Astellia has launched Neptune, its new generation of intelligent and high-capacity IP probing systems. The first release, Neptune for Gn, is designed to help operators monitor and optimize their mobile broadband networks and deal with the traffic surge.
Astellia says Neptune allows mobile operators to understand subscribers’ packet services usage & behavior; greatly improve user experience for multiple services with unique QoE KPIs; troubleshoot problems impacting subscribers; and optimize mobile network performance and QoS.
Dedicated to User Plane and service monitoring, Astellia says Neptune Gn complements its Ocean probing product line with increased capture and processing performance. The new platform performs data capture over 1GE or 10GE Ethernet links.
Neptune embeds a whole set of intelligent technologies such as innovative Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to classify data traffic and identify the various applications used for every session such as YouTube, Facebook and Skype; User Plane traffic and session summaries for usage analysis and fault management; and highly flexible User Plane targeting and sampling.
Astellia says this technology is essential to handle the increasing amount of data to be analyzed on PS networks and to help operators optimize monitoring investments. More importantly, Neptune will generate rich business intelligence used by multiple teams and applications such as Optimization, Customer Care, Supervision, Marketing and Management.
“Measuring and delivering the highest level of user experience applying differentiated QoS is one of our customers’ main challenges," said Frederic Vergine, CTO at Astellia. “With its cost-effective and scalable architecture, Neptune delivers both the power to capture and process a huge amount of data and the capability to perform in-depth service analysis."
