Ixia extends CloudLens Private with its MobileStack features

Ixia has announced that the company has extended the capabilities of CloudLens Private with Ixia’s MobileStack features. This software solution delivers visibility into subscriber traffic which enables mobile operators to assure the Quality of Service (QoS) for critical Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and data services in software-defined (SDN) and traditional networks.

Ixia has added MobileStack capabilities to CloudLens Private, which enables mobile operators to cost-effectively manage QoS for their subscribers by:

· Eliminating potential blind spots, by helping to ensure that all subscriber traffic from physical and virtual networks are delivered to QoS monitoring probes

· Effectively identifying and tracking mobile subscriber’s sessions, and load balancing to probes in a subscriber-aware fashion, allowing a monitoring infrastructure to scale as traffic increases

· Enabling operators to filter traffic based on type, such as VoLTE, subscriber identity, device, or geographic location

· Lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) of monitoring tools by offloading the correlation of GTP sessions, enabling these tools to focus on monitoring tasks

The capabilities of Ixia’s MobileStack application were initially offered as part of the company’s GTP Session Controller (GSC), to provide subscriber-aware visibility. GSC, currently deployed at mobile operators around the world, including a large US carrier, is capable of handling hundreds of Gigabits per second of throughput and tens of millions of subscribers.

Subscriber-aware end-to-end visibility

CloudLens Private with MobileStack delivers subscriber-aware end-to-end visibility across the mobile core network to improve mean time to repair (MTTR) by helping identify and pinpoint problems.

Unprecedented Scalability

CloudLens Private with MobileStack allows mobile operators to correlate traffic for a subscriber from multiple data and control plane interfaces, as they move within the mobile network, and load balance traffic from millions of subscribers to multiple monitoring probes in a subscriber-aware fashion

Reduced Cost of Ownership

CloudLens Private with MobileStack moves specialized session correlation to the visibility layer, allowing mobile operators to load balance traffic probes based on capacity.