whitelisted numbers, failed calls, degraded MOS, or specific QoS issues to capture only relevant traffic

Rich Visualization & Reporting

Graphical statistics on live traffic including:
Call volumes and KPIs,Call flows and success/failure rates, Voice quality graphs (jitter, delay, MOS, R-Factor)
Intuitive dashboards for real-time monitoring and post-capture analytics

Web-Based Multi-Instance Remote Control

PacketScan™ is also available as a web-based monitoring solution.

Supports running multiple instances simultaneously across different network interfaces or locations
Each instance can be remotely invoked, managed, and monitored using a lightweight web client
Provides operators with centralized access to captures, analysis, and statistics without requiring physical access to the system
Ideal for distributed deployments, enabling NOC teams, field engineers, and remote users to collaborate on live monitoring and troubleshooting

Deep Packet Inspection

Protocol distribution statistics – visualize traffic breakdown by protocol type (e.g., IP,UDP,TCP,HTTP, FTP, DNS, SIP, RTP, GTP, etc.)
IP endpoint transactions, throughput and bandwidth utilization
TCP connection analytics – open, closed, and orphan connections for IPv4/IPv6
Enables operators to detect anomalies, optimize bandwidth usage, and validate service-level performance across live or recorded traffic

Air Traffic Management (ATM)

Monitor Air-to-Ground, Ground-to-Ground and Recorder communications
Analyze Push-to-Talk and Squelch sessions for reliability and QoS
Supports RTP header extension decoding and R2S Keep Alive monitoring per ED-137 specifications

High-Density Hardware Appliances

High-speed wirespeed packet capture and lossless recording, supporting up to 800 Gbps across multiple Ethernet interfaces with nanosecond time precision.
It supports Ethernet interfaces across 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G, 100G, 200G and importantly, the latest 400G Ethernet interfaces for ultra-high-speed network traffic capture
Optimized distributed disk operations with massive storage capacity (up to 240 TB NVMe SSDs) for reliable, continuous high-volume traffic recording
Flexible hardware-based filters with stackable logic, enabling deep inspection and selection of traffic by protocol, packet type, or header fields at wirespeed
Real-time capture statistics and multi-port monitoring, providing detailed reports on bandwidth usage, frame counts, errors, link status, and packet drops for each interface
Advanced and selective protocol traffic extraction and slicing, with secure export to standard formats (PCAP, PCAPNG, HDL), compatible with analysis tools like Wireshark and GL’s PacketScan™

Use Cases Across Industries

Telecom Service Providers & Operators

Monitor 5G, 4G, IMS, 3G and 2G subscriber activity in real time
5G/4G NAS decryption when security parameters are available
Track call drops, registration failures, and mobility/roaming events
Assure QoS (Quality of Service) parameters for voice, video, and data services
Support billing verification and regulatory compliance

Equipment Vendors & Network OEMs

Validate and troubleshoot core and access network elements (e.g., gNodeB, eNodeB, IMS, EPC, 5GC)
Perform interoperability testing between multi-vendor systems
Analyze protocol behavior and signaling correctness during lab trials or field deployments

VoIP & Unified Communications Providers

Monitor SIP/RTP-based voice and video calls for quality, performance, and failures
Ensure voice quality (MOS, jitter, delay, packet loss) meets SLAs
Extract call statistics, audio streams, and fax images (T.38) for troubleshooting
Optimize QoS and QoE in enterprise VoIP networks

Data Center Monitoring and Field Deployments

Data Center Monitoring for troubleshooting, performance analysis, and forensic investigation of high-speed Ethernet traffic
Field Deployments providing portable packet capture for live events, service provider installations, and rapid network troubleshooting

Enterprises & Mission-Critical Networks

Monitor corporate IP traffic (protocol distribution, data rates, endpoint interactions)
Detect anomalies and performance degradation across TCP/IP services
Centralized monitoring via web-based multi-instance remote access

Air Traffic Management (ATM) & Defense Communications

Monitor Air-to-Ground, Ground-to-Ground and Recorder communications
Analyze Push-to-Talk and Squelch sessions for reliability and QoS

Regulatory & Lawful Interception Agencies

Provide end-to-end subscriber/session visibility across multiple technologies
Enable detailed call-flow reconstruction with voice playback and recording for captured sessions. Concatenated SMS content extraction and unicode SMS decode
Store terabyte-scale trace data securely for compliance, audits, and investigations

PacketScan™ : Applications

Explore enhanced 5G Network Monitoring with GL's PacketScan™ 5G protocol analyzer. It efficiently captures, segregates, monitors, and gathers statistics for all calls conducted across N1N2, N4, N8, N10, N11, N12 and N13 interfaces within the 5G network. Elevate your network analysis capabilities with the optional PacketScan™ 5G Protocol Analyzer module.

GL's LTE Protocol Analyzer captures and monitors real-time signaling and traffic on LTE networks. The application segregates, monitors and collects statistics on all calls and can test eNodeB or UE over various interfaces, including S1, S3, S4, S5 (or S8), S6a, S10, S11, S13, and X2.

GL’s TCP Analytics application analyzes TCP connections between both internal Local Area Network (LAN) and external Wide Area Network (WAN) computers including servers and clients. The application helps troubleshoot large bandwidth consumption, failed TCP sessions, packet loss, poor TCP throughput and more. TCP Analytics is an optional application with PacketScan™.

Supports decoding of almost all industry standard signaling protocols – See Protocol List for more details.

5G - N1N2, N4, N8, N10, N11, N12 and N13
Supports decoding of eCPRI protocol
4G LTE, IMS-SIP, Diameter
3G UMTS IuCs and IuPs
2G/2.5G GSM A, Abis, GPRS Gb and Gn over IP
VoIP SIP, SIP-I, SIP-T, MSRP, H.323, MEGACO, MGCP, Skinny (SCCP)
SIGTRAN – SS7, ISDN
Fax T.38 and Video calls
ED-137/ED-138

Monitors QoS (quality of service) on voice and video calls
All traffic supported – Digits, Tones, Voice, Video, Fax Live monitoring IPv4 and IPv6 networks

Listen audio data of a session in real-time
Perform power, frequency, spectral, tone and digit analysis
Monitor / record audio data of a session to files (QuickTime *.qt format)
Video Statistics provides a measure of Video Call Quality in IP networks; these include Media Type, SSRC, Packet Statistics, Average Delay/Gap, Video Frame count, Frame rate, Media Delivery Index (MDI- (Delay Factor: Media Loss Rate)), and Average MDI for each session

SIP ED-137/ED-138 for Air Traffic Monitoring (Air-to-Ground, Ground-to-Ground calls, and Record interface)
Capture and monitor live signaling and MSRP traffic over IP interface
Segregates, captures, and collects statistics on VoIP and Wireless calls
Permits analysis of adherence to protocol standards for the system under test or observation
Provides graphical presentation of analysis including ladder diagrams of protocols
Operating System - Windows® 10 & above; Linux (Red Hat and Ubuntu)

Thousands of calls can be monitored in real-time including detailed analysis of selected voice band streams. Applications include testing of IP phones, Gateways, IP Routers and Switches, and Proxies.

Detailed call statistics such as packet loss, gap, jitter, delay, RTP performance statistics, R-factor & MOS scores, and unparalleled voice band statistics can be monitored simultaneously. Sophisticated filters permit zooming and recording of specific calls of interest.

What sets apart PacketScan™ is its ability to collect vital statistics about calls for theoretically infinite time. The ability of PacketScan™ to capture data is limited only by the hard disk capacity of the PC. It can work with NetSurveyorWeb™ and NetSurveyorWeb™ Lite, a web-based central monitoring system for a comprehensive view of network performance. It features rich graphics, ladder diagrams and CDRs (Call Detail Records). NetSurveyorWeb™ is an easy plug-and-play system that collects data, segregates, and provides comprehensive analysis of network health, detailed protocol monitoring with historical data retention.

Main Features

Capacity	PacketScan™ can monitor up to 2000 simultaneous calls with bidirectional RTP traffic PacketScan™ HD can monitor 20000 simultaneous calls with bidirectional RTP traffic from 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps link rates. Up to 50000 calls can be achieved by scaling with higher configurations Circular buffer with capture and view filters Monitor networks for long time periods spanning weeks or months at a time Users can deploy multiple PacketScan™ HD systems throughout a network and send data to a centralized database for complete network visibility Decrypt and analyze Voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE) calls over Internet secured Protocol Security (IPsec) connection Provides VoNR call statistics such as caller, callee, MOS scores, discarded packets and voice storage
Real-time and Offline Analysis Screen Shot of Real-time Analysis	Capture and analyze packets at wirespeed. Save the captured trace to a disk Analyze in real-time or analyze recorded trace files off-line Export captured files in CSV or ASCII file format All or filtered traffic can be recorded into a trace file Options to control the saving of trace file - user-defined prefixes, trace file with date-time prefixes, slider control to indicate the total number of files, file size, frame count, or time limit Basic view comprises of – Summary, Detail, and Hex Dump view Any field from the protocol headers can be added to Summary view, i.e, user-configurable summary fields User can select a frame in Summary View to analyze and decode each frame in the Detail View. Options provided to hide/display, and copy content to clip board The Hex dump view displays the frame information in HEX and ASCII octet dump format Ability to export data to a comma delimited file for subsequent importing into a database or spreadsheet
Call Detail Records Screen Shot of Call Detail Record and Statistics View	Calls and sessions are classified as active, completed or failed giving the user an idea about the calls and its status in the network View call specific information such as duration of the completed call, source & destination addresses, type of call, release cause, conference id, call identifier and more Option to search for a particular call detail record from the captured traces PacketScan™ can work with GL’s VoiceBand Analyzer (VBA) and Call Data Records (CDR) applications to provide useful call detail records. These records can be investigated for bad calls using custom Excel® addins Ability to export completed calls summary report of PDA in CSV file format, and analyze using custom Excel® addins
Statistics	Aggregate statistics can be obtained for any field or parameter in the protocol headers to study the performance of the overall VoIP network Provides frame count, byte count, frames/sec, and bytes/sec etc of any of the protocol fields
Supported Protocols	SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) RFC 3261- MAC, IP, IPv6, UDP, TCP, SMPP SIP ED-137 for Air Traffic Monitoring (Ground-to-Air, and Ground-to-Ground) SIP-I, SIP-T N1N2, N4, N8, N10, N11, N12 and N13 Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) - RFC 4975 SCTP and Tunnel Filtering Megaco- RFC 3525, RFC 3015 MGCP – RFC 3991 H.323/H.225 RTP - RFC 3550, RTCP, T.38 and Video SS7 SIGTRAN – SS7 over IP (ISUP, MAP, CAP, TCAP, INAP, CNAM, CAMEL) SIGTRAN ISDN over IP - Q.931, DASS2 and DPNSS over DUA (ISDN Q.921-User Adaptation Layer) GSMA over IP - BSSAP+, BSSMAP, CC, MM, RR, GCC, BCC, SMS GSM Abis over IP - BTSM, CC, MM, RR, GCC, BCC, SMS GPRS - GPRS-Gb interface (BSSGP, LLC, SNDCP, GMM, SMG) GPRS – GPRS-Gn interface (GTPv2, GTP-IP, GTP-TCP, GTP-UDP) T.38 Fax and Video calls UMTS IuCS and IuPS over IP - RANAP, RNSAP, NBAP, CC, MM, RR LTE - S1AP, X2AP, NAS, eGTP Diameter – S6a, S6d, Cx, Dx, Zn, Zh, Wx, Gq, Gy, Sh, Dh, Gx, Rf, RO, Wg, Wm, Pr, Wa, Wd, Rx interfaces Skinny Call Control Protocol (SCCP) PacketScan™ supported Protocols
Supported Codecs	Almost all industry standard codecs supported. For more information, please see "Voice Codec" webpage.
As a stand-alone tool	Capture calls in real-time for infinite time In-depth real-time and post-process data investigation using Packet Data Analysis feature Monitor adherence to protocol standards and report Flexibility to add any protocol field to the summary view, filtering, and search features Analyze with rich graphics, ladder diagrams, call trace Complex Filtering and Search capabilities to record all or filtered traffic into a trace file Option to create multiple aggregate column groups and prioritize the groups as per the requirement to display the summary results efficiently Consolidated interface allows access to all the important settings, and auto-startup actions; all the configurations done in any of these options can be saved to a file, and later loaded back to perform automated and repeated testing Ability to connect to a central database for remote monitoring. The database may be accessed through a web browser for convenient viewing and analysis
As a Probe with Central Monitoring System - NetSurveyorWeb™	PacketScan™ can send protocol fields, and call detail records, along with traffic summary of captured calls to a central database. NetSurveyorWeb™ displays the data from the database in a simple web-based browser, featuring rich graphics, custom search, report and filter configurations.
As a Single Point Packet over IP CDR Analysis System	PacketScan™ HD can work with GL’s VoiceBand Analyzer and Call Detail Records applications to generate call detail records as CSV files and voice files for each direction. The call detail records are used for further analysis using built-in Excel® tools.
Filtering and Search Screen Shot of Real-time Capture filter Screen Shot of Offline View Filter	Filtering and search capabilities add a powerful dimension to the SIP analyzer Allows the user to automatically create search/filter criteria from the current screen selection Analyze frames of interest, user can select real-time capture filters which also includes protocol filter Isolate required frames from original frames in real-time/offline Set filters on Data Link layer, MAC layer, IP, TCP/UDP and more Any protocol field can be added to the filtering, and search features providing users more flexibility to monitor required protocol fields The offline filter allows filtering based on frame number, time, length, message types, etc User can create their own filters using custom filter option which provides flexibility to the user to check the fields and use the logical conditions more efficiently
Packet Data Analysis	SIP, MSRP, RTP, H.323, MEGACO, MGCP, GSMA, IuCS, and Skinny (SCCP) protocols supported RTP packet statistics for each direction of a call Full RTP Analysis with audio capture/playback supported for all common codecs Supports decoding of AMR and AMR_WB codec with IuUP Header Supports decoding of Voice over LTE A host of counters gives the user an instantaneous snapshot of the VoIP traffic on the network Graphical representation of statistics including ladder diagrams of VoIP calls Save calls in HDL, PCAP, or PCAPNG file format for further analysis Ability to export PDA summary and detail reports of selected or all calls in PDF file format. Ability to export completed calls summary report of PDA in CSV file format, and analyze using custom Excel® addins The RTCP-XR (Real-time Transport Control Protocol Extended header) VoIP Metrics Report Block 7 provides the information about the voice quality (i.e MOS score) of the opposite traffic channel Provides a complete call flow of a 5G session Filter Call Detail Records (CDR) based on parameters such as caller, time, message count, etc. Generates VoIP Key Performance Indicators (KPI) Reports: Call Success Ratio, Calls Per Second, Post Dial Delay, Error Code Distribution, Answer Seizure Ratio, and Call Duration Export KPI Report in PDF Format Generates alert summary when particular vital parameters go beyond a specified value
Performance Metrics	Signaling, audio, and video QoS parameters for each call T.38 Analysis - The application has the call graph and T.38 ladder diagram display. User can decode T.38 frames received over VoIP calls and can have ladder diagram for T.38 traffic flow, reassemble the fragmented data and to identify the T.30 message from it Displays a summary of signaling, audio, and video parameters such as Source/Destination Video Channels, Media Type, SSRC, Average Delay/Gap, Packet Counts, Media Delivery Index and Frame Rate for all video calls Minimum, maximum and average round trip delay Inband (DTMF & MF) events, Outband events as per RFC 2833 or RFC 4733 events, RFC 2833 events, RTP/RTCP packet count and reports per direction
QOS Parameters	E-model (G.107) based MOS/R-Factor scores Media Delivery Index (Delay Factor: Media Loss Rate) for video calls H.263, H.264 codec support Measure jitter, delay and gap for audio and video traffic
Triggers and Actions	Trigger intelligent actions based on signaling and traffic conditions Filter incoming packets based on occurrences of particular signaling or traffic parameters followed by a set of actions for the completed calls
Traffic (Digits, Audio, Video, Fax) Handling	Segregation of IP traffic, VoIP, and Fax calls Filters based on WhiteList Calls, Criteria based Voice/Trace Recording All traffic supported – Digits, Tones, Voice, Video, Fax Capture Fax calls and extract fax images in TIFF format Audio capture/playback - Listen and Record RTP (Audio) streams
SIP Registration Details	Registration statistics and trace messages depicted graphically Provides the registration summary of each SIP registration including the user agent, registrar, status, registered time, expiry time, time to live, remaining time, and Registration Request Delay (RRD) Creates SIP Registration KPI Reports: Register messages per sessions, Registrar(s) distribution, Registration(s) Vs Deregistration(s) Over Time, Error code distribution
Utilities	Provides HDL File Conversion Launcher to convert Ethereal format file (.PCAP, .CAP, and .PCAPNG) to GL's file format (.HDL) and vice-versa Includes Excel® Addins to import CDRs into Excel® to analyze using Pivot Table, and Pivot Charts

PacketScan™ software can be easily integrated with any type of PC platforms, including regular laptops, portable handhelds, and 1U rackmounts.,

Following variants of PacketScan™ are available:

As a Stand Alone Tool for Real-Time Analysis (PacketScan™)
As an Offline Analysis Tool (PacketScan™)
High-Density Packet Monitoring Tool (PacketScan™ HD)
PacketScan™ HD is an high density multi-protocol 2U rack mounted network monitoring appliance w/ 4x1GigE (PKV120) and w/2x10GigE (PKV122) to capture and process high volumes of communication protocols over IP and Wireless

For more information please visit "High-Density Packet Monitoring Tool" webpage.
ATM Network Quality Monitoring Tools per ED-138
GL's PacketScan™ - an All-IP Network Monitoring software offers powerful features to capture and monitor live signaling and traffic over IP. It captures, decodes, segregates, monitors and collects statistics on all IP calls, as per EUROCAE ED-138. Ease of viewing Ground-to-Ground calls and Air-to-Ground sessions is possible

As a Probe with Central Monitoring System (NetSurveyorWeb™)
PacketScan™ can be deployed as a centralized monitoring system with associated relational or Oracle database. PacketScan™ can send Summary Fields, Frame Octets, and Call Detail Records to database along with Traffic Summary for the captured calls

For more information please visit "NetSurveyorWeb™ Live Demo" webpage.
As a Probe with simplified web-based Monitoring system (NetSurveyorWeb™ Lite)
PacketScan™ can be integrated with NetSurveyorWeb™ Lite version, which is a simple web-based client and works at the probe level, as an addon tool to enhance the features of protocol analyzers enhancing the capability to handle larger volume of data, filter for specific calls, build custom statistics and KPIs, automate and graphical analysis features to analyze the call detail records (CDRs) in depth. It is an easy plug-and-play system that collects data, segregates, and provides comprehensive analysis of network health, detailed protocol monitoring with historical data retention up to 9 GB

Detailed Packet Analysis

Packet Data Analysis (PDA) is an outstanding tool for live monitoring of signaling and traffic over IP. Packet Data Analysis (PDA) is distributed with GL’s Packet Analyzers, allowing users to monitor live IP networks including capture, analysis, and reporting of every call in detail. Supported protocols include SIP, MEGACO, MGCP, H.323, SCCP, RANAP (UMTS IuCS), GSM A, CAMEL, BICC, ISUP, MAP, Gb, and GTP. It can capture IP packets over different transmission lines, including IP, T1, E1, T3, E3, and OC-3 STM-1 / OC-12 STM-4. PDA then processes the captured packets, identifies, and segregates calls based on signaling and traffic parameters.

PacketScan™ provides in-depth real-time and post-process data investigation. The PDA view assists in any comparisons that are to be made between the two RTP sessions. Packet Data Analysis (PDA) view displays call information in graphical format (Traffic Analyzer Call Quality Matrix- Summary View) as well as in tabular format (RTP Diagnostic - Detail View).

Graphs

Graphs are provided for key statistics for network monitoring and troubleshooting. Graphs available include – Active Calls, Average Jitter, E-Model MOS/R-Factor/Packets Discarded, RTP Packets Summary, ladder diagram for T.38 based fax calls and call signaling, Gap, Jitter, Gap/Jitter Distribution, Wave and Spectral Display for media stream analysis, VoIP calls and more.

5G N1N2 Call Graph

5G N4 Call Graph

5G N8 Call Graph

5G N10 Call Graph

5G N11 Call Graph

5G N12 Call Graph

5G N13 Call Graph

Active Calls Graph

Average Jitter Distribution Graph

Call Graph

MEGACO Call Graph

SIP ED-137 Call Graph

H.323 Call Graph

GSM A IP Call Graph

UMTS IuCs Call Graph

RTCP Details Screen

Gap Graph

Jitter Graph

Gap Distribution Graph

Jitter Distribution Graph

Full Duplex Wave Graph

CDR Report Generation

PacketScan™ can generate PDF reports summarizing all calls or a certain subset of the calls captured. The PDA Summary View can also export all terminated call details as a text file (CSV format) during the live capture. This feature requires activating the Export Terminated Calls option from PDA prior to live capturing. This structured text file can be imported into Excel® using a custom add-in (Excel-Dashboard-Tool-IP.xlsm) to generate different chart types such as call volumes, call duration, call failure causes, CMOS, LMOS, packet loss and more.

For more details, refer CDR Analysis Tools webpage.

PDA Completed Calls Report in CSV

PDA Summary PDF Report

Performance Metrics

Call Summary displays signaling, audio, and video QoS parameters for each call.

Signaling parameters include Caller & Callee id information, call duration, session information (Establishment Ratio, Establishment Effective Ratio, Session Defects, Ineffective Session Attempts, Completion Ratio, Request delay, Post Pickup Delay), and so on.

Audio parameters include media type, packet count, jitter, delay, gap, MOS, R-factor, lost packets, and so on.

Video QoS parameters such as Video Channels, Codec Info, SSRC, Frame Count, Packet Count, Packets Lost, Frame Rate, Media Delivery Index (Delay Factor : Media Loss Rate), Average Media Delivery Index are calculated for all video calls
Detailed statistical information are provided for Inband (DTMF & MF )events, RFC 2833 events, RTP/RTCP packet count and reports per direction, Duplicate and Missing Packets

Call Summary - Signaling, Audio, and Video Parameters

Inband Events Screen

RTP Events Screen

RTP and RTCP Statistics

Calculates minimum, maximum, and average Round Trip Delay (RTD) values for SIP calls
Call Quality Of Service (QoS) for all calls with E-Model based (G.107) Mean Opinion Score (MOS) and R-factor with individual and summary statistics presented in graphical and tabular formats

E-Model Graph - R Factor, MOS,
Packet discarded graphs in PDA Summary View

RTP Packets Graph

MOS Graph

Degradation Factors

Quality Metrics

Burst Metrics

Jitter Buffer Statistics

User can get real-time call trace for SIP Sessions and on H225 calls

Triggers and Action Feature

Supports triggers and action feature to further filter calls based on certain protocol parameters followed by a set of actions for the completed calls. Some of such parameters are MOS, R-factor, jitter, packet loss, duplicate packets, or called / calling numbers
The actions include saving a call to a file, recording the audio to a file, sending an email, generating an alert summary, creating Call Detail Records, viewing custom calls in summary view, and extracting fax images from the captured calls in TIFF format
Users can specify the file formats of calls as *.hdl, *.pcap, *.pcapng, and/or *.wav format. Call Detail Record outputs 3 CSV files, call master record, call side record, and call events record, along with the voice file recordings for each direction. These files can be used with GL's Voice Band Analyzer, and Call Data Records for further analysis and retrieval of calls of interest

Triggers and Action Settings

Alert Summary - Generates alerts when particular vital parameters go beyond a specified value. The Alert Summary provides an active list of the alerts that have occurred during the test session

Alert Summary View

Traffic Handling Features (Fax, Digits)

T.38 fax calls

PacketScan™ software supports capturing and decoding of Fax (T.38 data) calls over VoIP. PacketScan™ fax decodes can be viewed in the form of T.38 call graph and call summary with decoded information for all T.38 messages received on the call. The captured fax calls by PacketScan™ can also be analyzed using GLInsight™ by saving the fax calls directly in (*.PCAP) Ethereal file format. T.38 has been enhanced to reassemble the fragmented data and to identify the T.30 message from it. Identified T.30 message is displayed in the T.38 ladder diagram.

PacketScan™ also allows users to extract fax image in the TIFF format from the selected fax call in either GL's proprietary *.HDL file format or in Ethereal *.PCAP file format.

T.38 Analysis over IP

Extract Fax Image

Real-Time Digit Capturing

PacketScan™ provides a means for digit examination and capturing. An easy-to-read window indicates the direction of the captured digits along with the duration, power and frequencies. DTMF, MF and User-defined digits/tones are fully supported.

Real-Time Digit Capturing Window

Audio Handling Features

Play to Speaker

Play To Speaker application allows the user to play the RTP streams of a call to the PC speaker using a soundcard. A host of options such as Jitter Buffer settings, As Is, Audio Mixing and so on are available for users to play a live call in real-time or play captured voice files.

Play Jitter Options

Write To File

Various options are provided to save captured calls and use the files with voice quality analysis software to calculate the mean opinion score of the call. This application writes the RTP stream to a file in *.wav format.

Write to File

Save Call

Supports Save Call feature to save successful and failed calls in either in GL’s proprietary *.HDL file format, Ethereal *.PCAP file format, or *.PCAPNG file format. Call Summary details could also be saved for a particular call and this will be saved as a *.rtf file. This allows the users to get data from real-time traffic locations for detailed analysis of a flawed call.

Save Call

Video Quality Metrics

Support Video Statistics such as Source/Destination Video Channels, Media Type, SSRC, Average Delay/Gap, Packet Counts, Codec Type, Missing Packets, Delay, Gap, Video Frame Count, Out Of Sequence count, Duplicate Packets count, Media Delivery Index (MDI- (Delay Factor : Media Loss Rate)), and Frame Rate are provided for each video session. PacketScan™ with Voice, Data, and Video QoS capability addresses customers long felt need of call quality analysis in IP networks.

Media Delivery Index (MDI) measurement is used as a diagnostic tool or as a quality indicator for monitoring a network intended to deliver applications such as streaming media, MPEG video, Voice over IP, or other information sensitive to arrival time and packet loss. Media Delivery Index (MDI) can be used to monitor both the quality of a delivered video stream and to show system margin for IPTV systems by giving an accurate measurement of jitter and delay at network level (Internet Protocol, IP), which are the real causes for quality loss. The Media Delivery Index is typically shown as two numbers separated by a colon the Delay Factor (DF) and the Media Loss Rate (MLR).

Call Summary – Signaling, Audio, and Video Parameters

Registration Summary

Packet Data Analysis is enhanced to display the SIP registration information in tabular as well as graphical format in Registration Summary. This interface displays the SIP registration information in a tabular format which includes user agent, registrar, registered time, status, time to live (TTL), expiry time, remaining time, Registration Request Delay (RRD) and Registration attempts for each user agent. In addition, it displays the active registration graph of the entire registration summary and provides the trace display of each registration.

Registration Summary

Include graphs that display the active registration and registration trace message sequences of registered calls at the bottom of the registration summary. The registration statistics display the count of the total, completed, failed, & active registrations along with registration and de-registration packet count.

Registration Active Graph

Registration Trace

VoIP Key Performance Indicators (KPI)s Report

KPI Report for SIP Calls

The SIP Call Summary KPI Report includes KPIs for the following: -

Call Success Ratio:
(graph depicting the counts and percentages of successful and unsuccessful calls.)

Calls Per Second:
(graph for Total Calls per second, Passed Calls per second, and Failed Calls per second.)

Post Dial-Delay Distribution
(graph for delay counts in milli seconds (0-250ms, 251-500ms etc.).)

Error Code Distribution
(graph for the Top 10 Call Failure Causes counts and percentage (%).)

Answer Seizure Ratio
(graph representing counts and percentages of Answered Calls and Unanswered Calls.)

Call Duration Distribution
(graph depicting call counts for different call duration values (e.g., 0-1 sec, 1-10 sec, and so on).)

KPI Report for SIP Registration

The SIP Registration Summary KPI Report includes KPIs for the following:

Register Messages per Session
(graph for the distribution of Register Requests)

Registrar(s) Distribution
(graph for the number of Registration sessions per Registrar.)

Registration(s) vs Deregistration(s)
(graph comparing the distribution of Register and Deregister counts with percentages (%).)

Registration(s) Over Time
(graph for Successful, Failed, and Total Attempts per second.)

Deregistration(s) Over Time
(graph for Successful and Total Attempts per second.)

Registration(s) - Deregistration(s) Over Time
(graph for overall Register & Deregister attempts, Register & Deregister passed, and Register & Deregister failed attempts per second.)

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Note: PCs which include GL hardware/software require Intel or AMD processors for compliance.

	Related Hardware
Item No.	Item Description
PKV100	PacketScan™ - (Online and Offline)
PKV101	PacketScan™ - Offline
PKV110	IMS Protocol Decodes (Optional with PacketScan™)
PKV107	LTE (Long Term Evolution) Analyzer (Optional with PacketScan™)
PKV108	Offline LTE (Long Term Evolution) Analyzer (Optional with PacketScan™)
PKV112	5G Analyzer (Optional with PacketScan™)
PKV113	Offline 5G Analyzer - Optional with PKV101 (offline PacketScan™) and PKV170 (NetsurveyorWeb™)
PKV105	SIGTRAN (Optional with PacketScan™)
PKV106	Offline SIGTRAN Analyzer (Optional with PacketScan™)
PKV103	IP Based GSM and UMTS Analyzer (Optional with PacketScan™)
PKV109	Offline IP Based GSM and UMTS Analyzer (Optional with PacketScan™)
PKV104	FaxScan™ for SIP and Fax over IP (T.38)
PKV400	TCP Analytics (Optional with PacketScan™)
PCD103	AMR Codec - Narrowband (requires additional license)
PCD104	EVRC Codec (requires additional license)
PCD105	EVRC-B Codec (requires additional license)
PCD106	EVRC-C Codec (requires additional license)
PCD107	AMR Codec - Wideband (requires additional license)
PCD108	Optional Codec - EVS (requires additional license)
PCD109	Optional Codec - Opus (requires additional license)
PKV120	PacketScan™ HD w/4 x 1GigE
PKV120p	PacketScan™ HD w/4 x 1GigE - Portable
PKV122	PacketScan™ HD w/2 x 10GigE
PKV123	PacketRecorder™ HD & PacketRePlay™ HD
PKV122p	PacketScan™ HD w/2 x 10 GigE - Portable
PKV124	PacketScan™ HD w/40/100 GigE
PKV124P	PacketScan™ HD w/40/100 GigE - Portable
PKV301	LAN Switch w/ Mirror Port Accessories Power Adapter (1)
	Related Software
PKS120	MAPS™ SIP Emulator
PKS102	RTP Soft Core for RTP Traffic Generation (additional)
PKV169	NetsurveyorWeb™ Lite - Probe Level WebServer, PacketScan™, and Oracle 11g Express Edition;
PKV170	NetsurveyorWeb™(Perpetual License, Unlimited Users/Nodes) – Includes Oracle 11g Standard Edition One and Standard Server-Grade Computing Platform
	Packet over IP CDR Analysis System
	Refer to CDR Buyer's Guide
	For T1 E1 Datacom
XX135	T1 or E1 MLPPP Analyzer
OLV135	Offline T1 or E1 MLPPP Analyzer
XX136	PPP and MLPPP Packet Analysis – Real-time Packet Voice, Video, and Fax Analysis
	For T3 E3
XX135	T3 / E3 PPP Analyzer (GUI)
XX136	PPP and MLPPP Packet Analysis – Real-time Packet Voice, Video, and Fax Analysis
	For OC3 OC12
LTS205 LTS215 LTS305 LTS315	Protocol Analysis for PoS OC3 / STM1 Packet Data Analysis (PDA) for PoS OC3 / STM1 Protocol Analysis for PoS OC12 / STM4 Packet Data Analysis (PDA) for PoS OC12 / STM4
LTS206 LTS216 LTS306 LTS316	Protocol Analysis UMTS OC3 / STM1 Packet Data Analysis (PDA) UMTS OC3 / STM1 Protocol Analysis UMTS OC12 / STM4 Packet Data Analysis (PDA) UMTS OC3 / STM1

Brochures
PacketScan™ Brochure
PacketScan™ 5G Protocol Analyzer Brochure
Packet Recorder and Playback for HD Network Traffic
PacketScan™ LTE Protocol Analyzer Brochure
PacketScan™ UMTS Protocol Analyzer Brochure
PacketScan™ SIGTRAN Protocol Analyzer Brochure
PacketScan™ GSM Protocol Analyzer Brochure
PacketScan™ GPRS Protocol Analyzer Brochure
PacketScan™ IMS Protocol Analyzer Brochure
TCP Analytics Brochure
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PacketScan™ Vs Wireshark
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Presentations
PacketScan™ 5G Protocol Analyzer Presentation
PacketScan™ Presentation
PacketScan™ HD Presentation
TCP Analytics Presentation

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